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Alexandra Popescu

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As seen in: Mongabay, Pacific Standard, Food Tank, Trellis, Mondaq, Just Style, IPP Media, Just-Food
Covers:  Environmental science, climate change, deforestation, land rights and extractive industries, Indigenous people, biodiversity, wildlife, commodities supply chains, human rights, social justice.
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Latin America editor @Mongabay. Environmental and food journalist. Opinions are my own. DMs for ideas and story tips
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In Bolivia, Indigenous communities struggle to rebuild as wildfires return

In Bolivia, Indigenous communities struggle to rebuild as wildfires return

Every Sunday, Hermindo Vies wakes up early and travels by river from his village, Asunción de Quiquibey, in B…

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In Ecuador, booming profits in small-scale gold mining reveal a tainted industry - investigation

In Ecuador, booming profits in small-scale gold mining reveal a tainted industry - investigation

About a quarter of Ecuador's gold exports from small-scale mining in 2023 originated from just three companie…

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Experts call for urgent action as invasive species threatens Brazil mangroves

Experts call for urgent action as invasive species threatens Brazil mangroves

During a field trip in May 2023 to the Cubatão mangroves in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, a cluster of wh…

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Petroperú's financial troubles could mean no oil spill remediation, communities fear

Petroperú's financial troubles could mean no oil spill remediation, communities fear

On Sept. 11, 2022, Olivia Bisa Tirko received a call from a forest guard who informed her of an oil spill in …

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Ecuador's Los Lobos narcotrafficking gang muscles in on illegal gold mining

Ecuador's Los Lobos narcotrafficking gang muscles in on illegal gold mining

The road leading to Podocarpus National Park winds around lush, forested mountains that seem to stretch endle…

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After 2-year wait, Sonoran wilderness protection law gets closer to reality

After 2-year wait, Sonoran wilderness protection law gets closer to reality

SAHUARIPA, Mexico - Where saguaro cacti give way to palm trees, some 130 miles south of the U.S. border, a sm…

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In a village divided, farmers stall massive copper mine in Colombian Andes

In a village divided, farmers stall massive copper mine in Colombian Andes

JERICÓ, Colombia - Argirio Tobón Tamayo tugs down the top branch of a coffee tree covered in waxy green leave…

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Pemex waste contaminates Mexican communities while talking 'sustainability'

Pemex waste contaminates Mexican communities while talking 'sustainability'

When the machines and men came to bury toxic sludge on a property near her house in the Mexican state of Taba…

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Amid ravaging wildfires in Venezuela, experts cite institutional collapse

Amid ravaging wildfires in Venezuela, experts cite institutional collapse

CARACAS, Venezuela - In early March, a series of wildfires ravaged the savannas of Canaima National Park, a U…

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In Brazil, half a century of salt mining sinks a city, displacing thousands

In Brazil, half a century of salt mining sinks a city, displacing thousands

Streets lie deserted. Gardens have overgrown homes. Doors and windows are bricked up. The Bebedouro neighborh…

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Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river

Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river

As dawn began to break in the Peruvian Amazon on March 5, an oil slick spread across the Puinahua River in th…

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Report links H&M and Zara to major environmental damage in biodiverse Cerrado

Report links H&M and Zara to major environmental damage in biodiverse Cerrado

Clothing giants H&M and Zara have been linked to large-scale illegal deforestation, land-grabbing, violence a…

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Panama delays promised relocation of sinking island community

Panama delays promised relocation of sinking island community

Plans to relocate an Indigenous community from a tiny Caribbean island off Panama to the country's mainland t…

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Indigenous efforts to save Peru's Marañon River could spell trouble for big oil

Indigenous efforts to save Peru's Marañon River could spell trouble for big oil

Living deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Kukama Kukamiria Indigenous community have spent generations with the…

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