Monica Piccinini
Freelance journalist focused on environmental, health, and human rights issues. yourvoiz.org
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- A beautiful message: All you need is love. “Nature does not belong to us, we belong to nature. Nature is not a commodity, nature is a community.” theecologist.org/2026/feb/05/...
- Brazil: There’s been a push to open major rivers to private operators. President Lula issued Decree 12.600, which allows the privatisation of waterways, including major stretches of the Tapajós and Tocantins rivers in the state of Pará & the Madeira River in Amazonas. 🧵
- Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of US agribusiness giant Cargill, angered over the dredging and development of Amazonian rivers for grain exports. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
- Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of US agribusiness giant Cargill, angered over the dredging and development of Amazonian rivers for grain exports. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
- Cancer Advances in Brazil and Is Expected to Reach 781,000 Annual Cases Between 2026 and 2028. This may be linked to chemicals in food! Brazil leads in pesticide use and ultra-processed foods are replacing meals like rice and beans with burgers. www1.folha.uol.com.br/internaciona...
- Brazil audit finds 60% soy in biodiesel has irregularities in RenovaBio certification. www.spglobal.com/energy/en/ne...
- Meeting Trump’s Challenge to Human Rights. Rights-Respecting Democracies Should Unite to Preserve Fundamental Freedoms. www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
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- The Brazilian development bank has selected private funds for a multi-billion-dollar climate programme. But too often these initiatives prioritise profits over real environmental protection, a pattern we keep seeing in “green” finance. www.newprivatemarkets.com/brazilian-de...
- Brazil: The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) reaffirms anti-imperialist struggle and calls on the Brazilian pueblo for Popular Agrarian Reform. viacampesina.org/en/2026/02/b...
- The movie “Anniversary” shows how the loss of freedom doesn’t always arrive with chaos, but with small compromises people make out of fear, how extreme ideas can become normal & how silence can replace resistance! Sounds familiar?
- Water for sale: from the Thames to the Amazon Polluted rivers, collapsing ecosystems and communities left adrift. And now Britain’s water privatisation concept is being exported to Brazil. theecologist.org/2026/feb/03/...
- The Epstein files reveal what many already knew: the system isn’t broken, it’s working exactly as designed, protecting wealth, & power, while ordinary people are fed silence and lies! This is only the tip of a gigantic iceberg!
- The climate crisis won’t follow politics, it’ll reshape it! The impacts are coming regardless of party lines or talking points. Perhaps it’s time we shift our focus to that reality, right?
- Israel continues to strike Gaza! What a crazy unfair world we live in!
- From Brazil to Britain: the hidden cost of soy and beef. The destruction of the Cerrado reaches the UK through the food we eat, turning a regional crisis into a shared responsibility with global consequences. open.substack.com/pub/yourvoiz...
- Mais de 55% da vegetação nativa do Cerrado, um dos Ecodomínios mais ricos e ameaçados do mundo, já foi perdida. theconversation.com/mais-de-55-d...
- Legal setbacks against a dam in the Amazon raise questions about Brazil’s reliance on hydropower. apnews.com/article/braz...
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- I read Ray Kurzweil’s “The Singularity Is Near” back in 2006 & seeing Neuralink now implanting brain chips in the UK makes those ideas feel uncomfortably real. AI & human+machine merging are happening fast, and way ahead of the rules meant to keep us safe!
- The soy moratorium helped protect the Amazon for nearly 20 years. Weakening it ignores science and puts forests, climate, and communities at risk. theconversation.com/weakening-th...
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- The Superlist Environment Europe is the first study to rank 27 supermarkets across eight countries on their climate credentials. www.thequestionmark.org/download/sup...
- Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate But this must not become a green light for risky geoengineering fixes! They don’t tackle the root cause. Cut emissions fast, don’t gamble with the planet! e360.yale.edu/features/1.5...
- Indigenous protesters block Cargill facility in Brazil over President Lula’s decree. apnews.com/article/braz...
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- A highly contagious zoonotic virus, deadly and unstoppable, is spreading with no vaccine available. This was predicted, and it may only be the beginning! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
- The hatred driving climate denial comes from far-right fascism, an ideology terrified of truth, determined to silence science & willing to sacrifice lives and futures to protect power. Climate justice threatens their control, so they respond with denial, rage, and lies.
- A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...
- A new study warns that climate change could wipe out large areas where the Amazon’s biggest trees can survive. If emissions stay high, up to 45% of their habitat could be lost by 2080. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Brazilian miner Vale confirmed an overflow occurred in a pit at its Fabrica mine, in Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais state, early on 25 January. How can this situation continue? How is this allowed to happen? Disaster after disaster! www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
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- Countless Cambridge Analyticas, now armed with AI. This isn’t innovation, it’s a lethal political weapon undermining democracy worldwide!
- AI will displace workers at a scale many don’t realize. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
- Machines (AGI) are getting smarter than us! They could take our work, twist our truths & make decisions we can’t stop. We’re losing control of our own lives faster than we could imagine! AGI won’t care about our future once they become autonomous - we simply become obsolete!
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- Please email your local trust to keep Palantir out of the NHS. notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
