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Apple settles with Brazil's regulator to allow alternative app stores; report: Apple will charge a 5% fee for alt app stores and 15% on App Store linkouts (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/24/new-app-store-fee-structure-in-brazil/<…

Apple to Introduce New App Store Fee Structure in Brazil Following Antitrust Settlement
Brazilian regulators have approved a settlement that will require Apple to change how the App Store operates on iPhone in the country, including...

"Brazil expands Indigenous territories as COP30 protests spotlight the stakes"
#Brazil #COP30 #ClimateSummit

Brazil expands Indigenous territories as COP30 protests spotlight the stakes | The Optimist Daily
Brazil recognizes 10 new Indigenous territories during COP30, strengthening land rights and offering hope for forest protection amid rising tensions.

Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup (Tom Phillips/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/25/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-prison
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p93#a251125p93

"In Brazil, a new label gives more visibility to deforestation-free beef"
#Brazil #Animals #Food

In Brazil, a new label gives more visibility to deforestation-free beef
Amid growing pressure for beef supply chains to be deforestation-free, a new certification system in Brazil will allow meatpackers, importers and retailers to guarantee that the meat cuts they sell are not associated with deforestation. Down the line, this could also help companies become compliant with the European Union’s regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). The […]

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

"Brazil greenlights oil drilling in Amazon as environmentalists raise alarm"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #FossilFuels

EU touts climate leadership while undermining antideforestation rules, critics say https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/eu-touts-climate-leadership-while-undermining-antideforestation-rules-critics-say/

EU touts climate leadership while undermining antideforestation rules, critics say
BELÉM, Brazil — At a Nov. 19 press conference at the U.N. climate summit currently underway in Brazil, European Union officials spoke for half an hour without a single mention of forests or efforts to halt deforestation — even though COP30 is taking place in a city dubbed the “gateway to the Amazon.” For Boris […]

U.N. summit ends without agreement on phasing out fossil fuels : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/22/nx-s1-5615207/u-n-climate-talks-end-cop30-brazil

Is there anyone in #brazil who would help me by purchasing some (small/lightweight) #retrocomputing items available domestically from mercadolivre and ship them to me in Germany? #followerpower

🪏 Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/brazil-dismantles-hundreds-of-illegal-dredges-in-major-amazon-mining-crackdown/

Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Brazilian police backed by Interpol have destroyed hundreds of dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River, in one of the biggest coordinated crackdowns yet on criminal networks operating across the Amazon Basin. The international police agency said officers dismantled 277 floating mining rafts worth an estimated $6.8 million. […]

"Keir Starmer will attend Cop30 in Brazil, No 10 confirms"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #COP30

A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his &qu…

White House hedges on Trump's curious claim about his call with Brazil's Bolsonaro (Steve Benen/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-trump-bolsonaro-phone-call
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p94#a251125p94

Brazil's ex-president Bolsonaro arrested over alleged plot to escape and avoid 27-year prison term (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-bolsonaro-prison-arrest-d68ae43b99762c577efe7e6ba20b0542
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p86#a251122p86

Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/brazil-fast-tracks-paving-controversial-highway-in-amazon-with-new-licensing-rul…

Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts through one of the most intact parts of the Amazon Rainforest in northwestern Brazil. The BR-319 highway runs through 885 kilometers (550 miles) of rainforest, connecting Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, with Rondônia state farther […]

Study Shows Plant-Based Agroforestry Could Double Rural Income in Brazil https://vegconomist.com/agriculture-agribusiness/study-shows-plant-based-agroforestry-could-double-rural-income-brazil/

Study Shows Plant-Based Agroforestry Could Double Rural Income in Brazil - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new study presented at the COP30 summit in Belém has found that shifting from livestock farming to plant-based agroforestry can significantly increase the

"Brussels files declaration of intervention, joining Brazil, Colombia, Ireland, Mexico, Spain and Turkey in supporting the case against Israel at the World Court"
Belgium joins South Africa's genocide case against Israel | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/belgium-joins-south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel/

Strong winds topple Brazil's
Statue of Liberty replica
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-12-16/Strong-winds-topple-Statue-of-Liberty-replica-in-Brazil--1J9N9EgK8ve/p.html

Strong winds topple Statue of Liberty replica in Brazil
A replica of the Statue of Liberty collapsed during a powerful storm in Guaiba, Brazil, on Monday. The replica, nearly 24 meters tall, was installed in 2020 as a promotional symbol for a Brazilian retail store chain called Havan. No injuries were reported,

