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Doña Oscarina Caldas Azevedo was a Desana master ceramicist, farmer, teacher, and Indigenous environmental researcher from Brazil’s upper Rio Negro region.As the first woman to serve as an Indigenous Environmental Management Agent on the Tiquié River, she helped bring women’s agricultural knowledge into environmental monitoring.She documented crop cycles, rainfall, river levels, and community life, while cultivating 18 varieties of cassava and preserving knowledge of ceramics, medicinal plants, and ritual practice.Through teaching, research, publications, and international forums, she worked to ensure that younger generations could continue applying and expanding this knowledge.See All Key Ideas   Before clay could be…

German energy player Uniper has signed off on a two-decade-long liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal with a multibillion-dollar LNG project being developed on Canada’s northwest coast to export lower-carbon LNG to energy markets. Ksi Lisims LNG concept; Source: Western LNG Uniper and Ksi Lisims LNG have signed a long-term LNG sale and purchase agreement (SPA) for the delivery of 2 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG, approximately 30 terawatt hours, on a free-on-board (FOB) basis to the German firm for up to 20 years, in the presence of Katherina Reiche, Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, and…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responded with fury after Corpus Christi officials announced in March that this Gulf Coast region of more than 500,000 people could face unprecedented restrictions as its water supply dried up. The state had already committed over $750 million in low-interest loans to the city’s plans for a desalination plant, a project that would add 30 million gallons a day to the region’s water supply. But the project had gone nowhere. “You know what they did? They squandered it, and then they changed their plan and then they were indecisive about what to do,” Abbott said of…

NORTHEASTERN SYRIA—At a former U.S. military base outside of the Syrian city of Hasakeh, Samir Asso—better known by his nom de guerre, Sipan Hamo—sat down for a conversation with Foreign Policy in early July. Until last January, Hamo was a commander in the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish-led military group that worked with Washington to defeat the Islamic State. Now Hamo is Syria’s deputy defense minister for the eastern region, the first Kurdish commander to hold a senior military post in Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government. The room where we spoke featured a large desk, which Hamo sat casually in…

FIFA executive Arsene Wenger backs decision to drop FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan.Published On 4 Aug 20264 Aug 2026FIFA executive Arsene Wenger has distanced himself from President Gianni Infantino’s failed plan to sell stakes in future World Cup profits to private investors and says it was “absolutely necessary” to drop the proposal.Wenger’s statement on Tuesday on the controversy came after a preservation letter from UEFA, confirmed to Al Jazeera by European football’s governing body, was sent to FIFA, the world governing body.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listUpon confirming the legal request was sent, UEFA said…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.OpenAI has accused Apple of waging a “careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit” in a blog post rebutting the iPhone maker’s claims that the AI start-up stole top-secret information.“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker wrote on Monday evening, accusing Apple of “making vague accusations” and “trying to change their narrative”.The post marks the latest escalation in a dispute that began last month when Apple filed a lawsuit claiming OpenAI had stolen hardware designs as…

Recipe ingredients are organized nicely into individual bags, and the foldout recipe cards are charmingly well designed and easy to save if you plan to replicate them in the future with or without Purple Carrot. The kits offer a mix of fresh produce and prepackaged ingredients that might include tofu, instant rice, or spice pouches.Although produce isn’t guaranteed organic, most of the ingredients were (and of course, they were all vegan). The only ingredients you need to provide are salt, pepper, and cooking oil. Though note that at least one recipe—those excellent butternut squash dumplings—required a food processor, a rarity…

Pillar Security discovered an agent-to-agent attack method in Google’s Agent Development Kit for Python that could lead to secret exposure and pull request (PR) poisoning. The google/adk-python repository had two classes of automated AI agents, namely low-privileged ones open to user interaction, and high-privileged ones accessible only to maintainers. An attacker could manipulate the low-privileged, public-facing agent to pass a prompt to the high-privileged one, gaining access to restricted capabilities, including command execution, and potentially opening the door to supply chain compromise, Pillar’s Dan Lisichkin explains. Initially, the company discovered that an agent responsible for triaging pull requests was commenting…

In brief Trezor and Foundation both reported a surge in phishing attempts targeting hardware wallet owners following the Coldcard exploit. Proofpoint identified a phishing campaign targeting Coldcard holders with a cloned site and “Hardware Audit” that installs remote-access software. A person, rather than a bot, staffs the fake site’s customer service chat and talks victims through the install. Hardware wallet manufacturers Trezor and Foundation have warned of a surge in phishing attempts trading on the Coldcard firmware exploit, with scammers chasing users’ recovery phrases and pushing malicious downloads.Trezor said it was already seeing an increase in phishing attempts following the…

First scientifically described in 1836, the spiny babbler has only ever been found in Nepal.Despite its uniqueness, the species remains poorly understood.The bird has typically been spotted in and around Kathmandu and Pokhara, but sightings have now been recorded in shrublands across all seven of Nepal’s provinces.Ornithologists have been unable to determine why the bird does not exist outside Nepal or document more information on its habitat and behavior owing to limited research and researchers are calling for more attention for the bird.See All Key Ideas Nepal’s shrubby hillsides are home to a medium-sized bird with brownish upperparts,…