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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 1h

Brazil: Illegal Ranches Devastate Rainforest, Livelihoods.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Brazil: Illegal Ranches Devastate Rainforest, Livelihoods

Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, the state that will hold the COP30 climate summit this year.

www.hrw.org

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 11h

Some of the world’s biggest financial institutions, including Vanguard, JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, BNP Paribas & HSBC, have reaped billions through investments, loans & issuance underwriting services provided to 50 companies accused of forest destruction.

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Global banks earn billions from deforestation

New Global Witness research exposes glaring contradiction at the heart of forest finance, as Brazil prepares to launch flagship tropical forest fund at COP30

globalwitness.org

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 15h

New York Climate Week session “Solar Geoengineering: The Case for an International Non-Use Agreement”.

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Session on “Solar Geoengineering: The Case for an International Non-Use Agreement” @NYC Climate Week

YouTube video by Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 3d

Agência Brasil, parte da EBC, Empresa Brasil de Comunicação, hoje sob controle majoritariamente chinês. Afinal, quem melhor para garantir informação “oficial” e “imparcial” do que um acionista do Partido Comunista?

Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 3d

Disease is catastrophically reshaping the planet’s most protected landscapes.

By me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social

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Disease is catastrophically reshaping the planet's most protected landscapes

A new report from the IUCN warns that the next great biodiversity crisis may already be underway, as wildlife diseases spread quickly

www.thecanary.co

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 6d

We’ve lost our sense of belonging to the world we live in. Every war and irrational act of violence, every forest cut down, every poisoned river is a reflection of how far we’ve drifted from nature and ourselves! This isn’t just the planet dying, it’s us, disappearing with it!

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 7d

Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation.

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Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation

A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Center reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which t...

phys.org

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 7d

Extremely worrying data!

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 7d

"It's highly worrying... If you observe a loss of stability followed by a rapid change, then you are confident that these are early warning signals for an abrupt change"- Dr. Beatriz Arellano Nava, @exeter.ac.uk

www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Massive system of rotating ocean currents in the North Atlantic is behaving strangely — and it may be reaching a tipping point

An analysis of clam shells suggests the North Atlantic subpolar gyre has had two periods of destabilization over the past 150 years: one around 1920 and the other from 1950 through present.

www.livescience.com

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 7d

My article for @theecologist.org:

Where police are paid to kill.

Police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be paid bonuses for killing suspects. Aimed at organized crime, the law will hit ethnic minorities - and eco-activists.

theecologist.org/2025/oct/07/...

Where police are paid to kill

Police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be paid bonuses for killing suspects. Aimed at organized crime, the law will hit ethnic minorities - and eco-activists.

theecologist.org

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Reposted by Monica Piccinini

The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 7d

Police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be paid bonuses for killing suspects. Aimed at organized crime, the law will hit ethnic minorities - and eco-activists.

Great reporting from @monicapiccinini.bsky.social

theecologist.org/2025/oct/07/...

Where police are paid to kill

Police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be paid bonuses for killing suspects. Aimed at organized crime, the law will hit ethnic minorities - and eco-activists.

theecologist.org

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Reposted by Monica Piccinini

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 9d

Rio de Janeiro’s 'Squid Game': where police are paid to kill

Rio de Janeiro's police bill is state-sanctioned murder dressed up like fighting crime - and it will harm poor, Black communities most
www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Rio de Janeiro’s 'Squid Game': where police are paid to kill

Rio de Janeiro's police bill is state-sanctioned murder dressed up like fighting crime - and it will harm poor, Black communities most

www.thecanary.co

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 9d

My latest article for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social:
Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Squid Game’: where police are paid to kill.

Rio de Janeiro's police bill is state-sanctioned murder dressed up like fighting crime - and it will harm poor, Black communities most.

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Rio de Janeiro’s 'Squid Game': where police are paid to kill

Rio de Janeiro's police bill is state-sanctioned murder dressed up like fighting crime - and it will harm poor, Black communities most

www.thecanary.co

Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 10d

Caipirinhas cancelled: Brazil on alert over deadly drinks.

From chic Sao Paulo bars to Rio de Janeiro's beaches, Brazilians are on edge after a wave of suspected poisonings from tainted liquor has left people dead, blind, or in a coma.

f24.my/BTfR.X via @FRANCE24

Caipirinhas cancelled: Brazil on alert over deadly drinks

From chic Sao Paulo bars to Rio de Janeiro's beaches, Brazilians are on edge after a wave of suspected poisonings from tainted liquor has left people dead, blind, or in a coma.

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 11d

Warming of the planet can lead to a significant weakening of the AMOC.

This would have consequences for the Amazon because the altered temperatures in the Atlantic would affect the atmospheric water cycle, & also the patterns & amounts of precipitation.

www.msn.com/en-us/weathe...

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 11d

My latest article for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social:

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza: the silent war on nature and survival.

Amid its genocidal siege, Israel is destroying safe futures for Palestine through its destruction of soil, air, and water quality.

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Israel's ecocide in Gaza: the silent war on nature and survival

Amid its genocidal siege, Israel is destroying safe futures for Palestine through its destruction of soil, air, and water quality

www.thecanary.co

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 12d

Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Bill Will Encourage Police Shootings.

“Giving bonuses to police for killings is not only outright brutal but also undermines public security by creating a financial incentive for officers to shoot rather than arrest suspects.”

www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Bill Will Encourage Police Shootings

The governor of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro should veto provisions in a new bill that would give civil police an economic incentive to kill suspects and would weaken forensic analysis, Human...

www.hrw.org

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 12d

TONIGHT:

As Israel illegally abducts the flotilla activists, the public plan mass protests UK-wide

Israel has illegally intercepted the Gaza humanitarian flotilla in international waters, so people across the UK will protest its impunity. Details #ShutItDown:
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As Israel illegally abducts the flotilla activists, the public plan mass protests UK-wide

Israel has illegally intercepted the Gaza humanitarian flotilla in international waters, so people across the UK will protest its impunity

www.thecanary.co

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 13d

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.
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The Amazon rainforest: the breeding grounds for the next pandemic

Destruction of the Amazon rainforest is driving the emergence of the next pandemic, as zoonotic-borne diseases surge.

www.thecanary.co

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 13d

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!

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 13d

RIP Jane Goodall

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 13d

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 13d

My latest article for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social:

The Amazon rainforest: the breeding grounds for the next pandemic.

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

The Amazon rainforest: the breeding grounds for the next pandemic

Destruction of the Amazon rainforest is driving the emergence of the next pandemic, as zoonotic-borne diseases surge.

www.thecanary.co

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 13d

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...

MSN

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 13d

Drivers of rabies virus spillover risk from vampire bats to livestock in Colombia.

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Drivers of rabies virus spillover risk from vampire bats to livestock in Colombia

Rabies is an acute and progressive viral zoonotic disease of the nervous system, which widely affects domestic animals in Latin America. Vampire bat-borne rabies virus (RABV) has significant negative ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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