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Documento concedido pelo Ibama no governo Bolsonaro minimiza impactos ambientais e sociais da construção O post Justiça Federal mantém suspensão da licença prévia que autoriza obras da BR-319 apareceu primeiro em Brasil de Fato.

El presidente del Gobierno fulmina al núcleo duro del exsecretario de Organización, ingresado en prisión por el caso Koldo, como parte de la remodelación de la dirección del partido de cara al Comité Federal.

Ocho top-10 eliminados en primera ronda: récord absoluto en la Era Abierta.

Les quarts de finale du Mondial des clubs débutent ce vendredi 4 juillet aux États-Unis, et la hiérarchie commence à se dessiner. Cinq clubs européens, un club saoudien… et deux clubs brésiliens. Fluminense, qui défie Al-Hilal et Palmeiras, opposé à Chelsea. Leurs parcours, ainsi que ceux de Flamengo et Botafogo, bien qu’éliminés en huitièmes de finale, ont fait du Brésil l’autre place forte du football mondial après l’Europe.

به این ترتیب از زمان بازگشت طالبان به قدرت در سال ۲۰۲۱ میلادی، روسیه نخستین کشوری است که حکومت طالبان را به طور رسمی به رسمیت می‌شناسد.

El presidente Zelenski pide a los aliados europeos que refuercen la cooperación con Kiev ante un apoyo estadounidense inestable, mientras Bruselas redobla esfuerzos para cubrir el vacío que podría dejar Washington.

In other news, Detroit City Councilwoman Mary Waters calls for an investigation into a fire at an east side oil recycling facility.

(The Center Square) – Despite Republican Assembly leaders and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers having reached a budget deal to appropriate the interest earnings from unspent COVID-19 relief funds toward budget initiatives, Sen. Eric Wimberger, R-Oconto, claims there is still $4 million unaccounted for. The current 2025-27 Wisconsin biennial budget, signed into law by Evers early Thursday morning, accounts for only $171 million of the interest earnings, which Wimberger said has now ballooned up to $175 million. While $170 million will fund key budget initiatives, with most of it dedicated to child care, the remaining $4 million will continue to accrue interest if left in Evers' Department of Administration. In other words, the budget deal, which Wimberger previously said "probably solves a potential constitutional crisis," has not securely ended the months-long fight over the governor's "slush fund." "State law makes it clear that the $175 million slush fund accrued by Governor Evers was illegal," Wimberger said in a statement to The Center Square. "The legislature must be the body to appropriate these funds, and the Governor concedes this point in the budget agreement." As co-chair of the Audit Committee, Wimberger said he would continue to monitor the amount of interest accrued until all the federal COVID-19 relief money is spent. Additionally, his office affirmed that he will continue to advance the legislation co-authored with Rep. Robert Wittke, R-Caledonia, to ensure that CSLFRF interest money left unspent gets transferred into the treasury. In the budget, $115 million of the interest earnings went to fund child care initiatives, while another $50 million went to support a building commission grant program. Also, $5 million goes to a food security grant program and another $1 million goes to a UW-Green Bay high school college credit program. Joint Finance Committee co-chair Rep. Mark Born, R-Beaver Dam, previously said in an interview with The Center Square that negotiating with Evers to put the money towards actual budget initiatives was better than leaving it up to Evers' discretion or a court fight. "In our discussions with the governor, we continued to find ways to make investments – preferably one-time investments – to get the money used for something so it didn't just become a slush fund that he was just gonna try to control," Born said. The budget appropriations, in total, leave $171 million accounted for of the $175 million, the majority of which went to Evers' highest child care priorities. However, a growing $4 million in interest earnings remains with the DOA. According to federal law, all CSLFRF funds most be expended by December 31, 2026. That gives Evers until then to hand over or expend the remaining $4 million. Additionally, Wimberger criticized Evers' decision to veto four new auditors for the Legislative Audit Bureau from the budget, saying it underscores his "bad policies." "As Audit Committee co-chair, we've been able to uncover a $175 million slush fund, administrative bloat at the UW System, discriminatory DEI policies across state government, and major dysfunction at the Department of Public Instruction," Wimberger said in a statement. "Vetoing funding for new auditors is simply the Governor's attempt to stifle good government oversight of his bad policies." However, Evers stated his only reason for having vetoed the positions was that "the Legislative Audit Bureau currently has sufficient funding and position authority to fulfill its role," according to the governor's veto message. Evers' office did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment at the time of publication.