Trump, Lula Seek Meeting in Malaysia as Brazil Eyes Tariff Cut (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/trump-lula-seek-meeting-in-malaysia-as-brazil-eyes-tariff-cut
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p44#a251022p44

The cyber news machine never stops cranking away, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The US, UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting providers,
--Alice Guo sentenced to life for running scam compound,
--Samourai Wallet operator sentenced to four years,
--SK Telecom rejects breach mediation proposal,
--USBP is massively surveilling Americans,
--Trump to preempt state AI …

The US, UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting providers
Alice Guo sentenced to life for running scam compound, Samourai Wallet operator sentenced to four years, SK Telecom rejects breach mediation proposal, USBP is massively surveilling Americans, Trump to preempt state AI safety laws, Eternidade Stealer gets more aggressive in Brazil, much more

Bei der #Cop30 in Belém stellen #FossilFuel-Lobbyisten etwa einen von 25 Teilnehmenden.
Mit über 1.600 Vertreterinnen und Vertretern übertreffen sie alle Länderdelegationen außer #Brasilien.

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

From 350.org
🧵Long thread 9
This week, Carney’s Billionaire Budget passed by a narrow margin.
This budget is part of a dangerous pattern of disregard for people and the planet. A pattern that attracted international attention this week at the UN climate negotiations in Brazil, where Carney’s absence and agenda earned Canada the dubious dishonour of being named the “Fossil of the Day.”
Here’s a list of the most alarming developments in Canadian climate politics in the…

"Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals"
#FossilFuels #Cliamte #ClimateChange

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals
The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a paper published in the journal Nature and signed by experts Martí Orta, Gorka Muñoa and Marcel Llavero, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and Guillem Rius, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IS…

Germany's chancellor really is doing everything he can to continue his far-right fishing expeditions, this time on the back of Brazil. That'll ultimately probably lead to him paving the way for Nazi Germany 2.0 even more…
El canciller alemšn Merz y su paso en falso en Brasil – DW – 19/11/2025
https://www.dw.com/es/contento-de-poder-volver-a-alemania-merz-enfurece-a-brasil/a-74812629?maca=spa-rss-sp-inter-1008-rdf

I spent some more time on AI coding evaluation tooling using the new #AWS open source Standard Operating Procedure system, and now I have an automated leader board. It rates the #Claude-flow hive mind version as better than the Claude-flow swarm version from a month before. Next step is to run some more …

Omnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a NC state senator and CNN Brazil found the company had used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads (Emmanuel Felton/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/11/30/deep-fake-whirlo…

Deepfake of North Carolina lawmaker used in award-winning Whirlpool video
North Carolina state Sen. DeAndrea Salvador discovered her 2018 TED Talk had been altered by an ad agency working for Whirlpool in Brazil, leading to a lawsuit.

Dear people of Brazil, I'd like to apologise for our chancellor, a man of wealth and no taste with a virtually endless list of shortcomings.
I know it's frustrating having to deal with his BS, we have to do it every day over here. And consider also how good you have it: at least you can call him what he clearly, indulgently and unapologetically is without any fear of punishment.

"Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says"
#FossilFuels #Brazil #Climate

Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says
This November, as Brazil opened the curtains to host the UN Climate Conference (COP30), in its Pará state capital, Belém, the troubles orbiting the country’s environmental agenda were featured in a new report by U.S.-based conservation technology nonprofit SkyTruth, which is dedicated to satellite-based environmental monitoring. In the run-up to the climate summit, the study […]

Brazil Supreme Court strikes down Indigenous land time-limit doctrine for second time | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/brazil-supreme-court-strikes-down-indigenous-land-time-limit-doctrine-for-second-time/

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals #climate

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals
The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a paper published in the journal Nature and signed by experts Martí Orta, Gorka Muñoa and Marcel Llavero, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and Guillem Rius, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IS…

During the #COP30 climate conference in Brazil, Australia's opposition party withdrew from the country's net-zero by 2050 target. It now sees net-zero as a potential 'welcome outcome' of using Australia's resources (coal, gas) plus new energy technologies. Reckless.

Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target
The decision brings the party closer to the Nationals, which ditched its support for the target earlier this month amid internal turmoil over the Coalition's policy.

