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Issue 59 of Renewable Matter is online
Bridges, dams, airports, water networks, power lines, gas pipelines, civil and military construction: how is the way we design, develop and manage infrastructure changing in the 21st century? From the Belt and Road Initiative to the Italian railway network, from NATO bases to reconstruction in Ukraine, RM59 has travelled the world to explore how global infrastructure is addressing the challenges of sustainability.
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Cúpula dos Povos: a no to Mercosur from the heart of the Amazon

by Cristina Guarda 19 NOV 2025 16:30

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference is taking place in a location that is at once symbol and battleground of the ongoing crisis: the Amazon. The forest, a treasure trove of biodiversit...

Tropical Forest Forever Fund: the controversial Brazilian project at the core of COP30

by Emanuele Bompan 10 NOV 2025 16:30

It is Lula's crowning achievement, his political legacy for the Amazon: a mega forest fund, the first of its kind, superior to any previous initiative, including the REDD+ carbon credit mechanism. I...

COP30: Time to act for the defenders of the planet

by María Villarreal 03 NOV 2025 16:00

Latin America faces one of its deepest contradictions: it is the most dangerous region in the world for those who defend the environment, yet it is also the birthplace of the first international tre...

Integrating Knowledge for the Conservation of Amazonian Biodiversity

by Maria Cunha 08 AUG 2025 14:45

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Amazon is the biome of superlatives. As the world's largest tropical forest and often describe...

What is the ‘empty forest syndrome’ and why it should concern us

by Inty Arcos 25 MAR 2025 11:50

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in inglese The loss of wildlife diversity and ecosystem fragmentation have triggered the phenomenon known as t...

Mining is turning the Amazon into a desert

by Roosevelt García-Villacorta 24 MAR 2025 11:50

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Imagine an arid, desolate and barren landscape, this is what the planet Mars looks like. For many ...

Panamericana and biodiversity, empathy can save the world

by Valeria Barbi 19 APR 2024 14:30

It has been almost 2 years since the 15th of July 2022 when I took the plane that allowed me to verify with my own eyes, how much and in which form human activities are changing, sometimes irreparab...