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climate change Green Ideas

Rio Grande do Sul Floods: How Can Brazil’s Politicians Not See Climate?

Rio Grande do Sul Floods: How Can Brazil's Politicians Not See Climate?
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The deadly floods in southern Brazil are unprecedented but not unexpected. Ahead of the October local elections, Brazilians must remember that politicians have ignored scientists’ predictions and weakened legislation that could have helped deal with climate change.

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Eyes on the U.S. Migrant Lives

At U.S.-Mexico Border, Children’s Lives On The Line

Human rights protesters pray for women and children stopped from entering the Border Patrol facility in Murrieta, CA, on July 1.
Human rights protesters pray for women and children stopped from entering the Border Patrol facility in Murrieta, CA, on July 1. Hayne Palmour Iv/U-T San Diego/ZUMA

LA JOYA — Juan Castro is trying to keep it together as he tells me this story, but the tears well up in his eyes. “There was this 11-year-old girl from Guatemala who had been raped. I had to ask her how, where, by whom, why and every single detail that could help build her […]

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Geopolitics

Brazil Nightclub Fire Kills At Least 245 People

FOLHA DE S.PAULO, O GLOBO, ZERO HORA (Brazil) Worldcrunch SANTA MARIA – At least 245 people were killed early Sunday in a fire that swept through a popular nightclub in the city of Santa Maria, in the Southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, reports O Globo. The fire broke out at around 2 a.m. […]

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