Mining company BHP has been found liable for a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, known as the country's worst-ever environmental disaster, by London's High Court.
The dam collapse killed 19 people, polluted the river and destroyed hundreds of homes.
UK court finds mining firm liable for Brazil's worst environmental disaster - BBC News

UK court finds mining firm liable for Brazil's worst environmental disaster
The 2015 dam collapse killed 19 people, polluted a river and destroyed hundreds of homes.

UN climate talks end with deal for more money to countries hit by climate change (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/climate-cop30-brazil-talks-global-warming-17b1f32b1e3ac97f565553bc911b2a2c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p61#a251122p61

'We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’
Brazilian president Lula tells the Cop30 summit
Turkey is set to host next year’s summit
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/…

Since Trump is not going, California Gov. Newsom headed to Brazil next week for COP30 climate summit https://ground.news/article/california-gov-newsom-headed-to-brazil-next-week-for-cop30-climate-summit

🏭 Chilean pulp giant Arauco’s history of pollution trails it to Brazil biodiversity site
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/chilean-pulp-giant-araucos-history-of-pollution-trails-it-to-brazil-biodiversity-site/

Chilean pulp giant Arauco’s history of pollution trails it to Brazil biodiversity site
A Chilean company with a history of pollution has begun building a new pulp and paper mill in Brazil, threatening to turn a highly biodiverse region into a “green desert” of eucalyptus monoculture, experts warn. Arauco announced in April this year that it would begin work on the Projeto Sucuriú site in Inocência municipality, in […]

Investigation Finds Over 300 Industrial Agriculture Lobbyists Participated In COP30 Climate Talks https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/industrial-agriculture-lobbyists-cop30-climate-talks/

Investigation Finds Over 300 Industrial Agriculture Lobbyists Participated In COP30 Climate Talks
More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists attended this year’s COP30 event in Brazil, according to a new investigation

Omnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a NC state senator and CNN Brazil found the company had used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads (Emmanuel Felton/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/11/30/deep-fake-whirlo…

Deepfake of North Carolina lawmaker used in award-winning Whirlpool video
North Carolina state Sen. DeAndrea Salvador discovered her 2018 TED Talk had been altered by an ad agency working for Whirlpool in Brazil, leading to a lawsuit.

"Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber most delegations at COP30 climate talks in Brazil"
#Brazil #FossilFuels #Climate

One in 25 COP30 attendees is a fossil fuel lobbyist, analysis finds
Analysis finds 1,600 fossil fuel representatives at UN climate summit in Brazil, outnumbering almost every country delegation.

Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee (Tom Phillips/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/far-right-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-arrested-in-brazil
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p40#a251122p40

We need to talk about these hideous flag cones countries have been using for a couple of years now to give the appearance of a waving flag in the background of a conference when filmed from the front

The dirty reality underpinning Brazil's social programmes: #extractivism.
Yes, that 'pink tide' was also a brown tide.
Brazil’s government greenlights oil drilling near mouth of the Amazon River | Morning Star

Brazil’s federal police on Saturday arrested former president Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he was plotting to escape and avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
The decision laid bare some of the country’s divisions, with many uncorking Champagne outside the far-right leader’s prison to celebrate as his supporters prepared a religious act in his favor.
In a dramatic and unexpected twist in the final stage of a long and divisive criminal trial, feder…

Brazil’s Supreme Court orders arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro over claims he was planning to escape before starting his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. Bolsonaro, who has been under house arrest, was taken to the federal police headquarters in Brasilia on Saturday after his ankle monitor was reportedly violated. Justice Alexandre de Moraes cited a video by Bolsonaro's son urging supporters to protest, which he said showed intent to create chaos. Bolsonar…

"Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Climate Action Tracker update.
The world is now anticipated to heat up by 2.6C above preindustrial times by the end of the century"
#ClimateCatastrophe

New malware leverages WhatsApp to target Brazilian government and businesses https://therecord.media/brazil-malware-whatsapp-sorvepotel

U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/22/climate-summit-brazil-agreement/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYzNzg3NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY1MTY5OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjM3ODc2MDAsImp0aSI6Ijk1NGJhZGQ3LWE1OWQtNDM3NC1iY2E3LTAwYmRmMmNlOWQ1YiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjUvMTEvMjIvY2xpbWF0ZS1zdW1taXQtYnJhemlsLWFncmVlbWVudC8ifQ.A7GIY_0EDsMcI4WRM5XH7fHNTz_zZU7nFRRcRjXveLw&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p58#a251122p58

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

NFL locks in Rio: Brazil's most iconic city to host 2026 regular-season game under new five-year plan

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-loc

How Brazil's Pix digital payment system, adopted by 80% of citizens, became a target of the Trump administration, which says it unfairly undercuts US companies (Ana Ionova/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/world/americas/brazil-digital-pay…

Brazil’s Homegrown Payment System Is Target of Trump Administration
Brazil’s fast and free homegrown digital payment system, PIX, has become wildly popular. The Trump administration says it unfairly undercuts U.S. companies.

