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20 years of environmental journalism, bringing you stories from those most affected by climate change, and those leading the solutions. 👇 Read at dialogue.earth/en

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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨 We are hiring a China Editor to join our editorial team. 📅 Application deadline: 12pm (GMT), Monday 2nd November. 👉 Find out more: loom.ly/9Y1NVoo
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the second essay in our Earth Ahead series, Brazil’s inaugural minister of Indigenous peoples, Sonia Guajajara calls for Indigenous representation to become permanent state policy. 🔗 Read the full essay on our website: loom.ly/tZGdqyc
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Sonia Guajajara: ‘We’re not just occupying a ministry; we’re occupying politics’
Brazil’s former Indigenous peoples minister calls for Indigenous representation to become a permanent state policy
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trusted news is under attack from populist leaders and partisan commentators. And where journalism leaves a space, it is filled by disinformation and denial. We're not going anywhere. Our work has never been more urgent. And our commitment to it has never been stronger.
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today, in the first of our Earth Ahead essay series, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal argues that "besieged" multilateralism must not be abandoned, but rebuilt from the ground up. 🔗: loom.ly/BZpBZ1A
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Manuel Pulgar-Vidal: The next decade will be decisive. What comes after could be transformative
As institutions weaken and global cooperation fractures, an architect of the Paris Agreement argues the environmental movement must change how it sees the planetary crisis and rebuild from the ground up
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Environmental change is shaping our lives at too many levels for one way of seeing to be enough. Tomorrow, we launch the Earth Ahead series: 20 essays from thinkers across continents, disciplines and lived realities. They will not offer one answer. That is the point. 🔗: loom.ly/OtpvrIY
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Dialogue Earth at 20: ‘We will not vacate the space’
As journalism on environmental change is forced to retreat, we will continue reporting from where this change is felt most acutely
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Never more urgent. Never more possible. ➡️
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For 20 years, Dialogue Earth has understood that the full truth of the climate emergency must be reported. The climate crisis is not waiting, but neither is the transition. Both are happening now. Both are changing lives. Never more urgent. Never more possible. Dialogue Earth.
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🧵 1/6 The death toll in Nepal crossed 500 on Friday, with at least 1,900 people still missing after devastating floods hit the region on 26 August 2026, as per BBC reports. Video: Shalinee Kumari Supporting images: Down to Earth Music: Peaceful Nature by Eitan Epstein Music / Envato
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Five years after Thailand banned paraquat and chlorpyrifos, farmers and consumers remain unsafe from the overuse of other dangerous agrochemicals. But for campaigners, the war is not over. 🔗 Read the full story on our website: loom.ly/AWSLImY ✍️ Pratch Rujivanarom 📸 Luke Duggleby
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Heavily reliant on pesticides, Thai agriculture is ‘trapped in a vicious cycle’
Five years after Thailand banned paraquat and chlorpyrifos, farmers and consumers remain unsafe from the overuse of other dangerous agrochemicals
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Economist Mariana Mazzucato explores why traditional economic models fall short, and how a common-good economy can empower communities. 🔗 loom.ly/Oz2pwVE ✍️ @ferminkoop.bsky.social
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🚨 NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨 We are hiring a Brazil Editor to join our editorial team. 📅 Application deadline: 12pm (GMT), Tuesday 8th September. 👉 Find out more: loom.ly/9efi1Js
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Chadian environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim spoke to Dialogue Earth about why Indigenous perspectives are essential to Africa’s AI governance debate. 🔗: loom.ly/WXvnX_o ✍️ Brian Obara 📸 Chadpix / Alamy
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Q&A: AI governance must respect Indigenous peoples
Dialogue Earth speaks with the Chadian environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim about Indigenous perspectives on AI
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
CALL FOR PITCHES: Photo stories on the human side of Africa's solar boom! We're inviting pitches from photojournalists and photographer-and-journalist pairings on the human stories behind Africa's solar boom, and China's role in it. Find out more: loom.ly/fIxoScY
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The first report card on the world’s push to save nature is in — and not a single target was deemed to be on a fully positive trajectory. 🔗: loom.ly/D2WcWa8
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World falling short on its commitments to nature
Landmark UN review finds national biodiversity efforts are well short of 2030 targets, ahead of October’s COP17 summit in Armenia
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
At the start of his career, Gino Casassa was sceptical about whether humans were causing climate change. Today, leading Chile's Antarctic research organisation, Cassasa sees a continent where human-wrought change is obvious. 🔗: loom.ly/Jhd5HEQ
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Q&A: From climate sceptic to Chile’s voice for Antarctica
Gino Casassa, director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute, reflects on his four decades on the ice and the challenges facing Antarctica
