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carlosrittl.bsky.social
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Pope Francis leaves behind a legacy of compassion, courage, and a continuing call to protect our common home and all who share it with us. In his 2023 exhortation, Laudato Deum, he spoke out strongly against those who reject what science tells us about climate and deny their own responsibility. 🧵

iclnoticias.com.br/pecuaristas-... Relatos revelam ser comum a adulteração de documentos para fornecer à JBS bois criados em áreas desmatadas.

Hugely proud of @scientistsx.bsky.social on the launch of their new book #ScientistsOnSurvival Personal Stories of Climate Action. This is a deeply moving and inspiring book that everyone needs to read -every chapter left me in tears or with goosebumps. Read more: www.scientistsforxr.earth/our-book

Militantes do MST são atropelados durante marcha pela reforma agrária Um dos militantes do MST está em estado grave e foi imediatamente socorrido e levado para uma unidade hospitalar curt.link/fCImf

Assinem. Sign it. Skriv under. Firmem. S'abonner. Abonnieren. Iscriviti.

Sim está ficando cada vez mais comum o agronegócio contratando grupos de homens armados para revolucionar os integrantes do MST, inclusive com relatos de revolução de mulheres e crianças.

‘Não vamos continuar enterrando os nossos’: desabafo sobre a violência policial contra imigrantes negros. almapreta.com.br/sessao/cotid...

www.proximate.press/latest-stori... “So our grants may be smaller by large funders standards, but they are the right size to bring excluded communities out of total invisibility — the very people who are keeping the sky from falling, like our great shaman David Yanomami explains.”

🌍 Anyone, from anywhere in the world, can sign our petition to support the repatriation of the Irritator fossil to Brazil. Let’s unite against colonial science. Your support matters! ✊🦖 #IrritatorBelongstoBR #DecolonizeScience ⚒️🧪 chng.it/Jm99Rsrw44

“É óbvio que o Jair não se importa nem com o “popcorn”, nem com o “ice cream”, mas sim com o “condensed milk” que ele prefere continuar tomando em casa e não na cadeia.” Ouça agora no Foro de Teresina: piaui.co/42jTsCZ

infoamazonia.org/en/2025/04/0... Guyana’s rapid ascent to major oil producer status, fueled by the giant US oil company, has come at a steep price: rising inequality, weakened environmental regulations, unchecked gas flaring, and growing foreign influence.

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

umsoplaneta.globo.com/clima/notici... Durante o Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL), em Brasília, lideranças indígenas do Brasil, Pacífico e Canadá entregaram à presidência da COP30 uma carta demandando o fim da era dos combustíveis fósseis e a implementação de uma transição energética justa e equitativa.

Gray whales are dying again off the Pacific Coast. Climate change may be to blame

www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h... “We propose a new forward-looking measure for calculating regional and national responsibility for climate overshoot: “net-zero carbon debt”.

More States must join the Hague Group, a bloc of states that is coordinating efforts to ensure accountability for Israeli breaches of international law and uphold decisions by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Friends: a short thread on data centres + general rising power demand, based off the amazing new @ember-energy.org Global Electricity Review 2025, out today (as always: THANKYOU Ember for making all the data freely available, it is very invaluable to ppl like me) ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... An extreme heatwave in central Asia last month was made at least 4C hotter due to the climate crisis and could have been up to 10C warmer than in a preindustrial climate, researchers said.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Europe experienced its warmest March since records began, as climate change continues to push temperatures to unprecedented levels, European Union scientists said on Tuesday.

