John Otis
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NPR ventures into a Colombian emerald mine — which used to be more dangerous, with potential explosions inside and gunfights outside. The CEO, a former U.S. diplomat, says he wanted to change that. -
The pirarucu, the giant fish of the Amazon, was an endangered species. Due to conservation efforts, it's making a comeback.
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Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is heading to the COP27 summit this week, to reassure the world that Amazon rainforest is in safe hands.
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted the Biden administration to extend an olive branch to Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro.
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Plans to pave Brazil's highway BR-319 through the Amazon rainforest have raised alarm from environmental groups.
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Music has brought solace and companionship for some of those who were blinded in the 2019 mass protests in Chile.
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The legacy of the Nobel-prize winning Chilean poet is in trouble. In the latest controversy Chiles' feminist movement is calling out Pablo Neruda as a male chauvinist and a sexual predator.
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It's election day in one of the worlds largest democracies, Brazil, and people there and abroad are holding their breath and hoping the result will be respected.
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After record deforestation and environmental deregulation in the past few years, the result of the Brazilian election could very well determine the fate of the Amazon rainforest.
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The South American country of Chile has become a center of lithium mining, which has boomed as demand for electric car batteries has risen. But what are the environmental costs?
