My article for The Ecologist: Where police are paid to kill. Police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be paid bonuses for killing suspects. Aimed at organized crime, the law will hit ethnic minorities - and eco-activists. theecologist.org/2025/oct/07/wh…

Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation. phys.org/news/2025-10-a…

We’ve lost our sense of belonging to the world we live in. Every war and irrational act of violence, every forest cut down, every poisoned river is a reflection of how far we’ve drifted from nature and ourselves! This isn’t just the planet dying, it’s us, disappearing with it!

Zack Goldsmith: “There’s no sign currently that the UK will back President Lula’s groundbreaking plan to reverse destruction of the world’s great tropical forest basins, even though it was constructed with much UK input.” Groundbreaking plan? Seriously? theguardian.com/environment/20…

While claiming to lead on climate, Lula’s gov is pushing for oil exploration in the Amazon’s Equatorial Margin, rebuilding BR-319 (which would slice through untouched rainforest), & advancing mining & dam projects that threaten Indigenous lands and biodiversity!

BREAKING! “Ceasefire”, in Israel’s dictionary: you cease, I fire. Just hours after the deal - as in January - Israel shoots at Palestinians waiting to return home. Before any next step, member states must ensure that Israel honours the ceasefire.

Disease is catastrophically reshaping the planet’s most protected landscapes. By me for Canary thecanary.co/global/world-a…

Disease is catastrophically reshaping the planet's most protected landscapes A new report from the IUCN warns that the next great biodiversity crisis may already be underway, as wildlife diseases spread quickly. Monica Piccinini reports: thecanary.co/global/world-a…

🚨CROWFUNDER🚨 Palestinian Canary journalist Alaa Shamali's (Alaa Shamaly) family fundraiser aims to get his five children ages 6 to 15 safely out of Gaza thecanary.co/global/world-a…

May the memory of the 250 journalists murdered in Gaza be honored in the **Genocide Museum** that must be part of the reparations program owed to the Palestinians, when the genocide actually ends. PS. Deleting a killed journalist's account is to kill them twice.

New York Climate Week session “Solar Geoengineering: The Case for an International Non-Use Agreement”. youtu.be/z2htTR9SyE8?fe…

Some of the world’s biggest financial institutions, including Vanguard, JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, BNP Paribas & HSBC, have reaped billions through investments, loans & issuance underwriting services provided to 50 companies accused of forest destruction. globalwitness.org/en/press-relea…

Brazil: Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, the state that will hold the COP30 climate summit this year. hrw.org/news/2025/10/1…

Uruguay’s senate passed a law decriminalising euthanasia, putting the South American nation among a handful of other countries where seriously ill patients can legally obtain help to end their lives. britannica.com/news/555844/07…

Italy, Japan & India join Brazil to 4x global “sustainable” fuel output by 2035. The IEA calls it feasible. We call it greenwashing. Biofuels aren’t sustainable, they’re a false solution! argusmedia.com/en/news-and-in…

Forests collapsing, bats dying, apes infected—the planet is running a fever. Habitat loss and climate change are creating a perfect storm of pathogens. Like COVID, humanity will treat it as fiction until it becomes the headline.

Ahead of COP30, climate skeptics misuse study on Amazon forests. Climate skeptics are targeting new research on the Amazon to downplay global warming's impact. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.78…