Criminals may be leveraging climate change as record acreage burns in Brazil’s Amazon
Brazil’s Amazon dry season just ended with a staggering 846% increase in burned forest area compared to the year before.
Alert: New satellite analysis shows wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon in 2024 have destroyed an area the size of Switzerland
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — New satellite analysis shows wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon in 2024 have destroyed an area the size of Switzerland.
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New satellite analysis shows wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon in 2024 have destroyed an area the size of Switzerland
New satellite analysis shows wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon in 2024 have destroyed an area the size of Switzerland.Source: post ...
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The Amazon’s Relentless Poverty Cycle
In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...
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Are the Amazon’s Trees Worth More Alive than Dead? A New Industry Thinks So
CARAJÁS, Brazil — Jefferson Sousa could have been eking out a living at the expense of the Amazon forest, working on a cattle ranch like his father. “It was all I knew, it was what kept our ...
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Lost City Discovered in Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon rainforest is seen from a plane flying from the city of Manicore to Manaus in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, on June 10, 2022. Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the ...
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Illegal logging footprint in the Amazon expanded by a fifth, report finds
Illegal logging in the Amazon jumped by 19% over the past year ... reaching 35% in the 2022-2023 period. About 8% of Brazil’s Amazonian timber is exported. Of this, 48% goes to Europe and ...
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Starlink resists making changes in identifying users in Brazil's Amazon region
In a reply signed by the director of Starlink Brazil Internet Services and Starlink Brazil Holding ... that it had 65,215 customers across these states of the Amazon region as of 2023. The company has ...
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Record deforestation in the Amazon rainforest confirms official Brazilian data
Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...
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The Threat of Islamic Radicalism in Latin America
In Brazil, a network of Salafists ... “What emerges from this story is that the dramatic level of poverty in the Amazon region is being exploited and the fact that these indigenous communities are ...
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Brazil environmental disaster victims take case against mining giant BHP to UK court
Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster are taking their case for compensation to a UK court on Monday LONDON -- Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster took their case for ...
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Modern Slavery in Brazil Is Targeting More Women, More Foreigners
Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Brazil has seen a surge in the number of foreign ...