Lula approved the controversial bill easing environmental licensing rules, but struck down or altered 63 articles. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has …
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Maps offer hope to save threatened rainforest in Malaysian Borneo’s Sarawak | Environment News
Long Moh, Sarawak — William Tinggang throws a handful of fish food into a glass-clear river. A few seconds pass before movement under the …
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Bangkok, Thailand – A surge in rare earth mining in rebel-held pockets of Myanmar supplying Chinese processing plants is being blamed for toxic levels …
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101 East meets the conservationists in Indonesia bringing leopard sharks back from the brink of extinction. Leopard sharks were once abundant in the waters …
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Health
Plastic credits: A ‘false solution’ or the answer to global plastic waste? | Environment News
Each year, the world produces about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste – more than the combined weight of all the people on Earth. …
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‘It’s important work’ Back at the waste yard, business has died down for the day. Bamfo and her youngest children, Nkunim, 10, and Josephine, …
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NewsFeed Footage from a forest in Ghana’s Ashanti region showed smouldering wreckage from a helicopter crash that killed the country’s defence and environment ministers. …
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A helicopter crash has killed 8 people including the nation’s defence and environment ministers, according to Ghana’s government. Defence Minister Edward Omane Boamah and …
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Dangerous Mekong River pollution blamed on lawless mining in Myanmar | Environment News
Houayxay, Laos – Fishing went well today for Khon, a Laotian fisherman, who lives in a floating house built from plastic drums, scrap metal …
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NewsFeed German biathlete and two-time Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier was killed by falling rocks while scaling Laila Peak, a 6,094-meter summit in northern Pakistan. …
