Issue Aug 28-Sep 03 2024: Brazilian Ilan Cuperstein is the regional director for Latin America of C40, a global network of 96 cities that are joining forces to reduce their emissions and adapt to the environmental crisis facing the planet.
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Issue Aug 28-Sep 03 2024: After a group of Just Stop Oil activists received the longest sentence ever imposed for non-violent protests in the UK, the question of whether or not civil disobedience should be labeled as vandalism or seen as a citizen’s obligation to protest against laws that are unjust has come up.
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Issue Aug 21-27 2024: The Inter-American Development Bank found that only 5% of waste in Latin America is recycled. According to the Sistema de Información para la Gestión de Residuos Sólidos, 8.5 million tons of municipal waste are produced annually in Peru, but less than 80,000 tons of waste are “returned to the recycling chain.”
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Issue Aug 21-27 2024: The Colombian Attorney General has staged a judicial intervention in the Chiribiquete National Park to protect it against deforestation.
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Issue Aug 21-27 2024: The Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has condemned the landfill on the banks of the Marcos A. Cabral River in Nizao as an “ecological affront.”
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Issue Aug 14-20 2024: The matamata turtle (Chelus fimbriata) faces significant threats due to illegal trafficking in South America.
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Issue Aug 14-20 2024: Parque Nacional Natural Chiribiquete (Chiribiquete National Natural Park) is Colombia’s largest continental protected area, but also the most affected by deforestation, illicit crop growth, cattle ranching, and illegal roads.
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Issue Aug 14-20 2024: Forest fires which have besieged the department of Santa Cruz in Bolivia have also impacted livestock in the region, with more than 400,000 cattle affected, according to the president of the Federation of Santa Cruz Ranchers (FEGASACRUZ), Walter Ruiz.
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Issue Aug 07-13 2024: A recent study reveals that the world’s driest grasslands harbor a surprising diversity of plant traits, challenging the idea that harsh conditions reduce variability.
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Issue Aug 07-13 2024: On June 5, during a meeting in Oaxaca between federal agents and community leaders of Capulálpam de Méndez, a fire began near the border between the towns of Capulálpam de Méndez and Natividad.
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