Bom dia ☀️ 🏹 Começou o maior acampamento indígena do Brasil, reunindo mais de 6 a 9 mil indígenas de todas as regiões do país. É um espaço de resistência e diálogo, onde são debatidos temas essenciais para garantir os direitos constitucionais dos povos originários. #ATL2025 #ApibSomosTodosNós

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... “Trump's tariffs won't slow the transition to renewables, they'll only hurt ordinary people, particularly Americans," Andreas Sieber, associate director of policy and campaigns at 350.org, told The Independent.”

www.politico.eu/article/eu-d... Asked whether the 90 percent target itself was under threat, Hoekstra would only say that it remained the Commission’s “starting point” and that he was “optimistic” that it would remain the final target.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer - Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.mtdemocrat.com/news/burning... "...After 100-plus years of fire suppression and loss of most of the old trees on our landscapes, it is reckless and short-sighted to think that mere protection of old growth in fire-prone landscapes will conserve it...”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... As governments fight to regulate access to materials important for many technologies, the people mining them are left behind.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "The North Dakota case is so deeply flawed – at its core, the trial was really about crushing dissent – that I believe there is a good chance it will be reversed on appeal and ultimately backfire against the Energy Transfer pipeline company."

Our new book, The New Economic Nationalism, will be launched on April 16th during the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings. Details on the event are forthcoming. Meanwhile, check out the book contents here: @piie.com @adamposen.bsky.social www.piie.com/bookstore/20...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Biodiversity and environment reporter @patrickgreenfield.bsky.social explains how a loophole in the 2015 Paris climate agreement allows countries to cheat their net zero targets through creative accounting, and how scientists want us to fix it

The IMO negotiations are about to resume. What's at stake? At first sight, it's levy vs a credit trading scheme, but in reality it's about climate ambition for the sector, (in)stability for the industry & how to ensure no one is left behind. www.shippingandoceans.com/post/uncerta...

NIH nixing SARS-CoV-2 and climate change research amongst so much more. No worries 🤦‍♂️

Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors. As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim: www.theclimatebrink....

📰Diretor palestino de documentário vencedor do Oscar é linchado e preso em Israel Segundo uma agência de notícias americana, um grupo de 10 a 20 israelenses mascarados atacou Ballal e outros ativistas judeus com pedras e bastões

Even 'safe' #climate scenarios may overshoot 2°C warming: New PIK study shows feedback loops like #permafrost thaw could amplify global heating throughout this millennium. Paris agreement only possible with very low emissions + low climate sensitivity. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

My latest for Substack: Law firms, universities and members of the media are bending the knee. Where does this epidemic of acquiescence end? open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

POVO PATAXÓ E PATAXÓ HÃHÃHÃE SOB ATAQUE DA PM E MILÍCIAS NO SUL DA BA Hoje, manhã de 20/03, indígenas foram presos e alguns encontram-se feridos por balas. Segundo relato de pessoas que estão no local, a polícia em ação conjunta com milícias, e está à procura de lideranças, de carro e helicópteros.

A PM da Bahia sempre envolvida nos ataques aos indígenas promovidos pelas milícias dos fazendeiros. Até quando o governador @jeronimorodrigues.bsky.social continuará conivente com fazendeiros criminosos? @pt.org.br #indigenous #Brazil www.instagram.com/teiadospovos...

Toda a minha solidariedade à Ministra @marinasilva.bsky.social pelo discurso violento e abjeto do senador Plinio Valério contra ela. É inaceitável que um parlamentar haja desta forma e que este fato seja tratado apenas como um "discurso infeliz" por parte do presidente do senado.

🔸A Abraji repudia e vê com extrema preocupação as graves ameaças endereçadas ao jornalista Paulo Motoryn, do Intercept Brasil, por causa da publicação de uma reportagem a respeito de um foragido dos atos de 8 de Janeiro, localizado pelo profissional na Argentina ➡️ 👋 Post com #textoalternativo

🔥 🔜 happening today! launch of the legal commentary to the Maastricht Principles on the Human Rights of Future Generations. ➡️ Join us online or in person in Geneva. Details 👇

news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 16 died in Mozambique and one in Madagascar after Cyclone Jude pivoted through the region last week. At least 400,000 people were affected across Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi.

www.euractiv.com/section/eet/... Adaptive mechanisms in Mediterranean vegetation, such as deep rooting systems, have helped mitigate some impacts. But it’s far from enough. High risks remain.

Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...