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Book Review: Dirty Gold A team of reporters unveils a real-life tale of greed, glamour, and a trail of destruction. PublicAffairs For the Incas, gold was sacred. It had no material value, but represented the blood of their sun god, Viracocha. The Inca empire disappeared centuries ago, and gold has become the epitome of material wealth, attracting illicit players that leave behind a trail of violence and pollution. As we learn in Dirty Gold, smuggling of the precious metal has been an open...

In the summer of 2019 I traveled to the Peruvian Amazon and tried something called Ayahuasca. It led me to face some deeper questions about myself and the world around me that I’d like to share more broadly. I’ve wanted to share these ideas for a while, and now seems like a good time: I’ve quit my job at Waymo and I’ve started to work full-time on an idea, , that was inspired by these experiences. This is an excerpt from a larger book that I’ll be publishing (a travel journal from my...

Kukama boys watch boats on the Amazons Maranon River near Dos de Mayo in Perus Loreto region. (CNS/Barbara Fraser) Several years ago, Rodrigo Pedroso began noticing an unusual pattern in the Indigenous villages he visited in the Amazon rainforest: Next to small, often abandoned Catholic chapels were newer, often larger evangelical churches. The observation led Pedroso, a Brazilian journalist, to examine what might be leading people in Indigenous communities to essentially swap...

Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Moms are powerful advocates for all kinds of products in their local communities. When AMARUMAYU launched its Camu Camu and Buriti Superfruit Juices to the US market in November 2020, they recognized that aligning with Moms Meet, a national community of  engaged, health-minded moms who sample natural and better-for-you products, would be a critical step in educating the conscious consumer about the AMARUMAYU Mis...

Illegal gold mining in the Amazon is a well-known practice, but advances in satellite imagery could help stamp out the practice.

by Hear a sneak preview of Sara Berts has shared a track from her ‘Ayni’ EP, due out on the Berts is a producer and composer based in Turin, who describes the ‘Ayri’ EP as “a gift from the plants and for the plants.” The field recordings flowing through the whole record come from the Peruvian Amazon forest, where she spent three months in 2019 while seeking personal healing. All the other sounds were recorded in Italy during the strict 2020 lockdown, with the two diff...

“The Europeans are right to be afraid about what is happening in Brazil,” said Marcos Boulos, an infectious disease specialist from the University of São Paulo who said uncontrolled outbreaks such as Brazil’s provided the ideal breeding grounds for variants. “The more transmission there is, the more variants appear … The situation is very, very serious,” Boulos said. This week the British government added India – which is witnessing a ferocious surge in cas...

Brazil’s ‘rapid and violent’ Covid variant devastates Latin America Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Dan Collyns in Lima © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Michael Dantas/AFP/Getty Images As a coronavirus variant traced to the Brazilian Amazon marauded through Peru’s coastal capital last month, Rommel Heredia raced to his local hospital to seek help for his brother, mother and father. “I said goodbye and promised I’d come back to take them home,” said the ...

April 22, 2021 You are here: Home / Business / Why we can’t afford to dismiss carbon offsetting in a climate crisis Why we can’t afford to dismiss carbon offsetting in a climate crisis (Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Bronson Griscom, Senior Director, Natural Climate Solutions at Conservation International We have 10 years to prevent irreversible damage to the planet due to climate ...

André Hoffmann, from the family behind Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, says he’s been pushing for environmental sustainability in business for a quarter of a century now. Throughout a career that has also seen him serve as vice president of WWF, Hoffmann says he’s been bothered by the business-as-usual principle of making money first and thinking about nature afterward. “If you destroy nature to make a profit then you are creating the problem that you then try to solve with philanthrop...