O tenente-coronel Ivan Souza Blaz Júnior, da Polícia Militar do Rio de Janeiro, foi denunciado nesta quinta-feira (3) pelo Ministério Público do estado (MPRJ) pelos crimes de constrangimento ilegal e invasão de domicílio. O caso ocorreu em janeiro deste ano, em um prédio residencial de luxo, na zona sul do Rio.  O Grupo de Atuação Especial em Segurança Pública do Ministério Público (Gaesp) também requereu a suspensão da função pública do militar.  De acordo com a denúncia, Blaz coordenou uma operação de inteligência após receber denúncia anônima de que o narcotraficante Álvaro Malaquias Santa Rosa, conhecido como Peixão, estaria em visita ao pai em um apartamento no edifício. Na ocasião, Blaz era comandante do 2º batalhão da PM, Botafogo e, mesmo sem mandado judicial ou indícios concretos de crime em flagrante, autorizou a operação e o ingresso forçado de policiais militares no imóvel.   Ele participou da ação de bermuda, com a camisa amarrada na cabeça e com um uma lata de cerveja na mão. Usando uma pistola, rendeu o porteiro e dois moradores do prédio e apreendeu os celulares das pessoas. Antes de assumir o comando do batalhão de Botafogo, Blaz foi porta-voz da corporação. Atualmente, o tenente-coronel está lotado na Diretoria-Geral de Pessoal, quando o militar fica sem função na instituição. O processo tramita junto à Auditoria da Justiça Militar da corporação. A Agência Brasil entrou em contato com a Polícia Militar e aguarda retorno.

Há duas semanas, o Google escondeu um anúncio marcante em uma postagem discreta de blog intitulada “simplificando a página de resultados de pesquisa”. A empresa afirmou que não usará mais o ClaimReview na Busca Google. Se isso não parece grande coisa, deixe-me explicar o básico: organizações de checagem de fatos em todo o mundo costumam […] O post Google mata silenciosamente uma ferramenta fundamental para a desinformação apareceu primeiro em Observatório da Imprensa.

Rachel Morton’s The Sun was Electric Light is a novel about figuring, becoming, belonging and grieving. We follow 30-something narrator Ruth as she relocates to the Guatemalan lakeside town Panajachel, struggling with the question of how to live and what it might mean to live with purpose. Ruth has left New York and arrives at Lake Atitlán a loner-searcher. Quickly, though – in spite of herself, perhaps – Ruth befriends fellow traveller Emilie. Emilie is solid and capable, a caring companion and lover. They fall into an easy routine, but Emilie soon leaves to work in Pátzcuaro and Ruth stays at the lake, befriending Carmen and Dwain. Review: The Sun was Electric Light – Rachel Morton (UQP) Carmen and Dwain, Americans who have never lived in the United States, are gregarious and beautiful. They have both grown up in Guatemala, born of hippie parents. And while Ruth’s new friends are mysterious, they are struggling with their own issues around purpose and identity. They’ve grown up by the lake – their parents could afford to buy houses there – but they aren’t fully Guatemalan. Caught between places, cultures and possible lives, Carmen and Dwain echo Ruth’s unease. Even their partying and frivolity are undercut with a sense of sombre reckoning, as though they are moving towards something irrevocable and dangerous. But Ruth is drawn to them: in part, because Carmen and Dwain understand the power of the lake. It is the lake that has pulled Ruth back to Guatemala, as though it could represent an earlier, less careworn version of herself. The novel’s first paragraph tells us, “The first time I went was ten years ago, when I still thought life would bring me things.” This gets at one of the fundamental tensions of the novel: does life bring us things, or are we responsible for manifesting those things ourselves? Rachel Morton’s novel is about about figuring, becoming, belonging and grieving. UQP The lake as ‘a powerful teacher’ Ruth discovers the lake is not a site for nostalgic fantasy, and it is not an anthropocentric reflection of self. Instead, it is a powerful entity in its own right, which guides her in figuring out how she wants to live her limited time on the planet. As she says roughly midway through the novel: “Something was happening to me but I didn’t know what, and it didn’t seem to be coming from me.” Morton does a stunning job of writing about landscape. The lake is not passive – it is not a resource to be photographed, consumed or exploited. It is not something to fear in the gothic tradition, either. Instead, it is a powerful teacher: the catalyst for Ruth’s journey. When finances become an issue, Ruth moves out of her hotel and into a modest house on the outskirts of town; she works babysitting three boys. Then, as her relationship with the lake deepens and things fray with the boys’ mother, she moves across the water to the town of Jaibalito to live in a one-room hut with no electricity, and to teach English at a small school. It is telling that her two jobs are in providing education and care: throughout the novel, Ruth is learning how to care for herself. Despite these changes, Ruth keeps in touch with Emilie – a friend who models a very different path than Carmen and Dwain. Through this contrast, and Ruth’s internal narration, Morton poignantly describes the intricacies and intimacies of friendship. Distance, longing and sadness Morton’s narration is pulled back: Ruth appears to filter her thoughts carefully before imparting them to the reader. This reserve is intriguing; it also highlights the novel’s often lyric observations. For example, Dwain is “good in the way that people are good when they have suffered a lot without knowing it”. Ruth is distanced from the people and events she recounts, so the narrated world often feels out of reach. Frequently, I found myself wondering what other characters thought of Ruth and how their points of view might differ from hers. Morton does a great job of using their reactions to leave space for interpretation, but this narratorial distance means the longing and sadness of the text can be confronting. Also, the novel explores what it means to be a tourist and the longing to belong. Because of that, it struck me that Ruth doesn’t often engage with the local Guatemalan and Indigenous residents at the lake. We see her strong relationships with the three boys she babysits. She describes Miguel, a local resident with connections who facilitates her job at the school. But there is a sense that Ruth is not interested in the people and communities that tend the lake. When describing her teaching position, she says: I made an effort not to get to know the children or to develop any special relationships. I loved them as one whole group, rather than individually. This, perhaps, represents her larger engagement with the people of the region. A book can’t be all things to all readers, but this insularity – perhaps linked with Ruth’s depression – stands out. Nonetheless, The Sun Was Electric Light was a gripping read. I devoured it on a long-haul flight: reading, sleeping, then waking up to read again. During my time in the air, I spent just over two years with Ruth as she wrestled with how to live, and what it might mean to live with purpose. By stripping back all of the busyness and distraction of life, Ruth comes to the lake – but also, she comes to herself. Shady Cosgrove does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Governments’ existing human rights obligations require them to do all they can to mitigate the harms of the climate crisis, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concluded in a new advisory opinion issued Thursday.  The seven-judge panel found that, “based on the best available science, the current situation constitutes a climate emergency.” The planetary warming […]

