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- Amazon deforestation reaches a 12-year record Thu, 3 Dec 20, 5:30amDeforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has risen to a 12-year high in 2020, according to data released by Inpe, the national space research agency in Brazil...
- Megaprojects risk pushing forests past tipping point – report Thu, 19 Nov 20, 11:01amHuge road, energy and mining projects driving into heart of world’s remaining forests
- Climate crisis could turn the Amazon rainforest to savanna Wed, 7 Oct 20, 4:30amA new study published in the journal Nature Communications indicates that the Amazon rainforest could shift from a closed canopy rainforest to an open savanna due to the climate crisis...
- Proposed UK law pushes accountability for Amazon products Thu, 27 Aug 20, 3:30amPeople around the world have watched with increasing horror as Amazon forest destruction has accelerated in recent years. Now, U.K. officials have proposed a law to make large companies operating within the U.K....
- Organic vegan restaurant named to raise awareness for deforestation in Brazil Wed, 10 Jun 20, 12:30amRecently opened in the Brazilian city of São Paulo and designed by local architecture and design practice VAGA, the Cajuí Restaurant offers a menu of vegan, organic and natural ingredients supplied by small farmers from...
- Here comes the sun canoe, as Amazonians take on Big Oil Fri, 13 Mar 20, 9:00pmEcuadorian indigenous groups hope innovation will reduce amount of oil taken from forest only to be brought back as pollution
- 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