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Mississippi tornadoes March 2023

‘Everything is gone’: loss and destruction in a small Mississippi town

Before the tornado, Sidney Alexander Street in Rolling Fork was filled trees, mobile homes and small ranch houses. Now, little is recognizable.
Mexico’s Tren Maya railroad project
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A ‘rights of nature’ fact-finding panel to investigate Mexico’s Tren Maya railroad for possible environmental violations

Mexico’s president has made the railroad a top economic development and national security priority, but environmental activists say it harms Indigenous communities and does irreparable damage to sensitive ecosystems.

Landless movement leader assassinated in Brazilian Amazon
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Landless movement leader assassinated in Brazilian Amazon

Interviewed by Mongabay in 2016, Aluisio Sampaio is the most recent victim in a growing wave of Amazon violence against socio-environmental activists.
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