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Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should veto a bill that dismantles environmental licensing and poses serious ...

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Mercury, a powerful neurotoxin banned or tightly restricted in many countries, remains essential to the process used by ...

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A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet.

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Demonstration marks the release of a political declaration by the "Mutirão dos Povos," a coalition of Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, and social movements from across the Amazon ...