(The Center Square) — State data shows the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention carried out only one brush clearance operation in the Pacific Palisades before the deadly Palisades Fire killed 12 Americans and destroyed 6,837 structures, highlighting the state’s slow progress in forest management. This single Cal Fire-funded fuel reduction operation in Cal Fire's database covering 2023 to the present involved mastication of 184 acres of scrubland across the over 75,000-acre Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority between November and December 2024. This operation focused on the border between the coastal community of the Pacific Palisades and the slightly more inland Brentwood community in MRCA’s Westridge-Canyonback Park along Mandeville Canyon Road, and along the Bel-Air, eastern side of the San Diego Freeway. The 23,488-acre Palisades Fire never made it to the San Diego Freeway, and was stopped on the western side of Mandeville Canyon, suggesting the operation may have played a role in stopping the fire from spreading further east through the Santa Monica Mountains. But within the immediate Palisades area, however, CalFire’s MCRA mastication operation was only conducted on a thin sliver in Temescal Gateway Park immediately around the base of Temescal Fire Road, but not to the east or west, or even further up the road, leaving the entire Palisades community vulnerable to fire — including the treated area, which ultimately completely burned. Gov. Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, claims California is doing its fair share and urging the federal government to step up its fire prevention efforts. “It’s time for Trump to put his money where his mouth is. California has done more than our fair share of ‘raking’ the forests, now the federal government has to do its part to Make America Rake Again,” said Newsom in a July 1 statement. “We’re doing all we can to protect communities from catastrophic wildfire, will President Trump?” Southern California’s coastal areas are characterized by the chaparral ecosystem, which is defined by winter rains that produce spring blooms that dry out over the summer and feed fall fires. These fires leave nutrients for post-rain blooms in a cycle that dominated California until European development and adoption of fire suppression as fire policy. Researchers estimate approximately 1.8 million acres of California land burned every year before 1800. With the state 42.2 million hectares large, this means the entire state’s equivalent of land burned every 23 years. Historians note that the indigenous populations adopted prescriptive burn tactics of their own, with the North Fork Mono Tribe adopting 30-year burn cycles in which three or more burns are conducted in an area during the first 10 years, with just one burn over the next 20 years. As a result of practices like these and natural occurrences like lightning strikes that were able to unfold, California forest density was approximately half of what it is now, resulting in fewer but larger trees. These larger trees were not only more fire resistant due to their size, but refrained from drying out due to less competition and limited erosion. They were also less likely to spread fire from treetop to treetop, making the land more resilient to fire overall. While prescribed burns are considered most effective for managing overgrowth, mastication, or the feeding of brush and smaller trees into mulching machines, can also reduce fire spread and intensity as part of a broader fuels management strategy. According to the state of California, approximately one-third, or a million acres, of state-managed land is at “high risk from uncontrolled wildfire.” The state said as many as 15 million acres of land in California is in need of treatment. Cal Fire’s project dashboard shows it funded 141,061 acres of fuels reduction between July 2023 and June 2024, and 123,488 acres between July 2023 and May 2024. (June data is not yet available.) At this rate, it would take about seven years to clear the forest management backlog on state lands, not including the new lands added to the state’s backlog each year. Cal Fire’s reports note that treated acres do not denote the total number of acres that have been successfully cleared, but that “there can be multiple discrete Treatment Areas within a Project, and Treatments may contain multiple overlapping activities." That means if one area is thinned, then pruned, then piled, then burned, an area can contribute multiple times its size toward the treatment total. Thus, while the state reports it has completed 51,286 acres of prescribed burns — a milestone exceeding the state’s 50,000-acre goal — and 68,347 acres of fuels reduction in the 2024-2025 fiscal year, it’s likely many of those acres have been counted more than once, obfuscating the real scale of the state’s brush clearance efforts. