Kelly Slater, A "Trash Tsunami", and The Birth of A Movement
In 2021, filmmaker and activist Ricardo Gomes posted a video of a "trash tsunami" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The clip went viral overnight thanks to Kelly Slater.
In Brazil, mining giant Vale is sued over metal contamination found in Indigenous peoples
Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of ...
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Closing submissions begin in mammoth Brazil dam collapse trial
Mining giant BHP denies liability claim over Fundão Dam collapse brought against it in the English courts on behalf of more ...
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Ocean Pollution
Vote for a strong global treaty on plastic pollution Plastic pollution is suffocating our rivers and ocean, killing wildlife and contaminating our food, air and water. Without immediate action, ...
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Ocean trash is building up. This artist reveals what’s out there.
He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...
Belem, host of next year's climate talks, is Amazonian city plagued with pollution and violence
For the last few years, climate scientists, environmentalists and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been talking up the first United Nations climate summit to be held in the Amazon.
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In deep water: Ocean literacy among young people is worryingly low, new survey finds
A large majority of young people are concerned about the ocean’s health - yet they place a higher priority on protecting forests, reducing air pollution, and tackling freshwater scarcity.