Amazon rainforest

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When Carbon Credits Drive People From Their Homes

Blanca Begert 12/12/2021

Conservation efforts are acting to deny people living in...

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There Is No Such Thing as Pristine Nature

Julia Rosen 06/12/2021

Scientists are rethinking humanity’s role in shaping the planet...

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Climate Projections Suggest Earth Could Become Alien to Humans by 2500

Christopher Lyon, Alex Dunhill, Andrew P. Beckerman, Ariane Burke, Bethany Allen, Chris Smith, Daniel J. Hill, Erin Saupe, James McKay, Julien Riel-Salvatore, Lindsay C. Stringer, Rob Marchant and Tracy Aze 18/10/2021

Longer-term climate projections aren't being factored into mainstream climate...

A Jatoba tree, originally from the Amazon, is placed in front of the Norwegian Embassy, during a protest by activists seeking symbolic refugee status for the plant, in Brasilia

Brazil: Indigenous Protestors Seek ‘Asylum’ in Norway for Tree

Reuters 22/09/2021

The protest coincided with Jair Bolsonaro at the UN...

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New Study Offers More Proof That Brazilian Amazon Is Now a Net CO2 Source

Chris Arsenault 11/09/2021

Satellite data shows that formally protected areas and lands...

Fires surge in Brazilian Amazon for the third straight year in Canutama

Amazon Fires Surge Anew in Brazil as Cleared Forest Burns

Bruno Kelly 04/09/2021

Fires ramped up in the Brazilian rainforest in August,...

Geraldo, from Munduruku tribe poses for a picture during a four-day pow wow in Piaracu village, in Xingu Indigenous Park, near Sao Jose do Xingu

Brazil’s Munduruku Tribe Haunted by Mercury’s Deadly Threat

Jimin Kang 21/08/2021

The relaxing of environmental controls under President Jair Bolsonaro...