Brazil's Lula says 'multilateralism will win' despite Trump opposition (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-says-multilateralism-will-win-despite-trump-opposition-2025-11-23/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p12#a251123p12

Isto vai acontecer muito mais frequentemente depois desta guerra acabar, e seja qual for o seu resultado. A experiência ganha ali, de ambos os lados do combate, vai ser usada para fazer muita, muita merda pelo mundo inteiro.
Obrigadinho, Fidaputin.

Brazilian foreign fighters in Ukraine sound alarm about infiltration by South American gangs
At first glance, a YouTube interview with Philippe Marques Pinto looks like one of dozens of others in Ukraine’s long-running campaign to recruit South American soldiers to bolster its ranks in the fight against Russia. “I worked as a private security guard in Brazil, and when I arrived here, I got training, and it was just a question of adaptation,” Pinto says in an April 25, 2025, video for the Foreign Recruitment Center, a channel run by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry. But according to…

Global climate negotiations ended on Saturday in Brazil
with a watered-down resolution that makes no mention of fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming.
The final statement included plenty of warnings on the cost of inaction
but few provisions for how the world might address dangerously rising global temperatures head-on.
A marathon series of frenetic Friday night meetings ultimately salvaged the talks in Belém, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest.
The …

COP30 Climate Summit Ends With Dire Warnings and Scant Plans for Action
The final agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels that are dangerously heating the planet, was a victory for oil-producing countries.

The Helen Glanville - A Second Chance Podcast
Here you'll find Helen Glanville's guest interviews and media appearances as she shares the remarkable true story behind her husband Richard Geoff Glanville, a former white-collar criminal extradited from Brazil to Australia...
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"Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30"
#Brazil #COP30 #Environment

Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30
Tropical countries from Cameroon to Colombia could earn tens of millions of dollars a year under a novel approach to protecting the world's rainforests being launched at the COP30 summit in Brazil.

Since 2019, Brazil's courts have developed or implemented over 140 AI projects that have helped make the country's overburdened judicial system more efficient (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-ai-courts-lawsuits/

AI is helping judges to quickly close cases, and lawyers to quickly open them
Brazil’s overburdened courts and lawyers are adopting artificial intelligence. But experts wonder whether it serves justice.

Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/brazil-charges-31-people-in-major-carbon-credit-fraud-investigation/

Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation
Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted 31 suspects for fraud and land-grabbing in a massive criminal carbon credit scheme in the Brazilian Amazon, according to Brazilian national media outlet Folha de S.Paulo. It is the largest known criminal operation involving carbon credit fraud to date in the nation. The police probe, called Operation Greenwashing, was launched […]

"As Brazil Cracks Down on Forest Clearing, Emissions Fall"
#Brazil #Climate #ClimateChange

As Brazil Cracks Down on Forest Clearing, Emissions Fall

"Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Trees

Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts through one of the most intact parts of the Amazon Rainforest in northwestern Brazil. The BR-319 highway runs through 885 kilometers (550 miles) of rainforest, connecting Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, with Rondônia state farther […]

Internal docs show Meta's Vibes AI video feed has about 2M DAUs as of November 9, up 1% from the previous week; ~52% of returning users prompted the AI (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-vibes-ai-internal-…

Internal documents show how many people are using Meta's Vibes AI feed each day
The documents show Meta Vibes' daily usage and global growth trends, highlighting user engagement in India, Brazil, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

"Revealed: Soap Opera-inspired Clean Energy Ads Helped Shell Boost Petrol Sales in Brazil"
#Brazil #Shell #FossilFuels

Revealed: Soap Opera-inspired Clean Energy Ads Helped Shell Boost Petrol Sales in Brazil
British-owned VML used positivity of clean energy to build brand awareness that increased fuel sales, documents show.

