Amazônia: Questões ambientais contemporâneas — Internacional da Amazônia

Barbara Crane Navarro

Um jaguar descansando sob um arbusto.

Amazônia: Questões ambientais contemporâneas — Internacional da Amazônia

Luíza Veiga – Graduada em Relações Internacionais A região amazônica tem sofrido há décadas com diversas questões ligadas à sua exploração indevida. Queimadas, desmatamento e garimpos ilegais fazem com que povos indígenas venham sofrendo diretamente estes impactos, tendo suas terras constantemente invadidas. Contudo, nos últimos anos, especificamente após a […]

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Remembering Tiananmen Square: June Fourth Elegies

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A friend today shared some passages from a poem called “Suffocating City Square” from“June Fourth Elegies.” I have the book on my too-long, and rather muddled “Want To Read” list on GoodReads.

However, this book of poetry by Liu Xiaobo, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for “his prolonged non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China,” is not going to escape me. Political poetry is always a difficult read, but I will try. I wrote a little bit about the poet that year.

Liu dedicated his Peace Prize to “the lost souls from the Fourth of June.” Liu was sentenced in 2009 to 11 years in prison on “inciting subversion” charges for his involvement with Charter ’08, a manifesto calling for political reforms in China. In 2017, he was transferred to hospital, where he died from cancer of the liver. A year after…

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Myanmar’s Shadow Civilian Government Pledges to Grant Rohingya Citizenship on Return to Power — Radio Free Asia

Myanmar’s shadow civilian government on Friday pledged to grant citizenship to the country’s ethnic Rohingya if it regains power from the military, as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held talks with the junta about the ongoing political crisis prompted by its February coup d’état.

In a rare news conference, the National Unity Government (NUG) comprised of Myanmar’s ousted elected leadership said that it plans to amend the country’s constitution to give citizenship to the mostly Muslim ethnic group that was the target of a brutal military crackdown in Rakhine state in 2017.

Source: Myanmar’s Shadow Civilian Government Pledges to Grant Rohingya Citizenship on Return to Power — Radio Free Asia

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation reaches record level for May – The Washington Post

Preliminary government data released on Friday has raised concern that the coming dry season will see even more deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon than last year’s surge of cutting.

The area deforested in May, determined based on satellite images, jumped 41% compared to the same month in 2020, according to daily alerts compiled by the National Institute for Space Research’s Deter monitoring system.

That data is considered a reliable leading indicator for more complete calculations released at year end.

May marks the beginning of the dry season in the Amazon, when deforestation tends to spike. Deforestation in the month reached 1,180 square kilometers (456 square miles), the most for any May in at least five years. April and March figures also topped all prior readings for those respective months since the 2015-2016 start of the data series.

Source: Brazil’s Amazon deforestation reaches record level for May – The Washington Post

Arctic sea ice thinning twice as fast as thought, study finds | Arctic | The Guardian

Sea ice across much of the Arctic is thinning twice as fast as previously thought, researchers have found.

Arctic ice is melting as the climate crisis drives up temperatures, resulting in a vicious circle in which more dark water is exposed to the sun’s heat, leading to even more heating of the planet.

The faster ice loss means the shorter north-eastern shipping passage from China to Europe will become easier to navigate, but it also means new oil and gas extraction is more feasible.

Source: Arctic sea ice thinning twice as fast as thought, study finds | Arctic | The Guardian

CDC: Rate of COVID-19 hospitalization rising in adolescents, teens – UPI.com

Among hospitalized adolescents, nearly one-third required intensive care unit admissions and 5% required invasive mechanical ventilation. Of the hospitalized adolescents and teens, nearly 30% had no underlying conditions. “Much of this suffering can be prevented,” Walensky said, noting that adolescents and teens older than age 12 are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Source: CDC: Rate of COVID-19 hospitalization rising in adolescents, teens – UPI.com

vegan broccoli pasta

Honey Lemon Chai

Nothing can be more satisfying than a bowl of pasta for dinner. But rather than having it with a creamy sauce, add some roasted vegetables, toasted pine nuts and dash of olive oil for a healthier option. This dish, although quite light will leave you full and satisfied for hours.



Broccoli Pasta :
COURSE : Dinner DIETARY INFO : Vegan SERVINGS : 2
PREP TIME : 10 mins COOK TIME : 20 minsTOTAL TIME : 30 mins

INGREDIENTS :

  • 1 large head of broccoli
  • 80g pitted black olives
  • 65g sun-dried tomatoes
  • 200g penne pasta
  • 50g toasted pine nuts
  • handful of fresh basil
  • lemon juice of 1 lemon
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp of oil from the sun-dried tomatoes
  • 1/2 chilli flakes
  • salt and black pepper to taste
  • *5 tbsp of reserved pasta water

INSTRUCTIONS :

  1. Preheat the oven to 180C. Cut the broccoli into small florets pieces and…

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الحياة والدراجة

حلم الدرويش

والحياة كنهر مُتدفق لا ينظر للخلف ولا يتوقف ، وليس أمامك سوى أن تتعلم السباحة فى النهر قبل أن تُلقى بنفسك فيه وإلا فأن مصيرك المحتوم هو الغرق والفناء ، وسيستمر النهر فى طريقه ولن يُبالى بك أو بغيرك من الغرقى ، هو يمضى فى طريقه المرسوم وأنت يجب أن تسير فى طريقك المَأمُول . العزيمة والإصرار والصبر والعمل ، أشياء ومُحفزات تساعدك فى رحلتك نحو الأهداف فتحلى بها ولا تُهملها أبداً ، وكذلك الشغف والعلم كلاهما يلعب دور الزاد والوقود المُحرك للفرد والمجتمع نحو التطور والاِرتقاء لما هو أفضل . الثقة فى النفس ومُداومة التجريب والتَعلُم تصنع التقدم والإتقان فى ما تفعله ، مع ضرورة التَقبُل والتسليم بأن التطور سيأتى بشكل تدريجى ويحتاج لبعض الوقت والمجهود والتركيز .

دراجة طائرة نحو القمر

الدراجة والتوازن

نتعلم من قيادة الدراجات أن التوازن والتبديل المُستمر هو أساس الحركة الميكانيكية للدراجة ، وكذلك فى حركة سير الحياة يجب أن تحظى بالتوازن بين أشياء…

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