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• ‘The Earth is crying out for help’: as fires decimate South America, smoke shrouds its skies

  02-10-2024 15:00
  
  Huge tracts of land have burned from largely man-made blazes in Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Brazil and other countries, with people suffocating from its fallout“Blue, our sky is forever blue!” effuses the official anthem of Rondônia, a UK-sized chunk of the Amazon in the western reaches of Brazil. But the “pure crystalline” heavens celebrated by those lyrics have vanished in recent months.Huge tracts of South America have been blanketed in smoke from largely man-made w
  
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• Maya and the Wave review – the sea is not the only risk for female big-wave surfer

  02-10-2024 12:00
  
  Documentary about Maya Gabeira’s record-breaking feats almost accidentally tells a story too about the endemic sexism in sportThis film is ostensibly about Maya Gabeira, a Brazilian competitive big-wave surfer (ie towed on special boards into waves of 20ft and over), and her struggle to compete again after a devastating injury in 2013. And yes, it certainly is about her, but it’s almost as if everyone involved – Gabeira, people who were supposedly her closest associates, and ev
  
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