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• Indigenous Amazonians urge Brazil to declare emergency over severe drought

  10-10-2023 21:19
  
  Drought and heatwave has killed fish in rivers as Indigenous group Apiam says villagers have no water, food or medicineIndigenous people in the Amazon are calling on the Brazilian government to declare a climate emergency as their villages have no drinking water, food or medicine due to a severe drought that is drying up rivers vital for travel in the rainforest.The drought and heatwave has killed masses of fish in the rivers that Indigenous people live off and the water in the muddy streams and
  
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• Human emissions made deadly South American heat 100 times more likely

  10-10-2023 17:44
  
  Rapid research shows climate crisis by far main cause of unseasonable temperatures in southern winter and early springThe deadly heat in central South America over the past two months was made 100 times more likely by human emissions that disrupted the climate, scientists have shown.Temperatures have exceeded 40C in late winter and early spring in the southern hemisphere, affecting millions and leading to heat-related deaths. Continue reading...
  
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• Brazil is taking a new direction after Bolsonaro – but will Britain take note? | Richard Bourne

  10-10-2023 11:30
  
  Much has changed already under Lula da Silva’s presidency, but this vast country does not receive the attention it deservesBritish interest in Latin America, and its biggest country, Brazil, has been disgracefully fitful. It woke up when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly beat Jair Bolsonaro, the disastrous tree-felling extreme rightist, last October. It even caused the BBC to lead its morning news bulletin in January, when a mob inspired by Bolsonaro and the example of the Capitol
  
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• The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail?

  10-10-2023 06:00
  
  From Brazil to Egypt, Turkey to Hong Kong, the 2010s saw a series of huge public uprisings. Yet many of them led to the opposite of what they asked for. I spoke to more than 200 participants across 10 countries to find out whyIn the decade from 2010 to 2020, humanity witnessed an explosion of mass protests that seemed to herald profound changes. These protests started in Tunisia and erupted across the Arab world, before huge demonstrations also rocked countries like Turkey, Brazil, Ukraine and H
  
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