Rainforest Politics in Brazil and Congo

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazil are home to the world’s biggest rainforests. Their challenges are similar, but on climate they are pursuing divergent paths. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/climate/rainforest-brazil-congo.html

Supporting the Indigenous economy in Putumayo, Colombia

Published by the World Wildlife Fund Miguel Chasoy, a young Inga-Kamëntšá Indigenous man living in Putumayo, Colombia, started a business as an artisan and received a grant for financial and technical support. Read the full article at: https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/supporting-the-indigenous-economy-in-putumayo-colombia

The War for the Rainforest

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Set aside for an isolated Indigenous group, the Brazilian preserve Ituna-Itatá has now been heavily deforested — a grim illustration of the intractable forces destroying the Amazon. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/magazine/amazon-rainforest-ituna-itata.html

Ukraine War Ushers In ‘New Era’ for Biden and U.S. Abroad

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment President Biden is rethinking relationships with allies as well as rivals — including China, Iran and Venezuela — to counter President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/us/politics/biden-ukraine-diplomacy.html

Biden Administration Cancels Mining Leases Near Wilderness Area

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The leases, reinstated during the Trump years, would have allowed a Chilean mining conglomerate to dig for copper and nickel near the Boundary Waters wilderness in Minnesota. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/climate/boundary-waters-copper-mining.html

Mining of Lithium, Key to the Climate Fight, Faces New Scrutiny in Chile

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Politicians have called for a pause in new mining contracts for lithium, which is in high demand for electric car batteries but is at the heart of a debate in Chile over mines, water rights and inequality. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/climate/lithium-chile.html

Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Chile has lots of lithium, which is essential to the world’s transition to green energy. But anger over powerful mining interests, a water crisis and inequality has driven Chile to rethink how it defines itself. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/climate/chile-constitution-climate-change.html

Chile, una nueva Constitución y el cambio climático

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Chile tiene grandes reservas de litio que son esenciales para la transición del mundo a la energía verde. Pero el descontento por los poderosos intereses mineros, la desigualdad y la crisis del agua han hecho que el país empiece a repensarse. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/es/2021/12/28/espanol/chile-consitucion-cambio-climatico.html

Brazil Flooding Kills at Least 20 and Displaces Thousands

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In northeast Brazil, local officials say they have never before seen flooding on this scale. Tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/world/americas/brazil-floods-climate-change.html

Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Chile has lots of lithium, which is essential to the world’s transition to green energy. But anger over powerful mining interests, a water crisis and inequality has driven Chile to rethink how it defines itself. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/climate/chile-constitution-lithium-water-climate.html

A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Brazil’s northeast, long a victim of droughts, is now effectively turning into a desert. The cause? Climate change and the landowners who are most affected. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/world/americas/brazil-climate-change-barren-land.html

Amazon Deforestation Soars to 15-Year High

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Brazil committed this month to end illegal deforestation in eight years, but a government report raises questions about its intent and ability to meet that target. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/world/americas/brazil-amazon-deforestation.html

1 2 3 4 5 17
top