The most prominent American voice at the COP Climate Summit in Belém was that of the California governor, Gavin Newsom.
During the five days he spent in Brazil, Newsom described Donald Trump as an “invasive species”
and condemned his rollback of policies aimed at reducing emissions and expanding renewable energy.
Newsom, long considered a presidential hopeful, argued that,
as the US retreated, California would step up in its place as a
“stable, reliable” climat…

Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/offshore-fossil-fuel-exploration-jeopardizes-brazils-climate-leadership-study-says/

Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says
This November, as Brazil opened the curtains to host the UN Climate Conference (COP30), in its Pará state capital, Belém, the troubles orbiting the country’s environmental agenda were featured in a new report by U.S.-based conservation technology nonprofit SkyTruth, which is dedicated to satellite-based environmental monitoring. In the run-up to the climate summit, the study […]

"Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown"
#Brazil #Environment

Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in Amazon mining crackdown
Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in one of the largest coordinated crackdowns in the Amazon. The raids targeted criminal networks behind environmental crimes and were supported by officers from six Amazon countries. Authorities collected forensic samples to trace pollutants, while follow-up investigations aim to dismantle the illicit gold trade’s financial networks.

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

Senate rejects Trump tariffs on Brazil
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/trump-tariffs-brazil-senate-vote-republicans

"Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown"
#Brazil #Environment

Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Brazilian police backed by Interpol have destroyed hundreds of dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River, in one of the biggest coordinated crackdowns yet on criminal networks operating across the Amazon Basin. The international police agency said officers dismantled 277 floating mining rafts worth an estimated $6.8 million. […]

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/five-crucial-earth-systems-near-a-tipping-point-report/

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report
Five of Earth’s vital systems are close to a point of irreversible change, warns a new report released by a global network of scientists ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate change conference in Brazil. The 2025 Global Tipping Points report updates a 2023 report to assess 25 Earth systems that human societies and economies depend […]

"Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?"
#Brazil #COP30 #ClimateSummit

Lula at climate summit: US might not be gone for good (Sara Schonhardt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/20/brazil-lula-united-states-cop30-00661415
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p54#a251120p54

"Germany promises support for Brazil's tropical forest protection scheme at UN climate talks"
#Germany #Brazil #UN

Germany pledges support for Brazil's tropical forest protection scheme
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility seeks seeks to leverage investments into €108 billion that can be used to pay 74 developing countries for every hectare of forest they conserve.

TikTok plans to invest $37.7B to build a data center in Brazil's port of Pecém, partnering with Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, its first Latin American project (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/tikto…

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn't. (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-year-old-everett-massachusetts-brazil
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p42#a251015p42

Millions of Brazilians unknowingly eat toxic, endangered shark: How Mongabay broke the story https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025/12/millions-of-brazilians-unknowingly-eat-toxic-endangered-shark-how-mongabay-br…

Brazilian government serves shark to infants, prisoners and more: How Mongabay broke the story
Mongabay senior editor Philip Jacobson joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss a two-part investigation published this year in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center about how state governments in Brazil have been procuring shark meat — which is high in mercury and arsenic — served to potentially millions of schoolchildren and thousands of public institutions. With Mongabay’s […]

"Brazil eyes April 2026 for first battery storage auction"
#Brazil #Batteries #Energy

Brazil eyes April 2026 for first battery storage auction
A 20-day public consultation is anticipated to open in November to define the guidelines for the auction, which aims to contract 2 GW of battery energy storage systems (BESS). The initiative could unlock around R$10 billion ($1.85 billion) in investments.

Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 - DeSmog https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/mapped-big-foods-routes-to-influence-at-cop30/

Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement alive. More than 50,000 people are expected to attend, from heads of state to civil society groups. But as attention […]

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

Trump says US, Brazil will 'do very well together' following call with Lula (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/trump-us-brazil-lula-00595000
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p93#a251006p93

Fresh off redistricting win, Newsom to head to climate talks in Brazil (Camille Von Kaenel/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/fresh-off-redistricting-win-newsom-to-head-to-climate-talks-in-brazil-00639304
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p18#a251106p18

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

AltStore, one of the first alternative app stores in the EU, raised a $6M Series A led by Pace Capital, aims to launch in Australia, Brazil, and Japan in 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/alternative-app-st…

Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch
The alternative app marketplace AltStore has raised $6 million and launched a Mastodon server.

