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China’s trans-Amazon railway stokes forest fearsThe Amazon rainforest's importance to the climate cannot quench China's thirst for minerals and grain and its encroaching development, threatening the forests and the atmosphere. -
Rio’s green Olympics prove too paleBrazil proclaimed that it would be hosting Rio’s green Olympics. Despite some bright spots, the result was disappointing, our Brazil correspondent says.
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UN chief urges all to build on sustainable development effects of 2016 Olympic GamesCarbon & Climate
UN chief urges all to build on sustainable development effects of 2016 Olympic Games
The first-ever Olympic Games in Latin America, the Rio 2016 Olympics concluded yesterday with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon encouraging stakeholders “to secure and build on the sustainable development effects of the Games." -
Olympics begins amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous peopleOn the eve of the Olympic Games’ opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, indigenous leaders and human rights advocates highlighted the rising violence against indigenous people and environmental activists in Brazil.
Opinion
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Nature is priceless, which is why turning it into 'natural capital' is wrong– Can nature be quantified in monetary terms, and should it? Researchers argue that the phrase "natural capital" obscures the way capitalist growth undermines nature conservation itself. -
How we can make globalisation work for everyone– Opposition to globalisation is getting louder. Hernando de Soto, president of the Institute of Liberty and Democracy, analyses why and what it will take to keep global flows in motion. -
The world's carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness– Enforce protective legislation and halt destructive activities now, urge scientists. The loss of the wilderness is a blow against animals, indigenous peoples, and the fight against climate change.
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