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- Indigenous communities are crucial in protecting the Amazon Sat, 9 Oct 21, 6:30amIt is impossible to protect the Amazon rainforest without involving Indigenous communities, according to environmental activists fighting for the forests...
- The Amazon rainforest now emits more carbon than it absorbs Fri, 16 Jul 21, 4:30amA recent study in Nature shows that the Amazon rainforest is now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs. For the first time, scientists have confirmed that despite once being the largest carbon sink in the world, the...
- Devastating gold rush in Peruvian Amazon rainforest as seen from space Tue, 9 Mar 21, 4:30amThe Peruvian Amazon is the world’s fourth largest tropical rainforest and an important biodiversity hotspot. But as usual, people are putting financial gain over preserving endemic and endangered species. As the price of...
- Brazil Demands US “Investment” to Support the Biden Climate Agenda Tue, 9 Mar 21, 1:00amThe bidding war begins; Brazil, whose government once described climate action as a "Marxist Conspiracy", is happy to stop chopping down the Amazon if they get a share of Biden's two trillion dollar "stimulus".
- Facebook Marketplace fuels illegal sales of land in the Amazon rainforest Tue, 2 Mar 21, 4:30amLarge parcels of land in the Amazon rainforest are being sold illegally on Facebook. According to a recent investigation carried out by the BBC, Facebook Marketplace ads are being used to sell land in Brazil's portion of...
- 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...