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15 January 2021
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Bilionário do ramo de tecnologia, ele é dono de 97 mil hectares, distribuídos em 18 dos 50 estados americanos
Se você está lendo esta matéria em um computador, a chance de estar usando o sistema Windows, desenvolvido pelo norte-americano Bill Gates, é de quase 90%, segundo…
17 December 2020
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O INCRA e o Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia reconheceram que o fundo de pensão da empresa estadunidense TIAA e o fundo de investimentos da Universidade de Harvard adquiriram ilegalmente centenas de milhares de hectares de terras no Cerrado. As decisões emitidas pelo…
21 May 2020
Um número crescente de proprietários de imóveis está pedindo sexo em troca de um teto aos inquilinos
LONDRES (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Um número crescente de proprietários de imóveis está pedindo sexo em troca de um teto aos inquilinos agora que os isolamentos do coronavírus e a perda de…
4 February 2020
Temperatures in Idaho’s Columbia, Snake, and Salmon rivers were so warm in 2015 that they cooked millions of salmon and steelhead to death. As climate change leads to consistently warmer temperatures and lower river flows, researchers expect that fish kills like this will become much more common.…
18 November 2019
Em todo o mundo, as comunidades estão lutando para defender suas terras, ar, água, florestas e seus meios de subsistência de projetos prejudiciais e atividades extrativistas com fortes impactos ambientais e sociais: mineração, represas, plantações de árvores, fracking, queima de gás, incineradores…
17 November 2019
This topic will be discussed at the Global Landscapes Forum Luxembourg on 30 November.
With carbon-absorbing tropical forests vital to limiting global warming, California has approved a new carbon offset standard aimed at keeping such forests in place. The Standard is the latest initiative from…
4 October 2019
Protecting land from development provides numerous ecological and social benefits, but many people debate whether it hurts or helps local economies. Some worry that land protection will inhibit economic growth by restricting local resource use or building opportunities. Others counter that land…
3 October 2019
About 7 miles outside of Albany, Ga., Shirley Sherrod stands on a dock overlooking a tranquil pond, Spanish moss-draped Bald Cypress trees reflecting on the still green water.
"They're resilient whether you're in a drought or whether you are in a flood. They last. And that's the way we feel we are…
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26 September 2019
She’d lived on this historically black D.C. block for 40 years. Now the city she knew was vanishing, and so was her place in it.
She was moving slowly, but she needed to speed up. Her blue sandals clicked on the hardwood floor, echoing off the empty green walls of the two-bedroom rent-controlled…
11 September 2019
The state’s high cost of living and tourism-focused development is making it difficult for some Native Hawaiians to keep their homes.
Joddy ʻIwalani Manuwai and her family will lose their ancestral home in Kailua, on the island of O’ahu in Hawaiʻi, if they don’t raise $1 million to buy back land…
26 July 2019
Women and non-binary people are running some of the best-known organic farms on Long Island, in what is a growing, $50 billion industry nationwide
AMAGANSETT, N.Y., (Reuters) - Sporting a backwards gray cap, studded earrings and a thin, head-to-toe layer of dirt, Layton Guenther took a break from…
15 July 2019
A conservation group has purchased almost 400 square miles of land in a project that could offer a new model to protect natural environments
WASHINGTON - Private investors have backed what supporters say is one of the largest conservation acquisitions ever in the eastern United States, offering a…