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How to use free satellite data to monitor natural disasters and environmental changes

If you want to track changes in the Amazon rainforest, see the full expanse of a hurricane or figure out where people need help after a disaster, it’s much easier to do with the view from a satellite orbiting a few hundred miles above Earth.

The Conversation

Lula meets with Indigenous in Brazil's Amazon, pledges lands

On his first trip to Indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest since taking office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has expressed support for the creation of new territories for those communities

The Independent UK

Record deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest shows challenge facing Lula

Satellites show record destruction for the month of February as new government tries to undo damage wreaked under Bolsonaro

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How the 'second Amazon' became a battleground

It's called the 'second Amazon'. But like the Amazon, a pristine river system to Australia's north has become a battleground.

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Rainforests pump water round the tropics – but the pulse of this heart is weakening

Tropical forests are often referred to as the “lungs of the world”, describing the way their trees exchange gases with the atmosphere. By “breathing in” carbon dioxide and “breathing out” oxygen during photosynthesis, tropical forests remove about 15% of man-made carbon emissions and help to slow climate change.

The Conversation

Tropical deforestation significantly reduces rainfall, study finds

New research published Wednesday shows that large-scale deforestation – from the Amazon to the forests of Africa and Southeast Asia – threatens reductions in rainfall across the tropics.

Radio France Internationale

Man ate worms and drank urine to survive brutal 31 days lost in the Amazon jungle

Jhonatan Acosta, 30, has told how he became lost in part of the Amazon jungle in Bolivia and was forced to eat worms and drink his urine, while fighting off wild boars that attacked him

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Earth’s ‘green lung’ rainforests take centre stage at talks in Gabon

The sixth annual One Planet Summit begins on Wednesday, with the fate of forests at the top of the agenda. Politicians, scientists and NGOs will meet in Libreville, Gabon, to discuss the future of rainforests in the Congo basin, Southeast Asia and the Amazon basin – and whether countries in…

France 24

Scientists prove clear link between deforestation and local drop in rainfall

Study adds to fears Amazon is approaching tipping point after which it will not be able to generate its own rainfall

The Guardian - UK

Man survived 31 days in Amazon jungle by eating worms

Jhonattan Acosta, 30, got lost in the jungle after becoming separated from his four friends while out hunting in northern Bolivia.

The Independent UK

Illegal gold mining: A disaster for the Yanomami people of Brazil's Amazon rainforest

Thousands of illegal gold miners are accused of destroying the lives of the indigenous Yanomami people, who have lived for centuries in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil. Miners have flooded into the area, poisoning rivers, attacking people and even raping women and girls. Under Brazil's…

France 24

Brazil delegation visits Amazon region where pair died

A delegation from the Brazilian government that includes widows of two slain men who had worked for justice for Indigenous Amazon peoples arrived in the remote region where the two were slain Monday in a symbolic retake of the place, now that a new government has taken office in Brazil

The Independent UK

Dom Phillips’ widow to follow him in raising awareness of crisis in Amazon

Alessandra Sampaio preparing to visit remote area where husband and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were murdered last year

The Guardian - UK

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Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira remembered in Rio as carnival emerges from Bolsonaro era

Dancing and debauchery peppered with more sombre moments, including defiant tributes to murdered British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert

The Guardian - US

Cattle, not coca, drive deforestation of the Amazon in Colombia – report

Past governments blamed the growing of coca – the base component of cocaine – for clearcutting, but a recent study shows otherwise

The Guardian - US

Peruvian loggers given 28 years in jail for murder of four Indigenous leaders

Victims – among them environmental defender Edwin Chota – were tortured before their deaths in Peruvian Amazon in 2014

Reuters

Exclusive-Brazil plans legislation to crack down on laundering of illegal gold

Brazil's government is taking a fresh tack in its effort to crack down on illegal gold mining in the Amazon, preparing legislation that would require electronic tax receipts for the buying and selling of the precious metal, four sources with knowledge of the plans said.

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The Independent UK

Brazil police target illegal gold exports from the Amazon

Brazil’s Federal Police are carrying out a court order to seize more than $384 million related to about 13 tons of gold mined illegally in the Amazon rainforest, then exported through an unnamed U.S.-based company

The Conversation

Livestock grazing is preventing the return of rainforests to the UK and Ireland

A few years back, the president of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales wrote a defence of the meat industry after a BBC documentary criticised its environmental impact. “British farmers do not clear rainforest to make way for beef and lamb production,” she wrote. “British meat does not…

Al Jazeera

Biden, Brazil’s Lula vow relationship reboot at White House meet

Leaders promise to work together on climate change, democracy, despite disagreements over Ukraine.

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Biden and Brazil's Lula find common ground against violent extremism

It was just over a month ago that hundreds of extremist supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, stormed the capital and ransacked the Congress, Supreme Court and the presidential offices.

Reuters

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls in first month under Lula

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell in January from a year earlier, satellite data showed on Friday, in the first monthly figures under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Reuters

Exclusive-U.S. eyes joining Amazon Fund during Biden-Lula visit

The United States is considering its first contribution to a multilateral fund aimed at fighting Amazon deforestation, with a possible announcement during President Joe Biden's meeting with Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the White House on Friday, two U.S. official with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Reuters

Brazil agencies launch raid against illegal gold miners in Yanomami lands

Brazil's environmental and indigenous agencies have launched an enforcement operation in the Amazon rainforest to expel thousands of illegal gold miners blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis among the Yanomami people, officials said on Wednesday.

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