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  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Mathilde Augustin

    Tiburce Cléon was just a teenager when he began working in the vast banana plantations of Guadeloupe. For five decades, he toiled long hours in the fields under the Caribbean sun. Then, a few months after retiring in 2021, he was given a diagnosis that many of his colleagues had received before him: prostate cancer. Guadeloupe and Martinique, two French islands in the Caribbean, have some of the highest rates of prostate cancer in the world.

  • Oct 17, 2024 | rsn.org | Keerti Gopal |Mathilde Augustin

    Global Climate Legal Defense launched the report and a photo exhibit of environmentalists persecuted by governments and the fossil fuel industry at the close of last month’s Climate Week NYC. Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo was watching television in his living room in May when a group of motorcyclists pulled up outside the gates of his home in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the riders fired nine bullets into the house.

  • Oct 15, 2024 | insideclimatenews.org | Keerti Gopal |Mathilde Augustin

    Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo was watching television in his living room in May when a group of motorcyclists pulled up outside the gates of his home in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the riders fired nine bullets into the house. Seven bullets struck his living room, where he and his family were watching television. Two more entered his bedroom. No one was hurt.

  • Sep 15, 2024 | scheerpost.com | Mathilde Augustin

    By Mathilde Augustin / Inside Climate NewsOver the past few months, a string of large American asset managers have left Climate Action 100+, a global investor group created to ensure that the largest corporate emitters of greenhouse gases take action on climate change.

  • Sep 13, 2024 | insideclimatenews.org | Mathilde Augustin

    Over the past few months, a string of large American asset managers have left Climate Action 100+, a global investor group created to ensure that the largest corporate emitters of greenhouse gases take action on climate change. Their departure coincides with intensifying political debate over sustainable investing, as a variety of Republicans have sought to crack down on what they call a “climate cartel.” The backlash and withdrawal, experts say, is unique to the United States.

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RT @keerti_gopal: As the stakes of the climate crisis rise, so do the dangers of fighting it. Climate and environmental defenders are being…