Tag: brazil
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At the COP30 climate summit, nations will again try to agree on targets to limit catastrophic global temperature rise. But many barriers remain before steep greenhouse gas cuts are realized.… more ›
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In Buriticupu, about 1,200 people risk losing their homes, and residents have seen the problem escalate in 30 years https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/21/amazon-brazil-sinkhole more ›
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Black Brazilians make up almost two-thirds of the country’s overcrowded prison population, despite comprising just 10% of the national population, Bloomberg reported. https://www.semafor.com/article/06/26/2024/brazils-top-court-votes-to-decriminalize-marijuana-possession more ›
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The global economy is increasingly influenced by the Group of Twenty’s large emerging markets. Over the past two decades, these economies have become much more integrated with global markets and… more ›
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On 27 July 1825, a brig called Espadarte (Swordfish) docked in Rio de Janeiro and unloaded its expensive cargo: 422 Africans forcibly shipped across the Atlantic from Angola. It was… more ›
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Brazilian prosecutors have launched a civil investigation into one of the country’s largest banks’ historical links to slavery, in an unprecedented move to hold Brazilian institutions to account for their… more ›