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s then-record $298 billion budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year notably cut $3 million from Cal Fire’s Forest Health Program, $35 million from stewardship programs of state-managed land, $5 million from prescribed fire and hand crews, and $28 million from conservancy projects, which likely accounted for some of the apparent forest treatment decline between the the 2023-2024 and the 2024-2025 fiscal years. When Newsom came into office in 2019, the state was spending $200 million per year on wildfire prevention. The 2020-2021 budget increased funding to $536 million, and the 2021-2022 budget increased funding again to a record $988 million. Since then, however, funding has declined, with funding falling to $600 million in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, remaining steady for the 2023-2024 fiscal year, then declining to $543 million in the 2024-2025 fiscal year, and now to just $210 million for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. This $210 million represents a relative decline since 2019 due to inflation — to keep up with inflation, the state would have had to have allocated $250 million this year. Republican leaders have advocated that the state maintain a new wildfire prevention baseline of $1 billion per year, which a new working paper from Resources For the Future, whose lead author is a former U.S. Forestry Service senior researcher, suggests could eliminate the state’s highest-risk backlog in just five years. Resources For the Future, an independent research institute, estimates it would cost approximately $17 billion to treat all of California’s lands at high risk of wildfire, finding mechanical thinning costing an average of $577 per acre, and prescribed burns $170 per acre based on U.S. Forestry Service data. Should the state focus only on the highest-risk areas at the wildland-urban-interface where the risk of death and destruction from wildfire is the highest, RFF says treating these highest-risk 8.7 million acres would cost $5 billion. RFF notes that these costs are based on national data, and do not count costly permitting or environmental review costs, or factor that significant scaling, and thus increased demand for labor and equipment, could raise treatment costs. With the University of Chicago estimating the state’s 2018 record blazes caused $148.5 billion in losses, and the UCLA estimating the January fires cost as much as $164 billion, treating every acre of at-risk land in California could still cost significantly less than one catastrophic blaze. Nonetheless, with the state starting to face budget pressures despite a record $321 billion budget, it’s unclear what other programs the state might be willing to cut to prioritize wildfire prevention. Gabriel Kirkpatrick Mann, a seasoned wildfire documentarian who embedded with Cal Fire’s elite hotshot unit for six years to produce Hotshot, emphasizes the critical role of strategic fuel clearance in protecting communities. “The entire forest could turn to moon dust, but if we have good fuel clearance around our neighborhood, it won’t matter,” Mann told The Center Square. “We saw this clearly on the Silverado Fire in 2020, which had the same conditions as the Palisades Fire, when 85 mile per hour winds pushed the fire straight into Orchard Hills, but because they had a 200-foot greenbelt of mulch and succulents, the fire fell to its knees. “Contrast that with the Palisades, where you have a rats’ nest of fuels right up against people’s homes,” continued Mann. “Far different outcome.” While the Silverado Fire in coastal Orange County burned 13,390 acres — a little less than half the size of the Palisades Fire — only five structures were destroyed, and no civilians died. Despite the state’s wildfire prevention challenges, Newsom has leaned on the state’s efforts to go on the media offensive, hosting a “Make America Rake Again” press conference on Tuesday to unveil a model executive order for President Donald Trump to sign to improve national wildfire prevention efforts. The model order calls for the federal government to match state and local forest management and firefighting capabilities, and reallocate funding to achieve this objective. California Republican leaders responded by noting the state’s minimal fire prevention efforts relative to its budget — and the state’s challenge — and the decreases in fire prevention funding since the 2021-2022 fiscal year. “Gavin Newsom has cut wildfire prevention funds every year since 2021. In 2021, myself and many other members of the legislature had to damn near shame him into a record investment of a billion dollars — this was in the aftermath of the Dixie Fire that devastated my district,” said Assembly Minority Leader James Gallagher, R-East Nicolaus. “Every year since then, in Gavin’s budgets, he has slashed the funding, including in this year’s budget, in 2025, where he allocated only $200 million toward wildfire prevention while he’s allocating $12 billion for health care for illegal immigrants.” “In the aftermath of these devastating fires in Los Angeles and these devastating fires that have hit my area, that have hit many parts of California, $200 million out of a $321 billion budget,” continued Gallagher. “And he still has not met the [joint federal and state] goal of 500,000 acres treated a year — he committed to that under the first Trump administration … he hasn’t met that goal at all.” According to CalFire, 96,994 acres have burned this year, with 3,290 wildfires, 30 fatalities, and 16,306 structures destroyed across the state, with 17 fires still ongoing at the start of the summer fire season.