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Heat and salt threaten to end a tradition dating back hundreds of years. Farmers and scientists are fighting back Read the full story by Regina Lam: loom.ly/_yqpxmU
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Super Oyster versus climate change in Hong Kong
Heat and salt threaten to end a tradition dating back hundreds of years. Farmers and scientists are fighting back
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Previously deadlocked talks to achieve a global treaty on plastic pollution are restarting, but some who want a strong agreement say they are being excluded. 🔗: loom.ly/QBXFZ4M ✍️ @emmaanne.bsky.social, Benard Ogembo, Conor McGlone, Louise Krüger
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As plastic talks move behind closed doors, observers worry
Previously deadlocked talks to curb plastic pollution are restarting. Some who want a strong agreement say they are being excluded
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Extreme heat is a growing but under-covered health risk. Join our panel of heat scientists and journalists in partnership with the Catch Project and Boston University — to learn how to cover heat risks and solutions in short-form social media content. loom.ly/_8fbEMU 📸Hong Kong Free Press
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Despite Cambodia's far-reaching national grid expansion, 80% of the country's rural households still rely on firewood as the primary cooking fuel. In Tonsaong village, the costs of connecting to the national grid were deemed inaccessible to many. 🔗 Read: loom.ly/mObEbsc ✍️ Eung Sea
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Cambodia’s grid has reached people who can’t connect to it
Connecting remains too expensive for many rural poor, while solar stopgap measures prove insufficient for their needs
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"I am happy that Indigenous Peoples' participation is increasing. I remember before there were only around 40 participants from the Philippines," said Minnie Degawan, an Indigenous leader from the Philippines. ✍️ Judy Ann Egay 🔗 Read the full story: loom.ly/f0j21XY
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The Philippines is failing to include Indigenous people in climate decision making
Gap between principle and practice risks widening if the country does not more fully include Indigenous people in its climate action plan
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
While refrigerants in air conditioners and heat pumps are keeping people healthy amid global warming, some experts fear a secret climate impact. 🔗 Read the full story on our website: loom.ly/YmVFxv0
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The warming risk hiding in chemicals needed to keep cool
While refrigerants in air conditioners and heat pumps are keeping people healthy amid global warming, some experts fear a secret climate impact
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
By working with a diverse range of independent social media content creators, climate communicators can break through echo chambers and reach new audiences, argues Isa Lim, Dialogue Earth's social media officer. 🔗 Read the full story: loom.ly/zy3B-Do ✍️ Isa Lim
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The climate fight must involve social media creators
Trust and influence may have already shifted to social media, where fossil fuel interests are backing creators. Climate organisations must catch up
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We’re hiring a Director of Development at Dialogue Earth. This senior leadership role will help grow long-term support for independent climate journalism, strengthen partnerships, and shape fundraising strategy across our international newsroom. 🔗 loom.ly/dkCaiIQ
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The Philippines government is aiming to bring its first nuclear power plant online by 2032. The archipelago must first develop a workforce with the expertise to design, regulate and operate nuclear facilities which are skills that have disappeared. 🔗 Read: loom.ly/BxlmZBo ✍️ G. K. Cabico
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How the Philippines is preparing its nuclear workforce for a revival
As nuclear energy returns, the government, universities and companies are training the next generation of engineers to operate and regulate it
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We’re hiring an Operations Officer to help keep Dialogue Earth running smoothly behind the scenes. 📍 London-based 🗓️ Full-time on a four-day working week 💷 Starting salary: £35,523.58 ⏰ Apply by 9am (BST), Tuesday 9 June 2026 🔗 Read the full job description and apply: loom.ly/Yy88iF4
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Speaking to Dialogue Earth, the world has become "even more short term" according to André Hoffmann, against the backdrop of deglobalisation, authoritatiran politics pulling against collective action, and war. 🔗 Read the story: dialogue.earth/en/business/... ✍️ Dipankar Ghose, Patrick Moore
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Q&A: ‘We are spending more than the planet can give us. That is a road to nowhere’
Davos trustee André Hoffmann on how short-term politics and fossil-fuel dependence are pulling the world away from climate action
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
With Southeast Asia on track to become a net gas importer, the security of its energy future remains in question, argues Putra Adhiguna. 🔗 Read: loom.ly/EP9uD1o ✍️ Putra Adhiguna
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Southeast Asia must decisively decouple from fossil fuels, starting with transport
As the region plunges deeper into an energy crisis, the way out could lie in a determined move towards EV adoption and reduced reliance on oil and gas imports
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
When Ecuador blocked a copper mine over environmental risks, the company sued — and won USD 24 million. Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) allows foreign investors to challenge government policies. Critics say it can discourage environmental regulation. loom.ly/wHH_sBc
