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A Damaged Amazon Rainforest Is A Net-Contributor To Global Warming
Rainforests help offset emissions from fossil fuel burning because they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In recent years, scientists have been worried that deforestation, drought, carbon...
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Goldmining Is Heavily Affecting Amazon Indigenous Reserves
As gold prices skyrocket amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a recent report uncovers the scale and impact of mining on Amazon countries’ indigenous reserves. It found that over 20% of indigenous lands are...
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The Amazon Is In A Worse Condition Than Previously Thought
A bigger part of the Amazon rainforest than previously thought could cross a tipping point where it becomes a savanna-type ecosystem. A new study found that up to 66% of the luscious canopy rainforest...
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150 Scientists Unite To Protect The Amazon And Its People
With the support of the UN’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA) has been launched. The SPA is an ambitious cooperative conservation project. It brings...
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Rock Dust Sprinkled On Crops Could Absorb Billions Of Tons Of CO2
Carbon sinks around the world, including the Amazon rainforest, face a dangerous future, pressuring scientists to find ways to curb the buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. A new study...
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Amazon Deforestation In Brazil Rises For The 14th Month In A Row
Last year was very bad for the Amazon, but this year may be worse. Fire season has begun ahead of schedule, and the rate of deforestation in Brazil is trotting 83% ahead of the same time one year ago....
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Avon, Natura, The Body Shop, And Aesop Pledge Zero-Emissions, Amazon...
Natura &Co (parent firm of the brands Avon, Natura, The Body Shop, and Aesop) has revealed its comprehensive sustainability plan called “Commitment to Life.” The new package of sustainability...
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Indonesia Rewarded For Deforestation Efforts: A $56M Grant From Norway
Norway is in the act of delivering the first installment on a series of payments to Indonesia under the cooperation scheme called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+)....
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CO2 Overload Causing Forests To Lose Ability To Absorb Carbon
At the moment, plants remove about three gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, as humans pump out over 11 gigatons. The balance is way out of scale. Planting more trees will help,...
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The Pandemic Hasn’t Slowed Deforestation In The Brazilian Amazon At All
The coronavirus pandemic may have caused a global economic slowdown, but it hasn’t affected the rising rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. The destruction has continued unabated,...
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Study Quantifies Rapid Collapse of Important Earth Ecosystems
A recent study published in nature communications highlights the Amazon Rainforest, among other extremely important ecosystems on Earth, that could collapse much faster than previous estimates. The...
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Gold Mining Destroys The Peruvian Rainforest With Mercury
Over the past five years, small scale gold mining has destroyed over 170,000 acres of beautiful rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon. To put things into perspective, 170,000 acres is about 200 of New...
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Pope Francis Calls for Humanity to Protect the Amazon Rainforest
Pope Francis recently compiled a 94-page exhortation summarizing his experience at the Synod that was held in Rome last October, which included religious and spiritual leaders from around the world,...
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Brazil Decimates Amazon Rainforest In January Deforestation Records
Even with all the focus on the environment, the Amazon Rainforest endures decimation by big business and logging companies. January marked a milestone for deforestation records in Brazil, more than...
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Tribes Gather To Make Resistance Plan To Protect The Amazon From The...
The indigenous people of Brazil are planning strategies to protect the Amazon from the threats and destruction that the government has caused. Now, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is pushing to open...
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Amazon Deforestation This Decade Reached The Equivalent of 8.4m Soccer Fields
The international statistic of the decade, chosen by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), is: The Amazon rainforest lost 24,000 square miles to deforestation over the past decade. That’s the equivalent...
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Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon This Year Nearly The Size of Puerto Rico
Deforestation in the Amazon, the world’s biggest tropical rainforest, has reached record highs all year. The month of November saw an increase of more than double the destruction compared to the same...
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Amazon Fires Three Times More Likely in Cattle Ranching Zones
The people of the Amazon rainforest face many challenges from big business. Deforestation has been going on for quite some time and is now becoming an even greater problem. This year’s ‘burning season’...
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Deforestation Affects The Entire Biosphere By Destabilizing The Water Cycle
There is an institution called the Hybam (Hydrology of the Amazon Basin) National Observation Service where scientists from around the world cooperate in the monitoring of the Amazon rainforest. Its...
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Enemy Amazonian Tribes Join Forces Against Bolsonaro’s Plans To Devastate The...
Many threats have been devastating the Amazon, affect the nature and wildlife as well as the people living there that call it home. In response to this, representatives of 14 indigenous groups and four...
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