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🌎🔬 NEW Research Alert! Land drives conflict and greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in Colombia. Want to know how we measure the impact of climate mitigation through cocoa agroforestry on peacebuilding ? Join us in exploring our latest article! 🌱🕊️journals.plos.org/climate/articl…

The Venezuela Paradigm: Is Trump’s Model Intervention a Mirage? The U.S. seizure of Nicolás Maduro emboldened the Trump administration to flex its military muscle elsewhere. But in Venezuela, the medium- and long-term consequences remain uncertain. crisisgroup.org/cmt/latin-amer…

En 2025 las cifras de violencia en Colombia aumentaron. Los grupos armados crecieron. La violencia empeoró. Y la población civil pagó la cuenta. Todo lo que necesitas saber, en una sola imagen ↓

"Over 12 million people have been displaced.... The estimate of those that have been killed because of the conflict are as high as 400,000 now." WATCH Sudanese-American journalist Isma'il Kushkush underscore the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan as the country's civil war enters year four: youtube.com/watch?v=00t-mD…

#LaSillaAmazonía | En total, la inversión será de más de 540 mil millones, con los que se espera apoyar la conservación y restauración de 32 mil hectáreas, principalmente en municipios con pocos bosques, territorios indígenas y comunidades negras. lasillavacia.com/silla-amazonia…

Colombia avanza, pero no todas las regiones al mismo ritmo. Nuestro nuevo informe muestra cómo cuatro “Colombias” conviven con realidades económicas distintas. Cerrar estas brechas es clave para un crecimiento sostenible. Más: wrld.bg/mZPF50YtCO9

“If things stay like this, we’re in a worse place now than before the war,” said Mahboubeh, a translator. “A country destroyed; Khamenei replaced by another Khamenei, 30 years younger.” ft.com/content/4e048e… via @ft

I never stop admiring my people. I just drove around my neighborhood in Bucha -12 C (10 F), a gray frozen sky, and a windy snowfall. There’s no electricity, which means no heating either (unless you have gas and can power an individual boiler from charging stations). And yet: The barbershop is open. The sushi bar is open. The pastry shop downstairs is open. The supermarket is fully running on a diesel generator and all the stores inside are working too. Paying with Apple Pay is, as always, no problem. People are sitting in cafes with laptops, working. It’s cold inside, so both staff and visitors are wearing coats and gloves, warming up with tea. Mobile service works. The internet works. Nova Poshta is operating, no delays with parcels at all. The car service around the corner is open too. The moral of the story: praise the modern capitalist economy, markets, international trade, technology, and plain human diligence (and of course, first and foremost, Ukraine’s defense forces). Because only thanks to all of that can you, in the rear during wartime -- under missile attacks, with the power grid and heating being destroyed, in the middle of an unusually brutal winter -- casually take five minutes to buy a hot pizza from a warming cabinet in a supermarket.

Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

@Tolaymaruja Y la mala es que es Uribita

Berrionditas, les traemos dos noticias: La buena: vamos a tener presidenta.

#LaSillaEnVivo #SillaAmazonía tres países @NoruegaenCOL @EmbAlemaniaCOL @UKinColombia renovaron su voluntad de apoyar a Colombia @MinAmbienteCo en lucha contra la deforestación hasta 2030. En los últimos 10 años han invertido cerca a un billón de pesos. lasillavacia.com/en-vivo/norueg…

In Colombia, the #IKI demonstrates that protected areas can only succeed in the long term when they are shaped together with local communities. Discover the details ➡️ buff.ly/JeeQST9 @WWF #IKItopics #IKIvalues

La industria de los minerales críticos en Venezuela pasa por compañías estatales, pero también está vinculada a redes criminales y contrabando regional. Minerales de la Amazonía venezolana se "blanquean" al cruzar la frontera hacia Colombia. @ICGlatam crisisgroup.org/qna/latin-amer…

🚨Seguimos desenmascarando la manera vil y mentirosa de actuar de Atlas Intel. El CEO de la encuestadora me invitó a compartir sus "acierto", y naturalmente me puse a verificar las cifras. Y miren la sorpresa: Foto 1: Atlas Intel afirma ahora que para la intención de voto de las 3 consultas ellos acertaron con el 12.4%, 1.3% y 5.2%, pero las cifras que publicaron en Revista Semana al divulgar la encuesta fueron 12%, 12% y 1.8% (foto 2), cifras que el mismo CEO Andrei Roman confirmó en un comunicado que publicó contestando preguntas de Daniel Coronell. O sea, antes de las elecciones presentó unas cifras, y hoy presentó otras. ¿Y quiere alardear de esta mentira? ¿De verdad cree que en Colombia somos ignorantes o qué? 🤡🤡

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-- Hija, ¿qué es cringe? -- Papá, esto es cringe:

Nairobi city has become a total mess! People running for their lives as floodwaters swept through the streets. Cars floating. People climbing onto rooftops and on cars. Families trying to save what they can. And the thing that keeps coming to my mind is this: this rain was not a surprise. Meteorologists warned about very heavy rains days ago. Yet within hours our city is overwhelmed; roads become rivers, homes flood, businesses are destroyed, and people lose lives, livelihoods and everything. .. a pattern that we see reoccurring each time we have heavy rains. Yes, climate change is making our weather more extreme. That is real. But when rain turns into disaster this quickly, it also tells a story about our city. A story about drainage systems that don’t work. About wetlands that have disappeared. About buildings rising everywhere without proper planning, including on riparian land. A story of non-existent storm water drainage system. This cannot be normal and I don’t think people are angry enough! We have a long way to go on disaster preparedness, emergency response, and leadership that takes these realities seriously. Because what we are witnessing today is the cost of ignoring the climate reality we are living in. And now there is another silent crisis growing beneath our feet; the explosion of undocumented boreholes across Nairobi. More than half of the boreholes in this city are believed to be unregulated. No clear monitoring. No clear understanding of what it is doing to our groundwater systems. We are draining the aquifers below us while paving over the natural systems that protected us above. Floods on the surface. Water insecurity underground.

IS 👏 IT 👏 WAR 👏

Con apoyo de EE.UU., Ecuador destruyó un campamento de los Comandos de la Frontera en Sucumbíos. En 2025 advertimos sobre el aumento de riesgos de conflicto en la trifrontera entre Colombia, Ecuador y Perú / @AmazonUworld @amazonwatch 🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪 amazonunderworld.org/es/?policy-pap…

Durante años, el debate sobre igualdad de género se centró de manera correcta en acceso a educación, empleo y derechos políticos y sociales de las mujeres. Hoy, sin abandonar esas agendas, es necesario ampliar la mirada hacia la igualdad en el cuidado: elcolombiano.com/opinion/column…

4 of the 6 most populous countries in Latin America, 3 of them with groups on the State Department's "terrorist list," were not present for Donald Trump's "counter-cartel" summit in Florida today.

@RodrigoboteroG @anajuegaconnada @infopresidencia @EmbAlemaniaCOL @IreneVelezT @HodgsonGeorge @FcdsOrg @FuerzasMilCol

Años de trabajo de restauración en La Lindosa , perdidoa. Incendios provocados y fuera de control . Quien podra apoyar el grupo de bomberos de Guaviare? Auxilio ⁦@infopresidencia⁩ ⁦⁦@EmbAlemaniaCOL⁩ ⁦@IreneVelezT⁩ ⁦@HodgsonGeorge⁩ ⁦@FcdsOrg⁩ ⁦