Trump Hit Brazil With Punitive Tariffs for Prosecuting His Ally But Promised Argentina a $20 Billion Taxpayer Bailout to Help His Other Pal Win Election: An Executive Watch Roundup (Robert Tracinski/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-hit-brazil-with-punitive-tariffs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p31#a251004p31

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

Global treaty to end subsidies for destructive fishing takes effect https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/global-treaty-to-end-subsidies-for-destructive-fishing-takes-effect/

Global treaty to end subsidies for destructive fishing takes effect
A landmark global treaty to curb billions of dollars in government subsidies for overfishing took effect on Sept. 15, Mongabay contributor Elizabeth Fitt reported. The agreement marks the first time the World Trade Organization (WTO) has approved an environmental sustainability agreement in its 30-year history. The deal came into effect after Brazil, Kenya, Tonga and […]

Senate rejects Trump tariffs on Brazil (Stef W. Kight/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/trump-tariffs-brazil-senate-vote-republicans
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p141#a251028p141

"Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence"
#Atlanic #Parrots #Animals

Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence
Twenty brilliantly colored red-browed amazons took flight over a reserve holding one of the few remaining intact swaths of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The green-and-red parrots had been missing from Alagoas state for generations. In January 2025, the birds returned home. Researchers say releasing the red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha) will help the species rebound and […]

5 GOP senators vote to pass resolution terminating Trump's Brazil tariffs (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5577914-five-gop-senators-terminating-trump-brazil-tariffs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p151#a251028p151

Climate protesters demand to be heard as they march on COP30 with costumes and drums (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/belem-brazil-united-nations-climate-talks-cop30-2b1c95f4b54149c514b54ce81b6123d6
http://www.memeorandum.com/251115/p63#a251115p63

"Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence"
#Animals #Parrots #Birds

Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence
Twenty brilliantly colored red-browed amazons took flight over a reserve holding one of the few remaining intact swaths of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The green-and-red parrots had been missing from Alagoas state for generations. In January 2025, the birds returned home. Researchers say releasing the red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha) will help the species rebound and […]

"Cop out? Anthony Albanese wants to host the next global climate summit – so why isn’t he attending this one?"
#COP30 #ClimateSummit

"Governments commit to recognizing 160 million hectares of Indigenous land"
#Environment #Nature

Governments commit to recognizing 160 million hectares of Indigenous land
The governments of nine tropical countries recently made a joint pledge to recognize 160 million hectares, or 395 million acres, of Indigenous and other traditional lands by 2030, according to a Nov. 7 announcement at the World Leaders Summit, an event hosted ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil. The Intergovernmental Land Tenure […]

Trump won't send 'high level' representatives to COP30 climate summit (Rachel Frazin/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5583954-trump-cop30-brazil-united-nations-climate-summit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p129#a251031p129

"‘Earth 'can no longer sustain' intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30"
#COP30 #Climate #ClimateChange

Earth 'can no longer sustain' intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said Earth cannot sustain humanity's dependence on fossil fuels and without confronting this reality the climate fight will be lost.

"10 years after the Paris Agreement, world leaders are letting go of its most famous goal"
#ParisAgreement #Climate #ClimateChange

10 years after the Paris Agreement, world leaders are letting go of its most famous goal
At COP30 in Brazil, this year's U.N. climate negotiations crashed out on a hard truth: It’s all about the money.

"COP30 Action Tracker: Brazil’s oil expansion controversies and Keir Starmer’s U-turn"
#Brazil #COP30 #ClimateSummit

"Energy storage could cut Brazil’s electricity system costs 16% in 2029"
#Brazil #Energy #Batteries

Energy storage could cut Brazil’s electricity system costs 16% in 2029
Storage is essential to expand renewables penetration and ensure grid flexibility, according to a study by consultants PSR. Regulatory and tax barriers still limit the sector, however, and new revenue sources are needed to make projects viable.

"Brazil boasts drop in deforestation ahead of UN climate talks"
#Brazil #UN #UnitedNations #Deforestation

Brazil boasts drop in deforestation ahead of UN climate talks
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth straight year, the government said Thursday, a boost for the country just days before it hosts UN climate talks.

"Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation"
#Trees #Environment #Deforestation

Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Interpol and partners launched a global law enforcement effort Wednesday aimed at dismantling criminal networks behind illegal logging, timber trafficking and gold mining, which drive large-scale deforestation and generate billions in illicit profits each year. The effort announced ahead of the U.N. COP30 climate summit in Brazil will focus mainly on tropical forests […]

"Prince William to attend Cop30 UN climate summit in Brazil"
#UN #UnitedNations #COP30 #ClimateSummit