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Environmentalist hugs tree for 72 hours for Kenya’s native forests

Mongabay 25 Dec 2025
A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the country’s native forests, many of which face extinction ... She didn’t eat or sleep for the duration of the hug.
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Sunny outlook in sight for foggy Tehama County | Shooting the Breeze

Red Bluff Daily News 19 Dec 2025
This perpetual fog is great for the orchard crops but not so good for the mind ... Lucy sang a duet and told jokes with her adorable husband, Laurence Luckenbill ... Shanna Long is a fourth-generation journalist and former editor of the Corning Observer ... ....
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EU votes to delay EUDR antideforestation law for second year in a row

Mongabay 19 Dec 2025
The European Parliament voted on Dec. 17 to delay a key antideforestation regulation that was adopted in 2023 and originally supposed to be implemented at the end of 2024 ... 31, 2020. That requirement includes submitting geolocalized data.
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Drug gangs in Ecuador and Peru also involved in shark fin trafficking: Report

Mongabay 19 Dec 2025
Narcotrafficking gangs operating out of Manabí, a coastal province of Ecuador, are also involved in trafficking shark fins alongside their drug operations, according to a recent investigation by Ecuadorian news agency Código Vidrio.
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‘Neither appropriate nor fair’: Ecuador ordered to pay oil giant Chevron $220m

Mongabay 18 Dec 2025
Indigenous and rural communities in Ecuador’s Amazon have condemned an international arbitration ruling that ordered Ecuador to pay more than $220 million to U.S. oil giant Chevron ... “It is neither appropriate nor fair.
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SGMA input hangs by thread in Tehama County | Shooting the breeze

Red Bluff Daily News 12 Dec 2025
We’ve been busy over here at the farm bureau. It all started two weeks ago when I received a call from Bill Borror, one of two Farm Bureau representatives who sit on the Demand Management working group ... Stay tuned and have a safe weekend ....
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The Amazon’s lakes are heating up at ‘alarming’ rate, research finds

Mongabay 11 Dec 2025
Five out of 10 lakes in the central Amazon had daytime temperatures over 37° Celsius, (98.6° Fahrenheit) during the region’s 2023 extreme heat wave, a recent study found ... “You can’t even put a finger in the water ... Image courtesy of Miguel Monteiro.
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An Ode to my Hero | Shooting the Breeze

Red Bluff Daily News 05 Dec 2025
In honor of Pearl Harbor, I’d like to give this space to my grandfather. He served on the USS Oklahoma until it capsized on Dec. 7, 1941 ... 28, 1950 ... George Murphy, Jr ... Shanna Long is a fourth-generation journalist and former editor of the Corning Observer.
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Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule

Mongabay 05 Dec 2025
Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts through one of the most intact parts of the Amazon Rainforest in northwestern Brazil ... On Dec.
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Brazilian Amazon’s most violent city tied to illegal gold mining on Indigenous land

Mongabay 04 Dec 2025
Violence has escalated in the small Brazilian town of Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade as illegal gold mining on the nearby Sararé Indigenous Territory has exploded over the last two years, according to the 2025 Amazon Violence Atlas.
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More than 1,400 dead across Asia after ‘rare’ cyclone & typhoon converge

Mongabay 04 Dec 2025
At least 1,400 people have died as a result of flooding and landslides across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, with many more still missing.
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Brazil votes to allow most projects & farms to skip environmental licensing

Mongabay 02 Dec 2025
Brazil’s lawmakers have voted, by an overwhelming majority, to weaken the nation’s environmental licensing system, overturning key protections that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had vetoed earlier this year ... In a Nov.
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PRC-linked Spamouflage works to spread antisemitic disinformation

Asiatimes 02 Dec 2025
This article, originally published by Pacific Forum, is republished with permission ... Latest stories ... Rob York (rob@pacforum.org) is director for regional affairs and Shanna Khayat (shanna@pacforum.org) is director of communications at Pacific Forum.
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One small Indigenous territory emerges as illegal mining hotspot in Brazil’s Amazon

Mongabay 28 Nov 2025
One small Indigenous territory is currently the site of roughly 70% of deforestation in Indigenous territories across the Brazilian Amazon due to illegal mining over the last two years, according to government data.
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