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Brazil’s Most Sustainable City Finds Value in its Garbage
Havana Times
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June 26, 2025
Entrance to the community garden of Ribeirao, a sector of Florianopolis, the capital of Brazil’s Santa Catarina State. The city has over 150 active community gardens which function as the final destination of the fertilizer produced from organic...
Global Climate Risk Index Ranks 188 Countries by Vulnerability and Access to Finance
State of the Planet
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June 25, 2025
The Climate Finance Vulnerability Index ranks 188 countries according to both their vulnerability to hazards and their financial resilience. Researchers at the Columbia Climate School, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, have unveiled a...
Venezuela Urges United Nations to Stop Ignoring Crimes Committed by Israel
teleSUR
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June 17, 2025
Venezuelan FM Yvan Gil. X/ @El_Cooperante June 17, 2025 Hour: 2:04 pm At the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Tuesday, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil urged the international community to take concrete and effective action to halt...
New Index Ranks Vulnerabilities of 188 Nations to Climate Shocks
The Rockefeller Foundation
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June 25, 2025
Columbia Climate School identifies 65 ‘Red Zone’ nations across four separate climate scenarios. 43 nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, eight in Latin America and the Caribbean, six in Asia-Pacific, six in the Middle East, and two in Europe are most...
Blackout at Cardón refinery highlights Venezuela's oil industry crisis
United Press International (UPI)
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View of the headquarters of the state-owned oil and natural gas company Petroleos de Venezuela, in Caracas, on Jan. 30, 2019. File Photo by Miguel Gutierrez/EPA-EFE June 25 (UPI) -- The Cardón refinery, Venezuela's second-largest with a capacity...
Venezuela's El Dorado, Where Gold Is Currency Of The Poor
International Business Times - Australia
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June 17, 2025
In the Venezuelan mining community of El Dorado, the majority of residents carry around gold instead of cards or cash to pay for groceries. They live in a town named after the mythical City of Gold and untold riches -- but most of them are poor....
Venezuela Celebrates UN Proclamation of International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures
teleSUR
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June 17, 2025
UN General Assembly declares December 4 as international day against unilateral sanctions, led by Venezuela.Photo:EFE. June 16, 2025 Hour: 9:43 pm Venezuela praises the UN General Assembly’s adoption of December 4 as the International Day against...
US sanctions alleged leader of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua
Al Jazeera
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June 25, 2025
The United States Treasury Department has sanctioned the alleged leader of Tren de Aragua (TDA), a Venezuelan gang that the administration of President Donald Trump has used as justification for its immigration crackdown. In a statement released...
The Dragon Can’t Dance: Trinidad, Venezuela, and Late Petro-State Politics
Engagement
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June 24, 2025
By J. Brent Crosson, Associate Professor, UT Austin “Dragon Gas”—that was the phrase on the lips of Trinidadian commentators following the 2024 US presidential elections. As Trinidad and Tobago1 prepared for its own national elections in April...
Ender Garcia: Advancing Wireline Engineering from Venezuela to the Global Energy Sector
News Blaze
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June 24, 2025
Ender Garcia’s professional path in petroleum engineering is defined by a strong technical foundation, global field experience, and a focused expertise in wireline services—an essential part of modern oil and gas operations. Originally from...
A Newsroom for Venezuela
Caracas Chronicles
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June 23, 2025
As anywhere else in the world, Venezuela’s large traditional media outlets were owned by four or five wealthy family groups that surfed a century in which ¨the media¨ was good business. As Hugo Chavez’s autocratic tumbao became more evident and...
Forced into Exile After Investigating Corruption, Continuing to Report on Venezuela from Afar
Global Investigative Journalism Network
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June 23, 2025
As the political situation around him gradually worsened, Venezuelan investigative reporter Roberto Deniz knew that his work might, one day, bring him some trouble. “As an investigative journalist, it’s not easy to try to connect corruption with...
Homeland Security agents seeking Venezuelan gang members in Omaha
KOLN - Nebraska
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June 23, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Homeland Security investigators said they have identified several gang members in the Metro area who are in the country illegally. Last week, law enforcement rushed to an apartment complex near 25th Street and Chandler Road in...
Cool books for a hot summer
Yale Climate Connections - Connecticut
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July 11, 2025
In May, we gave you a head start on your summer reading list with our bookshelf on the nine British novels that contended for the Climate Fiction Prize. (“And So I Roar” by Abi Dare took the prize.) Now we have 12 more titles for you to consider:...
US warns of 'heightened threat environment' after strikes on Iran nukes
Daytona Beach News Journal - Florida
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The Department of Homeland Security warned on June 22 of a "heightened threat environment" in the U.S. as Mideast tensions soared and all eyes were glued to Tehran after the bombing of three Iran nuclear sites a day earlier. U.S. officials heaped...
Israel-Iran Escalation Compromises Global Energy Security, Venezuelan VP
teleSUR
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Venezuela’s Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez during her speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Photo: X June 21, 2025 Hour: 12:08 pm Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, warned at the International Economic...
The Venezuelan Regime Campaigns to Cover Up Its Human Rights Abuses
The Good Men Project - California
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June 21, 2025
By Civic Media Observatory This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. On May 25, 2025, Venezuela held regional and parliamentary elections in a government effort to demonstrate...
Marea Socialista: Against bureaucratic authoritarianism and capitalist exploitation in Venezuela
LINKS
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June 19, 2025
First published in Spanish at Aporrea. Translation by Anderson Bean published in Tempest along with introductory note. Tempest is publishing the following English translation of a statement issued by the Venezuelan socialist organization Marea...
Renewable energyâs hidden cost: High-tech mining wreaks environmental havoc
Natural News
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June 18, 2025
Global metal extraction quadrupled since 1970, fueled by renewable energy demands. Study links mining to water pollution, biodiversity loss and deforestation in sensitive zones like rainforests and deserts. Top five countries (Russia, China,...
Severe weather interrupts RB Salzburg-Pachuca match
Field Level Media
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FC Red Bull Salzburg and CF Pachuca’s Group H match in Cincinnati, Ohio, was paused due to a severe weather delay in the 54th minute with Salzburg holding a 1-0 lead on Wednesday night. Oscar Gloukh’s 42nd-minute strike from beyond the penalty...