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Amazonia violence against environmental defenders

Attorney keeps alive legacy of murdered Pará activists, despite death threats

Ten years after the murder of community leaders Zé Claudio da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo, attorney Claudelice dos Santos formally created an institute named after her brother and sister-in-law to support families at risk because of their social-environmental activism in Amazonia.

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Indigenous Brazilians demand justice as 3 killed in escalating violence

Indigenous groups in Brazil are demanding justice after a spate of killings allegedly linked to land disputes left three people dead and two injured in the space of just two days, and raised concerns about escalating violence against native peoples throughout the country.

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Environmental assassinations bad for business, new research shows

Financial markets respond swiftly and definitively when multinationals are publicly named in connection with the assassination of an environmental defender.

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‘Guardian of the Forest’ ambushed and murdered in Brazilian Amazon

An indigenous Guajajara leader was reported murdered by loggers Friday, adding to rising violence occurring against forest protectors under the Jair Bolsonaro government.

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Suspicions of murder in death of Indonesian environmental activist

Golfrid Siregar, an environmental activist at a local chapter of Indonesia's largest green NGO, died this week under suspicious circumstances.

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Latin America saw most murdered environmental defenders in 2018

Eighty-three of the 164 environmental defenders killed around the world in 2018 were from Latin America.

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Criminalization and violence increasingly used to silence indigenous protest, according to UN report

After the Seko indigenous peoples of Indonesia rejected a plan to build a hydropower plant on their traditional lands in the province of South Sulawesi, the company behind the plant and the local government responded with intimidation and violence.

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Attorney keeps alive legacy of murdered Pará activists, despite death threats

Environmental assassinations bad for business, new research shows

Suspicions of murder in death of Indonesian environmental activist

Latin America saw most murdered environmental defenders in 2018

Criminalization and violence increasingly used to silence indigenous protest, according to UN report

Coal stockpiles strain US power sector as demand wanes

Bogotá faces water rationing

Wisconsin oil spill fuels doubts over Enbridge’s pipeline safety

Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

Cyclone devastates Mayotte