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Brazil's Amazon deforestation hits record for month of April

Deforestation detected in the Brazilian Amazon reached a record high for the month of April

The Independent UK

Brazil's Amazon deforestation hits April record, nearly double previous peak

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon surged to record levels for the month of April, nearly doubling the area of forest removed in that month last year -- the previous April record -- preliminary government data showed on Friday, alarming environmental campaigners.

Reuters

Amazon tribes turn the tables on intruders with social media

Indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon rainforest have endured years of scant recourse when prospectors and landgrabbers do violence in their territories

The Independent UK

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Satellites over the Amazon capture the choking of the ‘house of God’ by the Belo Monte Dam – they can help find solutions, too

The Xingu River is revered as the “house of God” by the Indigenous people living along its Volte Grande, or Big Bend, in the Brazilian Amazon. The river is essential to their culture and religion, and a crucial source of fish, transportation and water for trees and plants.

The Conversation

‘Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge

Tropics lost 11.1m hectares of tree cover in 2021, including forest critical to limiting global heating and biodiversity loss

The Guardian - UK

Rising authoritarianism and worsening climate change share a fossil-fueled secret

Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This backsliding on democracy and “creeping authoritarianism,” as the U.S. State Department puts it, is often supported by the same industries that are escalating climate change.

The Conversation

Huge 'blood mines' discovered in Amazon - with one so big it has its own church

Activists say it is impossible the Amazon’s 'blood gold' is not in Britain. It is likely sold in the bullion to the UK before finding its way around the necks and on the fingers of jewellery buyers

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Research: How deforestation drives climate change?

A new study led by scientists from the University of California has revealed how protecting tropical forests can yield climate benefits that enhance carbon storage in nearby areas.

Dynamite News

Brazil's largest indigenous reservation overrun by illegal gold mining, says report

An illegal gold mining boom on Brazil's largest indigenous reservation has brought disease, violence and grave human rights violations on the Yanomami people, according to research and allegations included in a new report on Monday, blaming high gold prices and tacit government support.

Reuters

Brazil's Amazon deforestation sets first-quarter record despite March dip

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 15% in March from a year earlier, preliminary government data showed on Friday, but even with that dip it was enough to drive the most destruction during the first quarter in at least six years.

Reuters

Microbiome experts warn of an ‘invisible extinction’ that’s harming human health

When Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello travels to the Amazon jungle and tells villagers the reason for her visit, their first response is often laughter.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Ecuadorean indigenous groups demand removal of hundreds of gas flares

Leaders of Ecuadorean indigenous communities gathered in Quito on Thursday to demand the government comply with court orders to halt the use of hundreds of gas flares by oil producers in the country's Amazon.

Reuters

'Underestimated' tropical forests hold key to cooling planet: report

The scientific community is unanimous that forests are our natural "air conditioners" on both a local and global scale, and that humanity's future depends on them. While the world struggles to meet the 1.5C climate change target, a report published Thursday shows that, thanks to unique biophysical processes, tropical forests…

Radio France Internationale

Global air pollution levels spiked in 2021 after a drop during 2020 lockdowns, report says

The Amazon rainforest is emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs, according to a new pollution report — the opposite of what is supposed to happen.

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The Guardian - UK

How Saharan dust clouds that turn skies orange also nourish nature

Dust is a precious fertiliser for the Amazon rainforest and feeds Atlantic phytoplankton

The Independent UK

Indigenous brothers aged eight and six found alive after almost four weeks lost in Amazon rainforest

Boys tell parents they found nothing to eat – surviving only on rainwater

Daily Mirror

Brothers, 7 and 9, survived in rainforest for 27 DAYS with berries and rainwater

The boys, Glaucon and Gleison, survived their ordeal in the Amazon by eating the berries of the Couma utilis flowering plant and by drinking water from a stream and rainwater

Evening Standard

Boys found in Amazon rainforest after missing for four weeks

Now the boys are expected to make a full recovery

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Young brothers aged 6 and 8 found alive after four weeks lost in the Amazon rainforest

The indigenous boys aged just six and eight are believed to have gotten lost whilst trying to catch small birds in the jungle near Manicore, Amazonas state, on February 18

ABC News

Brothers rescued after being lost for close to four weeks in Amazon rainforest

Two boys, aged seven and nine, are taken to hospital with severe malnutrition and dehydration after apparently surviving close to a month alone in the rainforest.

Daily Mirror

Two brothers aged 6 and 8 found after disappearing into the Amazon a month ago

Gleson Carvalho Ribeiro, 8, and Glaco Carvalho Ribeiro, 6, have been found alive after going missing 27 days ago in the Amazon rainforest in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas

Reuters

Indigenous communities meet in Ecuador to demand end to extractive industries

Indigenous leaders from nine countries in the Amazon basin met in Ecuador on Tuesday and demanded South America governments halt extractive industries which damage the rainforest, urging them to respect agreements and legal rulings recognizing communities' rights over territories.

Salon

What happens if the Amazon desertifies?

Droughts and logging have wreaked havoc on the rainforest often called the "world's lungs," scientists say

The Independent UK

In Brazil, artists and activists protest against mining bill

Thousands of Brazilians have gathered outside Congress in Brasilia to protest a set of bills that they say threaten the Amazon rainforest and the Indigenous people living in it

Reuters

Bolsonaro suffers setback on bill to mine indigenous lands

Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, suffered a setback on Wednesday in his effort to rush through a law that would allow mining on indigenous reservations, which he had argued was necessary because Brazil needed fertilizer supplies.

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