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Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.
Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in ...
A Mongabay investigation that revealed an illegal cattle boom amid a record-high number of killings of Indigenous Guajajara ...
SAO PAULO, April 4 (Reuters) - Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port of Miritituba in the Amazon rainforest ...
Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest ... under expansion in Brazil’s northern half, with five railways planned for the Amazon ...
‘We need white men on our side to save the Amazon from destruction,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says ...
Eight miles of protected Amazon rainforest are being decimated to build a road for the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, in November this year. The new four-lane highway aims to ease traffic to ...
There is a long and unfortunate tradition of Western documentary-makers patronisingly portraying the Amazon rainforest and other equally far-flung locations as pre-industrial paradises ...