Tiempo de lectura: 3 minutos  La Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos aprobó este 3 de julio el megaproyecto fiscal impulsado por Donald Trump, que incluye un impuesto del 1 % a las remesas enviadas en efectivo. La medida, que ahora espera ser firmada por el presidente, impactará directamente a millones de migrantes y a países como Guatemala, donde ... Read more

Com direção de Ugo Giorgetti, produção da SP Filmes e financiamento da Fundação Conrado Wessel, um documentário sobre Alberto Dines está em processo de realização. Cofundador do Labjor (Laboratório de Estudos Avançados em Jornalismo, da Unicamp) ao lado de Carlos Vogt, o jornalista vai ter sua trajetória profissional narrada em filme. Alberto Dines foi pioneiro […] O post Alberto Dines em documentário dirigido por Ugo Giorgetti apareceu primeiro em Observatório da Imprensa.

Abortion services will resume in Missouri on Monday following a Jackson County court order blocking enforcement of almost all of the state’s laws restricting the procedure. On Thursday afternoon, Circuit Judge Jerri Zhang, for the third time, issued an order to enforce the abortion rights amendment approved by voters in November. In her previous orders, […]

Nenhum apostador acertou as seis dezenas do concurso 2.883 da Mega-Sena, realizado nesta quinta-feira (3). O prêmio acumulou e está estimado em R$ 6,5 milhões para o próximo sorteio. Os números sorteados foram: 01 - 40 - 43 - 56 - 57 - 60 27 apostas acertaram cinco dezenas e irão receber R$ 57.548,57 cada 1.559 apostas acertaram quatro dezenas e irão receber R$ 1.423,81 cada Notícias relacionadas: Preços das apostas das Loterias Caixa aumentam a partir de 9 de julho. >> Siga o canal da Agência Brasil no WhatsApp Apostas Para o próximo concurso, as apostas podem ser feitas até as 19h (horário de Brasília) de sábado (5), em qualquer lotérica do país ou pela internet, no site ou aplicativo da Caixa. A aposta simples, com seis dezenas, custa R$ 5. A partir da próxima quarta-feira (9), as apostas da Mega-Sena passarão a custar R$ 6. Segundo a Caixa, a atualização tem como objetivo manter a sustentabilidade das modalidades, ampliar os valores das premiações e aumentar os repasses sociais.

The charges are the latest escalation in a probe that resulted in Texas authorities indicting six other Frio County area officials in May.

Recentemente, vimos Marina Silva, ministra do Meio Ambiente, ser insistentemente silenciada. Após sua fala ter sido várias vezes interrompida pelos senadores e seu microfone frequentemente cortado pelo senador Marcos Rogério (PL-RO), presidente da Comissão de Infraestrutura do Senado, Marina deixou a reunião da Comissão. Ao ouvir ainda que deveria “colocar-se em seu lugar”, a ministra […] O post Quem tem medo da fala feminina? apareceu primeiro em Observatório da Imprensa.

Secretária-executiva da pasta, Fernanda Machiaveli, destacou o esforço em pesquisa para o desenvolvimento de bioinsumos O post Lula quer que Brasil deixe de ser o maior consumidor de agrotóxicos do mundo, diz nº 2 do MDA apareceu primeiro em Brasil de Fato.