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- The Amazon has lost over 10 million football fields of forest in a decade Sat, 4 Jan 20, 4:30amThe Royal Statistical Society (RSS) recently published its International Statistic of the Decade, and the “winner” was the stark statistic that the Amazon lost 24,000 square miles of rainforest...
- Poorly planned Amazon dam project 'poses serious threat to life' Sat, 9 Nov 19, 3:00amOperator faces choice of weakening 14km barrier or potentially devastating a biodiversity hotspot
- 'Death of a river': the ruinous design flaw in a vast Amazon rainforest dam Sat, 9 Nov 19, 3:00amOperator faces choice of weakening 14km barrier or potentially devastating a biodiversity hotspot
- Amazon rainforest might reach irreversible tipping point as early as 2021 Sat, 26 Oct 19, 3:30amRelentless Amazon deforestation and gross mishandling of the region by Brazilian authorities and agricultural advocates are pushing the world’s largest tropical rainforest closer to the brink of catastrophic ecological...
- Greta Thunberg: ‘We are ignoring natural climate solutions’ Thu, 19 Sep 19, 8:00pmFilm by Swedish activist and Guardian journalist George Monbiot says nature must be used to repair broken climate
- 'Defending our existence': Colombian tribe stands in way of oil exploration Tue, 2 Apr 19, 4:00pmIn part three of our series, the Siona people stress opposition to any operations on their territory
- 8,000 barrels of oil spill in the Peruvian Amazon Sat, 15 Dec 18, 6:30amApproximately 8,000 barrels of crude oil have spilled into the Amazon, and the Peru State oil company Petroperu says its because local indigenous people severed the pipeline...
- 'Greenwash': oil giant under fire over plan to protect tropical forests Wed, 21 Nov 18, 2:31amCampaigners say move by Norway’s Equinor is an excuse to keep drilling for fossil fuels
- Amazon coral reef would be ruined by planned oil drilling, scientists say Wed, 18 Apr 18, 3:29amThe 56,000 sq km reef is thought to contain dozens of undiscovered species, in an area where a French company intents to drill for oil
- The Colombian Amazon is now officially a person thanks to a group of youth activists Wed, 11 Apr 18, 1:02amWith a recent ruling, the Colombian Supreme Court has made Colombia the first country in South America to recognize the personhood rights of the Amazon Rainforest...
- Newly discovered Amazon structures change what we know about ancient civilization Thu, 29 Mar 18, 3:58amResearchers at the University of Exeter have discovered 81 earthworks known as geoglpyhs across 1,200 miles of Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. This evidence, outlined in the journal Nature Communications, indicates that the...
- Non-profit uses gunshot detection technology and solar energy to protect the rainforest Fri, 23 Mar 18, 10:56pmSan Francisco-based non-profit Rainforest Connection has created a unique, technologically advanced system to defend the rainforests of Brazil. The high-tech protection system incorporates machine learning and solar energy...
- Non-profit uses machine learning and solar energy to protect the rainforest Fri, 23 Mar 18, 10:56pmSan Francisco-based non-profit Rainforest Connection has created a unique, technologically advanced system to defend the rainforests of Brazil. The high-tech protection system incorporates machine learning and solar energy...
- Peru protects one of world's last great untouched forests Fri, 16 Feb 18, 12:21amIn collaboration with local and international conservation groups, the Peruvian government has established Yaguas National Park in the country's far eastern territory to permanently protect millions of acres of pristine rainforest. “This...
- Peru passes legislation to let roads slice through remote Amazon area Wed, 24 Jan 18, 2:02amPart of Peru's Amazon rainforest could be under threat with a recently passed law. The move would allow roads to be constructed in Purus, a region The Guardian describes as the country's most remote and pristine. It is also...