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Truly global insight where current affairs meet development, health, planet. Navigating the media, disrupting North-centric views. By @anita_makri

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Tnx @anita_makri @worldwiseview for including my take on the role of health in #COP28 Next year, we must not just be a series of side events, but be inside the negotiations, because the health of both planet & its people are at stake! #PlanetaryHealth🌏 worldwise.substack.com/p/hea… – at Cape Town, South Africa
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Peruvian rainforest defender from embattled Kichwa tribe shot dead in river attack. apne.ws/XjWp6R7
Peruvian rainforest defender from embattled Kichwa tribe shot dead in river attack

Peruvian rainforest defender from embattled Kichwa tribe shot dead in river attack

A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that’s seen high tension between Indigenous people and illegal loggers.

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Amy Fallon@amyfallon4 Dec 2023
Why a performing arts center was built in Africa’s largest refugee camp devex.com/news/why-a-perform… #Uganda #refugees #withrefugees
Why a performing arts center was built in Africa’s largest refugee camp

Why a performing arts center was built in Africa’s largest refugee camp

Project coordinators hope that the first state-of-the-art performance center in a refugee camp will help to provide residents with "a life that is full of enjoyment and create a holistic approach to...

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ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America. My report on the referendum in Venezuela on the Essequibo region and on @exxonmobil’s divide and conquer strategy in South America: peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/…
ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America : Peoples Dispatch

ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America : Peoples Dispatch

It is clear that the Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 in a referendum on the Essequibo region saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict...

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Woody biomass has been touted as a green alternative to fossil fuels, but reality is different. Read ME's 2-part series exposing the greenwashing side of woody biomass: Part 1: mekongeye.com/2023/11/19/vie… Part 2: mekongeye.com/2023/11/19/aca… Story: Vo Kieu Bao Uyen Visuals: Thanh Nguyen
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2023 will be Earth’s hottest year in human history, WMO report confirms - ⁦@ssdance⁩ washingtonpost.com/weather/2…
This year will be Earth’s hottest in human history, report confirms

This year will be Earth’s hottest in human history, report confirms

This year will break a record set in 2016, underscoring that the world is closer than ever to the global warming thresholds global leaders are seeking to avoid.

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In Nairobi, skateboarding provides an alternative space where consumption is not a prerequisite for entry. africasacountry.com/2023/11/…
Nairobi’s third places

Nairobi’s third places

In Nairobi, skateboarding provides an alternative space where consumption is not a prerequisite for entry.

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"The mixture of the extreme poverty in the regions where the fruit grows and the architecture of the tree itself — it rises tall and thin — means that the harvesters who scamper up the stalks to pick it are often young children." @washingtonpost ow.ly/8Bsh50Q9vIM
Brazil reckons with dark side of açaí: Rampant, dangerous child labor

Brazil reckons with dark side of açaí: Rampant, dangerous child labor

After a Washington Post report drew international attention, authorities are investigating the industry. They’ve documented paralysis, spinal and skeletal injuries and venomous snake bites.

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View from my balcony in September vs November. Wrote about why this happens and why we’re not able to stop it. @WIRED #DelhiSmog wired.com/story/delhi-smog-a…
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What does the four-day pause in fighting in Gaza mean for aid efforts into the enclave, where 70% of people have been forced from their homes, and many are on the brink of starvation? Mourad Hijazi reports for @newhumanitarian. Read here ⬇️ buff.ly/40OR4BA
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How Europe’s largest wildfire this summer in Greece got blamed on people on the move - when climate disinformation and misinformation fuses with climate change and migration - our piece with @g_christides & 📷 Alexandros Avramidis. theguardian.com/global-devel…
‘Fire on fire’: how migrants got blamed for Greece’s devastating blazes

‘Fire on fire’: how migrants got blamed for Greece’s devastating blazes

In August, wildfires in Evros killed a group of people, including children, passing along a well-trodden migration route. Locals and politicians made the victims scapegoats for the disaster

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Indigenous peoples bear both the weight of climate change’s impacts and carry knowledge that may help lessen its burden, according to the new National Climate Assessment published Tuesday grist.org/indigenous/us-clim…
New US climate report says land theft and colonization amplify the climate crisis for Indigenous...

New US climate report says land theft and colonization amplify the climate crisis for Indigenous...

The report concludes that Indigenous self-determination is a key climate solution — if the federal government can get behind it.

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#Africa’s lack of weather stations is costing lives US + EU (population: 1.1 billion) Weather stations: 636 Africa (population 1.2 billion) Weather stations: 37 africanarguments.org/2023/11…
Without warning: Africa's lack of weather stations is costing lives | African Arguments

Without warning: Africa's lack of weather stations is costing lives | African Arguments

A scarcity of weather stations in Africa means millions cannot be alerted about impending extreme weather events. 

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Audiences who follow climate news every week are more likely to think people are affected by climate change now This is one of the findings of a report by @waqasejazch @MitaliLive @richrdfletcher with data from 🇧🇷🇮🇳🇵🇰🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪 #COP28 reutersinstitute.politics.ox… 🧵10 charts below
An analysis of climate change news audiences in eight countries. A new report from the Reuters Institute

ALT An analysis of climate change news audiences in eight countries. A new report from the Reuters Institute

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In part because of climate change, two decades of progress against malaria is being eroded. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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This is a story about people in flood-drenched South Sudan, who have been surviving by eating water lilies for multiple years. It is also a story about our global disaster response system, which can’t keep up with the pace of extreme climate events. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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A 9-year-old girl, the youngest in a family of five, is forced to run when her village is shelled by soldiers. It’s an unimaginable experience that upends her life. Then it happens again. And again. Ten times in two years. Don’t look away from Myanmar: washingtonpost.com/world/202…
How Myanmar’s unrelenting airstrikes chase families from camp to camp

How Myanmar’s unrelenting airstrikes chase families from camp to camp

Thandar Soe, 11, had fled attacks nine times in the two years since the Myanmar military seized control in a coup. Then, in July, her latest camp was struck.

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#Dakop stories will touch #Dubai? #Kalabagi village of Dakop near the #Sundarbans of #Bangladesh which has been almost lost in repeated cyclones. Villager Bakul Sardar was telling me — 'where do we go now?' I wrote this story about Kalabagi village. en.gaonconnection.com/the-ha…
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Latest work for @business: Brazil Is Embracing the Migrant Crisis That Everyone Else Wants to Avoid. @andrewrosati and I visited Venezuelan migrants and refugees rebuilding their lives in Southern Brazil while working at the world’s largest meat supplier. bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…
Brazil Offers Venezuelans Jobs in Growing Migrant Crisis

Brazil Offers Venezuelans Jobs in Growing Migrant Crisis

Latin America’s largest economy is linking newcomers with jobs, while its neighbors and the US struggle with a migration surge that shows no signs of slowing.

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Inside the academic "condemnation games." Who will you condemn: Hamas, Israel, or both? Fraught question for Jacob Hanna, stem-cell star who is Israeli citizen, but Palestinian too. technologyreview.com/2023/10…
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