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The Australian Defence Forces (ADF) have recently carried out trials with the maritime uncrewed surveillance vessel, called Bluebottle.

The Australian Defence Forces (ADF) have recently carried out trials with the maritime uncrewed surveillance vessel, called Bluebottle.

Lucía lives in Peru, in one of more than 50 indigenous communities along the Putumayo, an Amazonian river that marks the border between Peru and Colombia. She has a banana plantation on the Colombian side of the river, which she has not visited in months out of fear of Los Sinaloa, an armed group of […]

In the Putumayo region of the Colombian Amazon, Segundo Meneses' daily routine took him to the Chufiya river, its banks verdant and waters alive with catfish and piranha. On one morning seven years ago, he noticed a dark film lapping the shore. Where the river turned a bend, it turned to black. It was an oil slick that he says went on to sicken his young family and poison their cows and pigs.

Recent bank support for an oil company operating in the Colombian Amazon raises questions about banks' climate, environment and social commitments.