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DoomsdaysCW<p>HT <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsnorrell.blogspot.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bsnorrell.blogspot.com</span></a></span> </p><p>On the Frontline of Land Defense in the Amazon in Brazil</p><p>"Defending Land Rights in the Amazon in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brazil</span></a>. The land defenders say they will remain mobilized until their rights are guaranteed. “We will not leave. We left our homes, we have children, young people and the elderly here. This is to resist."</p><p>Read more:<br>bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-frontline-of-land-defense-in-amazon.html<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheAmazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheAmazon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Stories from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheAmazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheAmazon</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kenya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kenya</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zimbabwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zimbabwe</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldWaterDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWaterDay</span></a>: 3 stories of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>restoration</span></a> from around the globe</p><p>Kristine Sabillo, 21 Mar 2025 </p><p>"More than 2 billion people around the world live without access to safe drinkable water, as rivers, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/groundwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>groundwater</span></a>, lakes and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/glaciers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glaciers</span></a> face continued threats of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> and overexploitation due to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/urbanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>urbanization</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDestruction</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> .</p><p>"This World Water Day, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mongabay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mongabay</span></a> looks back at some of its coverage from 2024 on how local communities are trying to protect the world’s dwindling water resources."</p><p><a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/world-water-day-3-stories-of-resistance-and-restoration-from-around-the-globe/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.mongabay.com/short-articl</span><span class="invisible">e/world-water-day-3-stories-of-resistance-and-restoration-from-around-the-globe/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiversAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RiversAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wetlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wetlands</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Marshes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marshes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rivers</span></a></p>
John Refior<p>"In <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TheAmazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheAmazon</span></a>, communities next to the world’s most voluminous river are queuing for water..<br>Public authorities in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brazil</span></a> are scrambling to deliver food and water to thousands of isolated communities throughout a vast and roadless territory, where boats are the only means of transportation."<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/amazon-brazil-rainforest-drought-humanitarian-aid-ea5087979c84d4480bfaa7380f48f655" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/amazon-braz</span><span class="invisible">il-rainforest-drought-humanitarian-aid-ea5087979c84d4480bfaa7380f48f655</span></a><br>—<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/rainforest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rainforest</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a></p>
John Refior<p>"‘Without water, there is no life’: <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drought</span></a> in Brazil’s Amazon..<br>Communities dependent on the Amazon <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/rainforest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rainforest</span></a>’s waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food, or filtered water..<br>extreme drought sweeping across <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TheAmazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheAmazon</span></a>. The historically low water levels have affected hundreds of thousands of people and wildlife and, with experts predicting the drought could last until early 2024..<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a>, driven by the burning of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a>, is the backdrop"<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-drought-environment-climate-rivers-4152b5e288e1b85abc4e5d4af64db67d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/brazil-amaz</span><span class="invisible">on-drought-environment-climate-rivers-4152b5e288e1b85abc4e5d4af64db67d</span></a></p>
PixelJones<p>In a matchup between a sloth &amp; a big cat ** on the ground **, who wins?</p><p>This rare footage says the sloth (one of my favorite creatures) can actually move fast &amp; defend itself pretty well when it needs to.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TheAmazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheAmazon</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Sloths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sloths</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/rare-footage-captures-the-moment-a-predator-attacked-a-sloth-and-lost" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencealert.com/rare-footage-</span><span class="invisible">captures-the-moment-a-predator-attacked-a-sloth-and-lost</span></a></p>
📎🖐️ Alan Taylor 🎬 📚<p>🧐 'The search team conducted multiple sweeps from the air, attaching a long-range speaker to a helicopter on which they played a message from the children’s grandmother, in the Huitoto language, telling them the search was underway and to stay where they were.' 💪 <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/10/colombian-children-found-alive-five-weeks-after-amazon-jungle-plane-crash" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2023/jun</span><span class="invisible">/10/colombian-children-found-alive-five-weeks-after-amazon-jungle-plane-crash</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theamazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theamazon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/survival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>survival</span></a> 👍 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colombia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colombia</span></a> 🇨🇴</p>
Kjell :verified:<p>Hoppas alla haft ett fint nyår!<br>Minns ni för tag sen när jag skrev att Brasiliens nya president lovat att göra allt för bevarandet av Amazonas? <br>Förutom ett nytt urfolksministerium får också kända miljöaktivister tunga poster i regeringen. Kul!</p><p>"Regnskogsaktivisten Marina Silva blir miljöminister och urfolksledaren Sonia Guajajara urfolksminister i Lula da Silvas regering "</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/klimat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>klimat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/theamazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theamazon</span></a></p><p><a href="https://omni.se/a/EQJL3P" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">omni.se/a/EQJL3P</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>