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For Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan, vaccine doubt is part of historic govt distrust

Brazil continues to lose an entire generation of Indigenous leaders to COVID-19

Amazon dams: No clean water, fish dying, then the pandemic came

Cleaning up Cambodia’s kitchens could curb deforestation, climate change

Rush to turn ‘black diamonds’ into cash eats up Uganda’s forests, fruits

Talks break down over crumbling Yemeni tanker threatening massive oil spill

We can prevent the next pandemic (commentary)

South Korea faces a public reckoning for financing coal plants in Indonesia

As climate change brings more floods, mosquito numbers could swell: Study

Never mind the mercury: Indonesia says coal ash isn’t hazardous

Amid pollution and COVID-19, a quilombolas’ Amazon sanctuary turns hostile

Ending tropical deforestation is vital to public health, scientists say

In ‘dire’ plea, Brazil’s Amazonas state appeals for global COVID assistance

Brazil’s collapsing health service, new COVID variant, raise Indigenous risk

Brazilians impacted by mining assert: ‘Genocide legalized by the state’

Dogs in Brazil are being trained to sniff out COVID-19 in humans

Coronavirus risk grows as animals move through wildlife trade

Coal stockpiles threaten public health, ancient temple, in Indonesian village

One Health: A necessary blend of biodiversity and human health goals (commentary)

For European chemical giants, Brazil is an open market for toxic pesticides banned at home

Around the world, a fire crisis flares up, fueled by human actions

Survival of Indigenous communities at risk as Amazon fire season advances

Communities, conservation, and development in the age of COVID: Time for rethinking approaches (commentary)

Lockdown should have cleared up Jakarta’s air. Coal plants kept it dirty

Favoring ayahuasca over hospitals, Indigenous Kokama see COVID-19 deaths drop in the Amazon

Mining industry releases first standard to improve safety of waste storage

Deaths of Yanomami babies from COVID-19 bring anguish to mothers

Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’

Traditional villages dread living in shadow of Amazon tailings dams

Court forces Ecuador government to protect Indigenous Waorani during COVID-19

Brazil’s indigenous hit especially hard by COVID-19: why so vulnerable?

COVID-19 and rainforest fires set up potential public health crisis

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