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Amazon governor revokes forest protection in re-election bid

In a last-minute effort to win reelection on Sunday, the governor of Rondonia, in the Brazilian Amazon, revoked the protected designation of a large swath of forest about twice the size of New York City

The Independent UK

This Amazon road led to vast deforestation. Brazil's Bolsonaro plans to pave it

President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection Sunday, has pledged to fully pave BR-319 and turn it into a kind of jungle expressway, raising alarm from environmental groups.

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Brazil's top court set to rule in favor of Amazon Fund revival

Brazil's Supreme Court is set to demand that the government reactivate a billion-dollar international fund aimed at protecting the Amazon rainforest as the nation faces rampant deforestation, according to a court statement on Thursday.

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Analysis-Brazil's Green New Deal: Lula promises environmental policy overhaul

Brazilian presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is vowing an environmental overhaul of government policy on a scale rivaling the proposed U.S. Green New Deal, according to his senior advisers, campaign documents and Workers Party policy papers.

Reuters

Explainer-What Brazil's election means for the Amazon rainforest

Brazil's presidential election on Sunday may determine the fate of the Amazon jungle, the world's largest rainforest, after deforestation soared in the past four years under President Jair Bolsonaro.

Reuters

Months after floods, Brazil's Amazon faces a severe drought

Months after enduring floods that destroyed crops, thousands of families in the Brazilian Amazon are now dealing with severe drought

The Independent UK

Bolivian gold miners push into national park despite country’s green rhetoric

Mining co-ops – with oversize influence in the government – are moving into the Amazon’s Madidi national park

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Parintins: A remote Brazilian city overcoming isolation through a festival

There are no bridges or roads that connect the city-island of Parintins to the rest of the world. This remote city in the Amazon is 369 kilometres away from Manaus, the capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state. Parintins is home to thousands of low-income and Indigenous Brazilians and can only be…

The Conversation

Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu; Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre review – the world worn down

The cavernous Turbine Hall has become a spectral memory forest as Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña mourns the destruction of the Amazon rainforest

The Guardian - UK

Ecuador private oil pipeline reports spill following vandalism

The operator of Ecuador's private oil pipeline on Friday disclosed a spill in the Andean country's Amazon region, saying vandals damaged tubing that was no longer in service and caused an unspecified quantity of crude still in the tube to escape into the environment.

Reuters

How to get rid of carpenter ants – expert-approved tips to eliminate them from your home for good

These tiny, wood-tunneling pesky pests can cause serious structural issues if they invade your home – here's how to get rid of them successfully

Homes & Gardens

How what Brits eat is linked to rainforest destruction as UK 'complicit in deforestation'

Yesterday, we revealed how nature is in grave danger with the WWF saying thousands of species are in decline, most severely in Latin America, home to the Amazon, where numbers have fallen by 94%

Daily Mirror

Warning life on Earth on brink of catastrophe as climate change and destruction of nature undermine planet

Wildlife populations have fallen nearly 70% globally since 1970, the World Wildlife Fund’s latest Living Planet Report reveals – equivalent to a wipe-out of everyone in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Oceania and China

Irish Mirror

UK ‘complicit’ in Amazon destruction, campaigners warn

WWF has called for legislation to take deforestation-linked products off UK shelves.

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Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals

Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists

Daily Mirror

Life on Earth on brink of catastrophe with one million species 'at risk of extinction'

Since 1970, the population sizes of global wildlife have plummeted by nearly 70%, says WWF latest Living Planet Report, the most comprehensive in its 24-year history

The Independent UK

How British chicken is destroying the Amazon

US food company JBS’ subsidary Seara supplies chicken to British supermarkets, schools and hospitals

The Guardian - US

Amazon loses London-sized area of rainforest in a month with Bolsonaro’s reign under threat

Large area destroyed in September, as environmental criminals raced to wreck the region before possible change of president

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The Independent UK

How British chicken is destroying the Amazon

US food company JBS’ subsidary Seara supplies chicken to British supermarkets, schools and hospitals

The Guardian - UK

Chicken in British supermarkets ‘linked to deforested Amazon’

Investigation found that JBS poultry were fed on soya beans and corn from deforested areas

The Conversation

Climate tipping points could lock in unstoppable changes to the planet – how close are they?

Continued greenhouse gas emissions risk triggering climate tipping points. These are self-sustaining shifts in the climate system that would lock-in devastating changes, like sea-level rise, even if all emissions ended.

The Independent UK

Big Brazilian gold refiner delisted amid Amazon mining probe

One of Brazil’s biggest gold refiners, which processes gold suspected of being mined illegally in the Amazon rainforest, has been stripped of an important industry seal of approval that global manufacturers from Apple to Tesla rely on to root out abuses in their supply chains

Salon

Brazil election could decide Amazon fate

Bolsonaro "derided Indigenous people, environmentalists and science" while weakening environmental protections

The Conversation

'Beautiful and terrifying': how artist Richard Mosse brings us the vast, significant and urgent story of the Amazon's destruction

Review: Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre, NGV International.

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