Dialogue Earth

08/06/2026

Behind a purple facade in central Manaus, a fast-growing Brazilian city of over two million people, lies a leading hub for Indigenous medicine in the city. Patients travel over 800km for the centres expertise in bahsese, a series of rituals for protection, the prevention of ill health, and healing.

💬 “We are faced with various models of knowledge. Science is one model, and Indigenous peoples have another. What we need is to learn to engage in dialogue across these differences,” says João Paulo Barreto, researcher and lecturer in social anthropology at the Federal University of Amazonas.

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08/06/2026

Indigenous territories cover 13 to 14 million hectares of the Philippines, and are central to mitigation efforts as well as the country's resource development strategy. Yet the territories are under increasing pressure from mining, renewable energy, and infrastructure projects.

Mining reforms have accelerated under the administration of Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., the government's "transition economy" positions critical mineral extraction at its ore. A significant share of the Philippines' mineral resources overlaps with Indigenous Peoples' territories, which are recognised under the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act. Despite limited formal government representation, Indigenous leaders from the Philippines still participated in the UN Climate Change Conference COP30 last year through civil society organisations.

💬 "I am happy that Indigenous Peoples' participation is increasing. I remember before there were only around 40 participants from the Philippines. Of course, resource are always a question, which is why not everyone can be included, but I hope there will be efforts to bring in more Indigenous Peoples" said Minnie Degawan, a Kankanaey-Igorot Indigenous leader from the Cordillera Province in Northern Philippines told Dialogue Earth.

✍️ Judy Ann Egay
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Gap between principle and practice risks widening if the country does not more fully include Indigenous people in its climate action plan

04/06/2026

While air conditioners and heat pumps are keeping people healthy amid global warming, some experts fear a secret climate impact.

These technologies rely on refrigerant chemicals, which, if they end up in the atmosphere, can become greenhouse gases with warming effects thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide.

Researchers say more attention needs to be paid to what exactly is being used, how it is working and how it is disposed of. In some places, simple measures like painting roofs white can reduce the need for cooling in the first place, they say.

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✍️ Emma Bryce
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While refrigerants in air conditioners and heat pumps are keeping people healthy amid global warming, some experts fear a secret climate impact

03/06/2026

For hundreds of years, global traders have faced a problem: how to transport goods as quickly as possible from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The Panama Canal, which cuts through the narrow Central American isthmus, was a solution to that problem.
However, as the canal has become slower and pricier, the hunt for other trade routes linking the west of the Americas with the east has intensified.
A proposed railway link from Brazil’s Atlantic coast to Peru’s Pacific would cut shipping times to Asia by up to 10 days. This ‘strategic route’ would transport agricultural and mining goods such as iron ore, soybeans, wood pulp, meat and cotton.
But some activists fear further development could lead to a repetition of the past patterns: infrastructure built, with environmental and community costs left unaddressed.
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02/06/2026

Inside a Dupax del Norte barricade set up as a resistance against mining, a dozen residents from surrounding villages gathered. The women wash dishes, sort out donated vegetables, and set a fire on the stove. The men axe wood. Some people sip coffee, while others huddle around a laptop watching their barricade on the news — a barricade that eventually sparked senators’ inquiry into the issuance of a miner’s permit, and finally suspended it.

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29/05/2026

Researchers at have found that nearly 12 million hectares of ocean along the West Kalimantan coast, stretching away from Borneo toward South Sumatra, function as a single interconnected system of highways. These highways carry larvae along ocean currents from spawning grounds to nursery habitats over 100km away.
If animals depend on connectivity at this scale, management has to operate at this scale too, argues Adam Miller, executive director of Planet Indonesia in a new op-ed for Dialogue Earth.
The biology says the solution is networked. The funding needs to be too, he tells us.
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✍️ Adam Miller
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26/05/2026

Today, fewer people get their news from traditional print, broadcast, or even web outlets than before, turning instead to independent social media content creators.

By working with a diverse range of creators, climate communicators can break through echo chambers and reach new audiences, argues Isa Lim, Dialogue Earth's social media officer. NGOs working on agriculture, for instance, could train food creators on how to talk about and reduce the carbon footprint of their recipes. Campaigners working on aviation emissions could work with travel vloggers to write lower-emission itineraries focussed on ground transport. These partnerships could unlock new forms of action from the “silent majority” – people who want more government action on climate change, but have yet to speak up.

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✍️ Isa Lim

Trust and influence may have already shifted to social media, where fossil fuel interests are backing creators. Climate organisations must catch up

22/05/2026

After Chile’s deadliest wildfire in recent history, some residents left. Others stayed and began preparing for the next fire.
In Canal Chacao, a community on the edge of the forest in Chile’s Valparaíso region, neighbours have organised evacuation plans, cleared vegetation, planted fire-resistant succulents and built their own warning systems in response to increasingly destructive fires.

But for many residents, the question remains unresolved: stay, or leave?

“Before, it never even crossed our minds that Canal Chacao could burn. Now, I think it could happen again.”

This is the third of a four-part series on displacement shaped by conflict and climate extremes.

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✍️ Muriel Alarcón

Some have migrated from the Valparaíso region, but others have organised to remain in the face of advancing forest fires

19/05/2026

As funding for independent climate journalism becomes increasingly challenging, we’re looking for someone who can strengthen existing partnerships, build new relationships, and help grow long-term support for our work.

This is a senior leadership role working closely with the CEO, trustees and colleagues across the organisation to develop fundraising strategy, lead high-quality proposals, and support journalism that brings local perspectives into global conversations on climate and sustainability.

📍 London-based
🗓️ Full-time (with part-time or compressed hours considered)
💷 Starting salary: £72,500
⏰ Apply by 9am (BST), Tuesday 16 June 2026

We’re looking for someone with significant experience in partnerships, philanthropy or fundraising, strong relationship-building skills, and a strategic understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing independent media and the non-profit sector.

At Dialogue Earth, we produce fact-based environmental journalism in eight languages, working with editors and reporters across South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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Please send applications to [email protected] with the subject line: “Application: Director of Development”

18/05/2026

Refugees in Kenya’s Kakuma camp have fled war, raids and persecution. But even in a place of safety, life must be rebuilt again and again.

The camp sits in a landscape defined by extremes; long stretches of heat and dust, interrupted by sudden, often overwhelming rain. In recent years, those swings have sharpened. Dry seasons linger. Then, when the rains come, they arrive with force. The result is what development experts and meteorologists are calling “drought-to-deluge”.

Between the two, life becomes a matter of constant recalibration for refugees.

This article is the first of a four-part series on displacement shaped by conflict and climate extremes. Across Africa, Asia and Latin America, it follows people uprooted by war, fire, drought, floods and political decisions. These experiences are shaped by specific histories but bound by a shared question: what remains of home when home itself is always under threat?

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✍️ Brian Obara
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