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Amazon rainforest-based journalist. Founder @Sumaumajornal and @Amazon_RJF Global environment writer @Guardian [email protected]

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TikTok is part of China’s cognitive warfare campaign | Nita Farahany theguardian.com/commentisfree/… fascinating but overly focussed on China. Surely Russia and USA also exploring this.

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'Federal Police agents & Ibama inspectors managed to destroy three dredgers used in illegal mining on the Jandiatuba River, reported to Globo by indigenist Bruno Pereira on his last mission, weeks before disappearing with English journalist Dom Phillips.'oglobo.globo.com/brasil/noticia…

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Families of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira decry ‘shameful’ trial delays theguardian.com/world/2023/mar… lamentable story. By Tom Phillips

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Michael Lodge, the British head of the International Seabed Authority, has been criticised by diplomats for lacking neutrality and for pushing business interests that want to accelerate the start of deep-sea mining. theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Damning in multiple ways. When a culture of “impartiality” is placed above a goal of truth, news agendas will always be manipulated by politics. Explains so much about BBC coverage of Brexit and climate. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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20 years after the disastrous Iraq War, as the UK plan to send refugees to Rwanda and stop small boats with desperate people crossing the Channel, little account is taken of the role we played in creating this crisis in the first place.

20 years after the disastrous Iraq War, as the UK plan to send refugees to Rwanda and stop small boats with desperate people crossing the Channel, little account is taken of the role we played in creating this crisis in the first place.
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10 key quotes from the IPPC report

1. “There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all”

> What is at stake? – everything

theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Tell me this isn’t the best “traffic” you’ve ever seen. A school “bike bus” planned each Friday in Barcelona a few years back, grew from an initial 5 kids when it started. Safety in numbers — do you think you could do this in your city? Via Lluís Juncà

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Two new species of yeast named after Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips theguardian.com/world/2023/mar… Lovely tribute by the biologist and fine report by Andrew Downie

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Taxpayers paid for this UK trip to Rwanda migrant processing camps but Suella Braverman played favourites with invites. BBC & Guardian excluded, presumably because they report as critical journalists rather than cheerleaders. theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

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This is an essential point. A forest is not just measured by the number of trees. And one new sapling is definitely not an equivalent nature offset to one established tree.

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My mother, the troll: ‘I think she lost sight of the McCanns’ humanity’. Superb read by ⁦Simon Hattenstone⁩ on the making of an online abuser and the dangerous cocktail of secret lives and toxic social media. theguardian.com/society/2023/m…

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Give old trees same protection as heritage buildings, say campaigners theguardian.com/environment/20… Very sensible idea. What happened in Plymouth was criminal.

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Side thought: this has pretty big ramifications for, say, the influence of the Daily Mail on the general election after next...

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