The Amazon rainforest: the breeding grounds for the next pandemic The destruction of the Amazon rainforest is driving the emergence of the next pandemic, as zoonotic-borne diseases surge. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

It’s time for churches, religious institutions & monarchs to stop accumulating wealth & land. These belong to the people, not hidden in palaces or vast estates. Return the wealth & the land! Give it back to the communities that built them!

RIP Jane Goodall

My latest article for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social: The Amazon rainforest: the breeding grounds for the next pandemic. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

The Batista brothers, majority shareholders of J&F (controls JBS), want Amazonas Energia. Their bid landed at Aneel (Brazil’s electricity regulator) just 16 days after Lula’s gov. bailed out the utility by dumping its debts on all Brazilians’ power bills. www.msn.com/pt-br/notici...

Drivers of rabies virus spillover risk from vampire bats to livestock in Colombia. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

JBS may once again be sourcing cattle illegally. The company, leading agribusiness efforts with Brazilian negotiators at COP30, appears to be receiving cattle from a farm fined twice by Brazil’s environmental agency, Ibama, for deforestation. www.intercept.com.br/2025/09/29/r...

BREAKING: Spain joins the Hague Group to hold Israel accountable over Gaza In an unprecedented move, Spain has announced its intention to join the Hague Group to hold Israeli occupation accountable for genocide www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Israel pulls the trigger, and the US loads the gun. The genocide is theirs, a joint operation of destruction and denial. The rest of the world in paralysis, our leaders pretending they care - failing to act!

“given currently available records, the present anthropogenic carbon release rate is unprecedented during the past 66 million yrs... future ecosystem disruptions are likely to exceed the relatively limited extinctions observed at the PETM” www.nature.com/articles/nge...

W/ roughly 70 exploration & production contracts in force and 19 active offshore production platforms producing an average output of more than 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, it is no wonder that UK supermajor Shell takes Brazil very seriously. www.upstreamonline.com/focus/shell-...

Brazilian federal environmental regulator Ibama has approved, with “reservations”, the results of the pre-operational assessment campaign carried out by Petrobras last month in the Foz do Amazonas basin in the country’s northern equatorial margin. www.upstreamonline.com/exploration/...

My latest article for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social: The Amazon is suffocating thanks to the BR-319 highway. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

With COP30 around the corner, one topic is being conveniently ignored: the controversial reconstruction of the Amazon’s BR-319 highway. Why the silence?

The UN just exposed orphaned children in Gaza are eating sand and drinking poisonous water President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock warned of the worsening humanitarian disaster in Gaza for orphans www.thecanary.co/global/world...

My latest article for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social: The Amazon is suffocating thanks to the BR-319 highway. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Climate scientists can’t stay on the sidelines. Yes, they should get involved with politics! With their knowledge of the crisis, silence isn’t neutrality, it’s cowardice!

Top story this week @theecologist.org: Biotech: a brave new world. theecologist.org/2025/sep/04/...

‘Banks still fuelling the chainsaw economy’: Global Witness reacts to Brazil’s TFFF pledge. There is strong evidence that the world’s worst deforesters are generating profits for banks on a scale that dwarfs the potential returns of the TFFF. globalwitness.org/en/press-rel...

Biotechnology is rewriting the rules of life on this planet. Is it friend or foe?

Look at what’s happened in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific! Little by little, China moved in, took over resources, chipped away at freedoms, and pulled the country under its influence. Brazil has so much wealth, and if it’s not careful, the same story could play out there too!

“No country is ready to give up oil”, says Lula, defending exploration in the Amazon. The president repeats flawed arguments to defend oil exploration, despite Brazil's commitments and the current climate emergency. climainfo.org.br/2025/09/18/n...

Silent War on Women - Femicide in Brazil In Brazil, more and more women are becoming victims of femicide. There are 1,500 cases per year – with most victims killed by a partner or ex-partner. p.dw.com/p/50mRv?maca...

Top story this week @theecologist.org: Biotech: a brave new world. theecologist.org/2025/sep/04/...

Brazilian Lawmakers Approve Measure Allowing Them to Block Investigations Against Themselves. Proposal gives Congress the power to halt proceedings against legislators, many suspected of diverting budget funds. www1.folha.uol.com.br/internaciona...

