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The recent approval by one of Brazil’s Legislative bodies of a bill restricting the use of precautionary measures by environmental agencies — including injunctions based on remote monitoring — is alarming. Richard Whitcombe/Shutterstock

Amazon deforestation is falling, but progress is stalling

The decline in deforestation is largely due to the strengthening of monitoring and control mechanisms, but this could be undermined by a bill that restricts environmental enforcement
Researchers found the impacts of intensive mobile phone usage are more acute in Indigenous communities that have had no gradual acclimation to the technology.

Indigenous digital colonisation: How the internet is affecting the lives of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon

While technology can promote inclusion and access to information, it can also lead to dependency and affect the cultural identity of indigenous communities.
An Indigenous man with a phrase in Portuguese painted on his back that translates to “Mining Kills,” participates in a protest against the increase of mining activities that are encroaching on his land, in front of the Ministry of Mines and Energy in Brasilia, Brazil, in 2022. AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

Illegal gold mining causes surges in malaria in the Amazon, and the association is far worse than we suspected

An increase of just 0.03% in illegal gold mining is associated with a 20 to 46% increase in the local incidence of malaria in Yanomami lands in the Brazilian Amazon.
A scene taken from the French film l’Histoire de Souleymane about an asylum-seeking delivery worker is food for thought: behind the convenience of ordering food and other goods to your door lies a far murkier reality; for many delivery platform workers precarity is part and parcel of their daily grind. Pyramide Distribution

Delivery platform workers: a survey lifts the lid on extreme hardship

An unprecedented occupational health study on takeaway delivery workers in France reveals shocking working conditions amid Europe-wide debate on their entitlement to standard employee rights.
SpaceX is among the many companies that hope their initial public offerings take off. AP Photo/John Raoux

SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs are unlikely to bring skyrocketing returns that Amazon and Apple did, as companies go public later in life and early investors cash out

In the old days, companies like Apple and Amazon went public early to access cash to grow. These days, soon-to-be-public companies are already flush with cash from private finance.
The Cerrado biome, native to south-central Brazil, is visibly losing territory to agribusiness: deforestation rates remain high, amid a preservationist discourse fraught with contradictions, which in practice continues to encourage large-scale agricultural production. Foto: Adriano Gambarini / WWF Brasil/ Divulgação

Between ‘breadbasket of the world’ and ‘guardian of the Amazon’, Brazil remains unable to solve its environmental dilemma

Between rhetoric and practice, the country faces contradictions that today fuel hunger, accelerate deforestation and undermine our climate future.

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