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Brazil-Peru railway promises faster trade to China, but at what cost?

The 4,000 km line from Brazil's Atlantic coast to Peru's Pacific is raising both economic expectations and environmental alarm in Latin America

Leaving Home series

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Leaving Home: They returned to Afghanistan, but not to stability

Millions of Afghans forced back across the border are returning to a country where conflict, climate and hardship make rebuilding fragile from the start
A residential area heavily damaged, with debris, fallen trees, and destroyed homes scattered throughout Article

Leaving Home: When home is no longer home

Millions of people move through overlapping pressures. What does the term ‘climate migrant’ mean – and what does it leave out?
scorched hillside Article

Leaving Home: She left after the fire; a Chilean community’s struggle to stay

Some have migrated from the Valparaíso region, but others have organised to remain in the face of advancing forest fires
A man rides a bicycle on a dirt path, carrying a large bundle of firewood Article

Leaving Home: They fled war; in Kakuma, refuge is fragile too

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
<p>Small-scale coffee farmers in Minas Gerais, south-eastern Brazil, are facing many climate-related challenges amidst growing global demand (Image: Lucas Ninno / Dialogue Earth)</p>
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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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