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A COP26 entered the decisive week, and the biggest challenge is to regulate the international carbon market with the definition of the final text of article 6 of the Paris Agreement. According to economist Ronaldo Seroa, coordinator of Environmental Studies at IPEA, who came to the Climate Conference, Brazil can lead this trade, but it […]

The expectation this week at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, COP26, is that the rules for regulating carbon emissions will be defined. But what does it mean? According to the coordinator of the ESPM Center for Socioenvironmental Development (CEDES), Marcus Nakagawa, in an interview with CNN Radio, this point is key for the […]

About two months before the US Capitol invasion — known to Americans as the “January 6 riot” — Congressional police hired two unusual people to review the department’s intelligence operation, giving them the control over a unit that had already responded to inadequate training and lack of clear standards for years. The changes were intended […]

When the 200 newly elected deputies from the Czech Republic gathered for the inaugural session of their new parliament this Monday (8), there wasn’t a single Communist Party member there – it’s the first time this has happened in 76 years. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), the direct successor to the totalitarian […]

Archaeologists have discovered a room in a village on the outskirts of Pompeia, in southern Italy, containing beds and other objects that shed light on the living conditions of slaves in the ancient Roman city buried by a volcanic eruption. The bedroom, in excellent condition, contains three wooden beds and a series of other objects, […]

Iran said on Monday (8) that the United States should offer guarantees that it will not abandon the nuclear agreement, signed between Tehran and world powers in 2015, if negotiations to reactivate it are successful. Indirect talks between Iran and the US, which came to a halt in June after the election of Iran’s hard-line […]

Modern sloths stay in trees, move at a slow pace and have a vegetarian diet, but the same cannot be said for their extinct relative, mylodon. This ancient terrestrial sloth, which lived in South America until about 10,000 years ago, ate meat as well as plants, becoming omnivorous. The discovery, rooted in new research, contradicts […]

Former US President Barack Obama spoke at COP26, the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change in 2021, this Monday (8). According to him, curbing emissions and worrying about climate change “is not a partisan issue.” “Saving the planet is not a partisan issue. It doesn’t matter your party. Climate change can be seen around […]

CIA Director Bill Burns had a rare conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week to convey “serious” US concerns about Russia’s military buildup along the Ukrainian border and to try to understand Russian intentions, two sources told CNN. Putin’s spokesman also confirmed that there was an argument. “Yes, such a conversation took […]

The small island nation of Jamaica, like many others in the Caribbean, is regularly hit by tropical storms that are becoming more violent as the ocean warms, threatening to destroy homes, power grids, hospitals, roads and ports. Weather losses on vulnerable islands in the region – now also affected by the crisis caused by the […]