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Tapping Into COP30 To Cover Indigenous Issues [1]

COP30 negotiators from around the world gather next week in Belém, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon River. Our Voices of Environmental Justice columnist Yessenia Funes says it’s a vital opportunity to engage with the Indigenous peoples who help protect the vast rainforest region — even for environmental reporters not there in person. Here’s how to tell their stories.

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Voices of Environmental Justice [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Climate Change [5]
Economy & Business [6]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [11]
Government [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [16]
Policy [17]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region: 
International [20]
South America [21]
Visibility: 
Public [22]
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Brazil’s Amazon Deforestation Falls 11% Even As Fires Surge To Record [23]

"Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged to record levels amid a severe drought."

Agriculture [3]
Climate Change [5]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [11]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [22]
International [20]
South America [21]
Source: AP [25], 10/31/2025
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"The Amazon Rainforest's Fossil Fuel Rush" [26]

"South America's vulnerable Amazon rainforest region is a rising frontier for oil and gas drilling."

Climate Change [5]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [11]
Natural Resources [14]
Pollution [18]
Public [22]
South America [21]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [27], 10/29/2025
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"Six Ways the COP30 Climate Summit Can Succeed or Fail" [28]

"In a month’s time, nearly 200 countries will gather at the gates of the Amazon rainforest for a new round of United Nations-sponsored climate talks. But there is still intense discussion about what the main outcome ought to be."

Climate Change [5]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [11]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [22]
International [20]
South America [21]
Source: Bloomberg [29], 10/27/2025
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""Fix Our Forests Act" Draws Mixed Reactions" [30]

"A U.S. Senate committee hearing Tuesday revealed the dramatically differing views regarding the potential benefits of the Fix Our Forests Act, a bipartisan proposal that critics say would lead to logging of old-growth trees and weaken the country's environmental laws."

Biodiversity [4]
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [31]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [11]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: National Parks Traveler [33], 10/22/2025
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Trump Tariff Fight With China Means Trouble for Vast Wilderness in Brazil [34]

"Brazilian farmers are lobbying to roll back deforestation restrictions in order to sell more soybeans to the huge Chinese market."

Agriculture [3]
Climate Change [5]
Economy & Business [6]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [11]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [32]
Asia [35]
South America [21]
Source: NYTimes [36], 10/22/2025
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"To Meet Pledges to Save Forests Spending Must Triple, U.N. Report Says" [37]

"Nations are not spending enough to ensure that the forests that cover nearly a third of the planet remain healthy, according to a new United Nations report. To meet various international climate, biodiversity and land restoration goals, annual global spending needs to triple to $300 billion by 2030, the report found."

Biodiversity [4]
Climate Change [5]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Studies [38]
Forests [11]
Pollution [18]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [32]
International [20]
Source: NYTimes [39], 10/17/2025
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"‘Dismal’ Health Of World’s Forests Is Threat To Humanity, Report Warns" [40]

"Global forest health has plunged to “dismal” levels and threatens the wellbeing of humanity, warns a damning report that highlights how financial systems are pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to reduce destruction."

Agriculture [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Climate Change [5]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [11]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [41]
Public [22]
International [20]
Source: Guardian [42], 10/15/2025
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Greens File Hatch Act Complaints Against HHS, USFS Over Shutdown Messaging [43]

"An environmental advocacy group has filed complaints under the Hatch Act against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Forest Service over what it described as “partisan” messaging blaming Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown."

Activism [44]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [11]
Government [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: The Hill [45], 10/14/2025
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"Progress on Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ Stalls as Seedlings Die Off" [46]

"Countries in the Sahel region of Africa have made little progress on the “Great Green Wall,” a 5,000-mile-long band of trees planned for the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Even where communities are planting new trees, few seedlings actually survive, new research shows."

Agriculture [3]
Climate Change [5]
Forests [11]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Public [22]
Africa [47]
Source: YaleE360 [48], 10/09/2025
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