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How investor-state arbitration throttles environmental action
Colombia could abandon investor-state dispute settlement, a system that its critics say gives foreign investors preferential treatment
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
After preparing her two children for school, then tending to the garden, Analiza Balliao walks to a makeshift camp to join a human barricade. She has been doing this for the past seven months. 🔗 Read the full story: loom.ly/PX_cu9c ✍️📷 Chantal Eco
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At the barricade: A mother’s stand against mining in Dupax del Norte
Protests by villagers in the northern Philippines have led the Senate to suspend a permit given to a gold miner owned by a UK company
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Coffee farmers in Brazil are caught between rising prices and rising temperatures. Read more: loom.ly/Ws6abCo
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The coffee farms weighing climate and the market in Brazil
In Minas Gerais state, rising prices are steering some small-scale farmers from the sustainable practices that can mitigate climate change
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Vietnam has revived its nuclear programme, but in Vinh Tuong, the site of Vietnam's proposed first nuclear power plant, many are are unemployed as their main source of income — snail farms — are being dismantled one by one. 🔗 Read the full story: loom.ly/hKrDEiw ✍️ Minh Tran
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Vietnam’s race to go nuclear leaves villagers in limbo
Vietnam wants to open its first nuclear power plant by 2031, but experts question the timeline and villagers fear for their livelihoods
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Can Africa stay at the table after its first G20 presidency? Bullying by the Trump administration has earned South Africa credit as it attempts to cement an African agenda in global economic governance Read more: loom.ly/5OoJlwE
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Can Africa stay at the table after its first G20 presidency?
Bullying by the Trump administration has earned South Africa credit as it attempts to cement an African agenda in global economic governance
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The informal dismantling of batteries exposes workers to acids, dust and flames. Millions of often low-income waste workers around the world face serious health threats from informal e-waste recycling, according to the WHO. 🔗 Read the full story: loom.ly/UtdXUbQ ✍️ Tyler Roney
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Q&A: As Thailand bets on EVs, what will happen to the spent batteries?
Dialogue Earth discusses the future of EV batteries in Thailand with Katrin Luger of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"The war in the Gulf region is being fought with weapons, but its wider consequences are economic," writes Champa Patel, executive director for governments and policy at the Climate Group, in an Op-ed. 🔗 Read the full story: loom.ly/TXZNY88 ✍️ Champa Patel
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Energy security is national security – and it starts at the subnational level
As the Gulf conflict plunges Southeast Asia into a deepening energy crisis, empowering local governments to transition from fossil fuels has never been more necessary
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Dialogue Earth journalist Julián Reingold spoke to UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi on why he believes direct engagement is the only path to peace – and why he wants to lead the UN. ✒️ & 📷 Julián Reingold 🔗 Read the full interview: loom.ly/qFJ2WjM
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“We will lose if we only have the land but not the technology" says founder of the National Battery Research Institute Evvy Kartini, when asked about the growing sales and foreign participation of EV in Indonesia. 🔗 Read: loom.ly/4fiLLbE ✍️ Joan Aurelia
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Beneath Indonesia’s big EV dreams loom local costs
Two upcoming projects aim to push the country’s EV industry forward – but without changes to the law, experts fear they could perpetuate local harms
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Q&A: ‘The sense of urgency is fast slipping away’ Dialogue Earth speaks with the new chair of the African Group of Negotiators about the continent’s priorities, finance and the declining focus on climate change. 🔗 loom.ly/ahX6EIA ✍️ Zubaida Mabuno Ismail
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Q&A: 'The sense of urgency is fast slipping away'
Dialogue Earth speaks with the new chair of the African Group of Negotiators about the continent’s priorities, finance and the declining focus on climate change
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
What is waste colonialism? First recorded in 1989, it implies that the high-consumption lifestyles of the Global North depends on offsetting its impact on environmental to countries in the Global South. What are Southeast Asian countries doing about it? 🔗 Read: loom.ly/jDsC1h4 ✍️ Isa Lim
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Waste colonialism is alive in Southeast Asia
With a global plastics treaty still out of reach, experts say the region’s piecemeal bans on waste imports move the target without stemming the flow
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🗣️ Em entrevista ao Dialogue Earth, André Corrêa do Lago, presidente da COP30, disse que a diplomacia climática precisa dar mais ênfase à agenda de ação e cooperação entre grupos de países, empresas e cidades: “Para decisões, é preciso consenso; para a implementação, não”. loom.ly/MER-bfI
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Presidente da COP30: Ação climática não pode esperar por consenso
Em entrevista ao Dialogue Earth, André Corrêa do Lago diz que a busca por consenso pode travar avanços na ação climática e defende iniciativas paralelas para acelerar a implementação
