Life is Not Useful, Ailton Krenak, translated by Alex Brostoff and Jamille Pinheiro Dias, 2023, Polity
Categories: Brazil, South America
Tag: Environment
Dom Phillips
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A forest corrupted
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As the COP23 climate talks draw to a close, the case of the Yacu Kallpa – held in a Mexican port for shipping illegal timber – uncovers the endemic corruption driving deforestation
Categories: Ecuador, North America, Peru, South America, United States
Water apartheid
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For land reform to be both just and effective, water must be shared out too ––– ||| Watering the Revolution, Mikael D Wolfe, 2017, Duke University Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Heroes behind the lens
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When it comes to climate change, seeing is believing ––– ||| Images from a Warming Planet, by Ashley Cooper (2016, Global Warming Images Publishing)
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, North America, South America, United States
Back from the brink
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Comment: Deforestation is emblematic of the high cost Latin America has paid for development, but there is encouraging evidence that the region is nurturing forests back to life
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, Venezuela
A truce in the forest
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An environmental history of community forestry in Mexico offers valuable lessons in the global effort to reduce deforestation, increase rural incomes and protect diversity
Categories: Mexico, North America
The nature of Nature
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The Amazon is home to distinct tropical ecosystems – but also global debates about the meanings of modernity
Categories: Brazil, North America, South America, United States
She gods
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A timely study of Mexican icons of the divine feminine offers a new perspective on the history of religion at a time when the Church is gender confused
Categories: Mexico, North America
In brief: Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba
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Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution, Sherry Johnson, 2011, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States