Tag: Amazon Rainforest
Amazon’s alarm: The rainforest’s role in pandemic outbreaks and planetary health
Amazon at the crossroads: deforestation and climate change fuel disease risks.
Why Brazil’s upcoming presidential election could determine the future of the...
“I don’t say this lightly as a scientist, but this is the most important election ever in Brazil for the Amazon and its survival.”
‘Biggest story in the world right now’: Humanity has flipped Amazon...
The findings, said one expert, “show that the uncertain future is happening now.”
Amazon rainforest will collapse by 2064, new study predicts
“A forest cannot survive if its canopy needs more than 4 years to recover from a yearly [drought] event.”
Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in...
Keeping forests standing is one of the most effective and important ways to keep the world below dangerous levels of warming.
As Amazonian wildfire season approaches, we must protect the vulnerable forest
Jair Bolsonaro’s aggressive deregulation and exploitation of the Amazon’s resources threatens the entire planet.
Brazil using pandemic as smokescreen for new attacks on the Amazon,...
"The invaders think they can enter the indigenous reserve because of the government agenda."
As Amazon rainforest burns, Brazil’s environment minister to meet US group...
A Greenpeace Brazil campaingner says the Bolsonaro government "makes efforts to deny the problems, not to face them."
Brazil’s indigenous peoples have long united against deforestation
When rain started to fall on the flames overtaking the area around the small Amazonian town of Lábrea, Brazil, Marcos Apurinã let...
Record number of fires burning in Amazon rainforest
There are a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's space agency has said. Their smoke is visible from space and shrouded the...