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Steam’s open-door policy starts trouble with the Brazilian government

Valve, the company behind the Steam gaming platform, is currently under investigation by the Brazilian government after allowing a controversial ... Point being, Valve‘s policy regarding such dubious ... read more

Brazil: Where Free Universities Largely Serve the Wealthy

"The rate of growth of higher education in Brazil is staggering, even for us," said Edson de Oliveira Nunes, the dean of policy and development ... near the top of the long list of problems they blame ... read more

Space weather affects your daily life. It’s time to start paying attention.

She details things like solar wind, solar flares, geomagnetic storms, and coronal mass ejections—streams of charged particles and ... when dangerous space weather might be approaching. A government, ... read more

The Billionaires' Guide to Hacking the Planet

In the corner of the room, several screens are streaming CNN ... we can start ramping down the flights. Until then, stopping would cause rapid warming that could be more catastrophic than the original ... read more

Why saving the Amazon means saving more than just trees

But while preserving the trees is undoubtedly important, there’s another equally significant, but often less talked-about, aspect of the Amazon that scientists believe is in trouble ... particularly ... read more

Recycling Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About Profit.

By the end of 2018, China’s National Sword policy, which banned plastics outright ... Chinese suppliers or even big commodity exporters like Brazil and Indonesia. Chinese importers solved this problem ... read more

Haitian Migrants Turn Toward Brazil

It was, as Paul Farmer has put it, an “acute-on-chronic” event: there were countless chronic problems in ... the U.S. government has engaged in an increasingly restrictive policy of deterrence and ... read more

Why the Amazon’s Biodiversity is Critical for the Globe: An Interview with Thomas Lovejoy

IPBES Chair, Sir Robert Watson, said at the report launch: “It is not too late to make a difference, but only if we start ... the recent Brazilian policy shift towards opening up the Amazon, however, ... read more

The New Argentine/IMF Agreement: Will This Work Out As Badly As What Happened In Greece?

Uncontrolled corruption in Brazil and South Africa are causing significant problems ... for a government to be able make needed reforms, let the system digest them and see the benefits before the next ... read more

Reconnecting Cuba

And whereas China launched its open-door policy with a strategy in place ... But the island’s economic problems are bigger than just the U.S. embargo. Castro’s government had been highly dependent on ... read more

An oil scandal in Brazil complicates the race for incumbent president on eve of election

His allegations have appeared as a steady stream in a ... blame fuel price policy for hurting Petrobras, the environment and Brazil’s struggling ethanol sector, underpriced by cheap gasoline and ... read more