How corporations, pension funds, and other financial actors are driving land dispossession in Brazil Many people in cities across Europe and North America might be familiar with real estate speculation...
A fragrant flower worn at weddings, sold in city streets, and celebrated in song is becoming another casualty of Yemen’s overlapping crises. Across Yemen, Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac) is more...
With the rise of electric vehicles, Norwegians are ever less dependent on petrol stations. The country’s main newspaper takes a trip down memory highway. There was a time when Norway’s...
For a moment the global quinoa boom enriched Bolivian farmers before collapsing into overproduction, environmental damage, and economic hardship For thousands of years, wind has carried salt from the Bolivian...
How poaching, monopolies, and institutional failure are emptying Europe’s largest wetland If you walk along one of the small ports in the villages of the Danube Delta, you might still...
How a global green boom is rearranging lives, land and power In this sweeping investigation for Mongabay, journalist Irfan Maulana traces the human cost and political stakes of Indonesia’s nickel rush,...
As global tech giants shed jobs and AI transforms workflows, India’s IT industry faces a historic reckoning India’s once unshakeable IT industry, the country’s largest private employer and a backbone...
How climate change erodes languages alongside landscapes In a report we came across in Agência Pública, journalist Julia Webster Ayuso (republished from Noema Magazine) investigates how climate change is not only devastating...
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