Defending the planet shouldn’t be a death sentence. Last year, 146 land & environmental defenders were killed or went missing. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

A vaccine and Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes to fight dengue. But why not tackle the root cause (climate change) instead of slapping on a bandaid? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Partners in crime, Netanyahu & Trump, aren’t just playing with fire, they’re saving themselves a permanent place in hell, if such a place exists!

Feels like we’re gaslit every year! More speeches, more promises, but fossil fuel production keeps rising. Paris didn’t fix that. COPs aren’t fixing it. And time is running out!

Brazil’s giant mining company, Vale, receives license to expand iron ore production in the Novo Carajás Programme by 2030. www.infomoney.com.br/mercados/val... via @InfoMoney

Amazon’s oxygen crisis used to support the BR-319 highway revival. monicapiccinini.medium.com/amazons-oxyg...

Regardless of benefits, the current renaissance of biotech breakthroughs still requires guardrails to mitigate risks. geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/09/12/v...

Biotech is no longer just science: it’s a tool that is rewriting what life looks like. theecologist.org/2025/sep/04/...

My article for @theecologist.org: Biotech: a brave new world. Biotech is no longer just science: it’s a tool that is rewriting what life looks like. theecologist.org/2025/sep/04/...

My article for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social: Amazon’s oxygen crisis used to support the BR-319 highway revival. Political negligence was to blame for the oxygen crisis during coronavirus, but now politicians are using that excuse to build highway BR-319. www.thecanary.co/uncategorize...

New study shows how Amazon trees use recent rainfall in the dry season and support the production of their own rain. theconversation.com/new-study-sh...

“The power to control our species genetic future is awesome and terrifying. Deciding how to handle it may be the biggest challenge we have ever faced.” Read “Biotech’s brave new world“ by Monica Piccinini on Medium: monicapiccinini.medium.com/biotechs-bra...

For decades you support your parents financially and emotionally, yet men brand you the villain - especially the ones who benefit from your efforts! In Brazil’s patriarchy, no matter what women give or achieve, they’re still blamed, because their strength threatens male power!

Brazil’s new shipping route to China may look like economic growth, but is it really just a faster track to deforestation, ecological destruction, and forcing people off their land? tvbrics.com/en/news/new-...

My article for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social: Biotech’s brave new world is rewriting all our futures. “The power to control our species genetic future is awesome and terrifying. Deciding how to handle it may be the biggest challenge we have ever faced.” www.thecanary.co/global/world...

If the BR-319 highway goes ahead, we may wave goodbye to the Amazon rainforest! Brazil’s Federal Court of Auditors (TCU) denied the request to revoke the preliminary license for the repaving of the “middle section” of the BR-319 highway. g1.globo.com/google/amp/a...

Brazil’s state-owned oil & gas company, Petrobras, completes key test needed for exploration license in Amazon region. A catastrophe waiting to happen! #COP30 www.bairdmaritime.com/amp/story/of...

From displacement tents to dreams of school: this time, I am writing to you about my own children Our Palestinian correspondent Alaa Shamali poignantly details the profound effect Israel's genocide in Gaza has had on his own children - displaced in the Strip. www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Every member of the UN Security Council, except the United States, has recognised that Gaza is facing famine. History will not forget America’s role in enabling this genocide.

Emerging biotechnologies are developing rapidly while being filled with a large amount of uncertainty, which increases the complexity of potential biotechnological risks. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

New developments in biotechnology applied to animals. According to the European Food Safety Authority, “no new potential hazards, and thus, no new risks to humans, animals or the environment have been identified.” 🤔 www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajourn...

Trump needs to recognise that Greenland is part of Denmark 🇩🇰. His proposal to purchase, or worse, seize it by force, places him on the same level as authoritarian rulers!

The conduct of US envoy Tom Barrack is outrageous and unacceptable, as he described journalists’ behaviour in Lebanon as ‘animalistic’.

The California Senate has unanimously approved a resolution to review and eventually end the state's imports of crude oil from the Amazon rainforest. www.newsday.com/news/nation/...

Brazil’s Red Command gang created its own Uber-style ride-hailing app, showing how Brazilian gangs are combining real-world territorial control and increasing technological sophistication to generate new revenue streams. insightcrime.org/news/brazil-...