Even 29 years after this sad episode in Brazilian history, impunity still reveals how justice protects the powerful and criminalizes the poor. The crime moved the world and transformed April 17 into the International Day of Fight for the Territories and the National Day of Fight for Agrarian Reform.
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Iceland’s largest commercial whaling company, Hvalur hf. , has said it will not hunt any fin whales in the summer of 2025. In December 2024, Iceland’s government granted Hvalur hf. , run by billionaire Kristján Loftsson, a five-year license to hunt 209 fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) each year between 2025 and 2029. Another whaling company, Tjaldtangi ehf.
Factory jobs are not inherently good jobs. Even if Donald Trump’s trade policies bring factories back to the United States, workers need unions to make those jobs well-paying and safe — and Trump has been the most anti-union president in years.
From land mine detection to sniffing out illegally trafficked wildlife parts, a group of trained African giant pouched rats in Tanzania is proving a valuable partner for humans, Mongabay’s Lucia Torres reported in February.
The strongest winds in decades triggered damage across northern and eastern China, killing a cyclist, grounding flights, shutting down tourist sites, and prompted emergency weather alerts across much of the country.
Nigerian authorities have seized 3.76 metric tons of pangolin scales and arrested five people in Lagos, in a follow-up to the recent arrest of a Chinese national suspected of trafficking pangolin scales.
A chunk of Scottish voters have tended to think that Scotland doesn’t need independence, just a Labour government. But with the party now in power, the tide has turned, writes Adam Ramsay.
Now faced with the genocide in Gaza, the activists have started to focus on violence committed against Palestinian women in the context of the war and the occupation.