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  Emboldened by Bolsonaro, Land-Hungry Ranchers Are Destroying a Pioneering Project to Help the Poor and Save the Amazon

  The Intercept - Sílvia Lisboa

  On the morning of February 12, 2005, American missionary Dorothy Stang was walking by the side of the road in the Brazilian Amazon when she was …

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  How Plastic Pollution Is Making Central America Uninhabitable

  The Intercept - Amelia Urry

  The fishermen stand thigh-deep in the muddy water as our boat pulls up to the shore, grass shushing against the hull. It is a still, cool morning and …

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  Coca-Cola Named Most Polluting Brand in Global Plastic Waste Audit

  The Intercept - Sharon Lerner

  Coca-Cola was found for the second year in a row to be the most polluting brand in a global audit of plastic trash conducted by the Break Free From …

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  Imperial Oil, Canada's Exxon Subsidiary, Ignored Its Own Climate Change Research for Decades, Archive Shows

  The Intercept - Murtaza Hussain

  Record droughts, raging forest fires, crop failures, and disappearing glaciers: It has become undeniable that the planet is in the early stages of a …

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  Ozone Layer Recovery Is Being Undermined by Pollution From U.S. Companies

  The Intercept - Sharon Lerner

  The global response to the “ozone hole,” as it came to be known in the 1970s, has long been held up as a model for environmental problem-solving — …

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  Rich Nations, After Driving Climate Disaster, Block All Progress at U.N. Talks

  The Intercept - Kate Aronoff

  Last Wednesday, over 300 demonstrators at COP25 in Madrid — this year’s 14-day U.N. climate talks, the group’s longest ever — watched from the …