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
In an interview with Dialogue Earth, André Corrêa do Lago said an increasingly fractured world makes faster climate implementation more urgent. Read the full interview: loom.ly/0FiCC9o ✍️ Sam Meadows & Flávia Milhorance
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COP30 chief says climate implementation can’t wait for consensus
In an interview with Dialogue Earth, André Corrêa do Lago said an increasingly fractured world makes faster climate implementation more urgent
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A number of health networks were present at the COP30 climate conference hosted in Brazil last November. They called for lower emissions, funding for climate adaptation. Yet, there remains no dedicated negotiation track for health issues. 🔗 Read the full story: loom.ly/ulgXUH4 ✍️ Gus Rick
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Climate change is an inflammatory disease issue
The changing climate is a major factor in the global increase of chronic inflammatory diseases, as examples in China are showing
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Residents of US territories in the Pacific fear deep-sea mining plans hatched in Washington could damage ecosystems and disrupt traditions Read more: loom.ly/e6pELvk
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Pacific islands resist Trump’s push to mine their ocean
Residents of US territories in the Pacific fear deep-sea mining plans hatched in Washington could damage ecosystems and disrupt traditions
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Daniel Cressey @dpcressey.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"With the treaty now in force, financial obligations are no longer hypothetical." Incredibly pleased to have this important piece from the President of Palau, Surangel Whipps Jr, about the high seas treaty on @dialogueearth.bsky.social dialogue.earth/en/ocean/fin...
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Finance cannot be an afterthought for the high seas treaty
The treaty could be a huge win for ocean conservation, but the world needs to turn words on paper into action on the water, writes the president of Palau
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Daniel Cressey @dpcressey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Six years ago I noticed Lego were putting toy marine debris into ocean sets. It took me a while to get round to writing about it. Thanks to my colleagues @dialogueearth.bsky.social for believing in this slightly left field piece. dialogue.earth/en/ocean/wha...
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What a Lego ship says about the state of the ocean in 2026
A toy container vessel speaks to seemingly intractable problems facing the marine environment, writes Daniel Cressey
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Trusted journalism is increasingly vital as the energy transition becomes a defining geopolitical arena, our CEO discovered at a Sustainable Markets Initiative meeting. Read the full story: loom.ly/bancb4M ✍️ Marek Pruszewicz
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What Hampton Court revealed about the clean energy transition
Trusted journalism is increasingly vital as the energy transition becomes a defining geopolitical arena, our CEO discovered at a Sustainable Markets Initiative meeting
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Characterised by lawlessness and guerrilla violence, Amazonian mineral mining in Venezuela has attracted the US as it bids to cut off China. 🔗 loom.ly/haBAF4Y ✒️Catriona Rainsford
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How Trump’s capture of Maduro will boost Venezuela’s mineral underworld
Characterised by lawlessness and guerrilla violence, Amazonian mineral mining in Venezuela has attracted the US as it bids to cut off China
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Finance cannot be an afterthought for the high seas treaty The treaty could be a huge win for ocean conservation, but the world needs to turn words on paper into action on the water, writes the president of Palau 🔗 loom.ly/1AnvkSw ✍️  Surangel Whipps Jr
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Finance cannot be an afterthought for the high seas treaty
The treaty could be a huge win for ocean conservation, but the world needs to turn words on paper into action on the water, writes the president of Palau
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Hundreds of small-scale fisher families rely on the waters of Malampaya Sound on the Philippine island of Palawan for their livelihoods, but commercial fishing and devastating typhoons have brought fears of dwindling stocks. 🔗 Read the full story: loom.ly/U-RALak ✍️ Mirali Shukla
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Fishers in the ‘Fishbowl of the Philippines’ question their future in these waters
Typhoons and the increasing presence of commercial vessels are pushing fishers in western Philippines’ Malampaya Sound to the margins
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The Jamapa Glacier retreat is climate change in action, and an extinction affecting rivers, rural communities, industries and marine ecosystems ✍️ Rodrigo Soberanes 🔗 loom.ly/fs5BKTk
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Mexico’s final glacier is reshaping everything downstream
The Jamapa Glacier retreat is climate change in action, and an extinction affecting rivers, rural communities, industries and marine ecosystems
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Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Brazil’s data centre capacity could triple by 2030, with expansion driven by companies from China and the United States. Experts warn the growth of generative artificial intelligence is increasing demand for electricity, computing power and water. Read more: loom.ly/eWCCTp0
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‘AI for whom?’ Inside Brazil’s data centre boom
The government’s legislative push for the sector is stalling, while experts warn of its socio-environmental risks and governance gaps
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