Amazon forest fires
To save the Amazon, a project is making sure cattle farmers earn another living
The stakes are high. About one-fifth of what some call “the lungs of the world” is already gone. Now Microsoft and other corporations are getting involved.
- by Manuela Andreoni
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‘I promised to come to your forest’: Macron honours tribal chief, reveals $1.6b plan to protect the Amazon
The French and Brazilian governments have launched a four-year plan to protect the Amazon rainforest, in the process reviving their bilateral relationship.
- by Mauricio Savarese and Sylvie Corbet
Rivers in the Amazon fall to their lowest levels in 120 years
The Negro River is the Amazon’s largest tributary and the world’s sixth-largest by water volume.
- by Fabiano Maisonnave
Amazon countries sign rainforest pact to save it
Numerous studies have indicated that further deforestation would transform the Amazon into a net emitter of greenhouse gases and be disastrous to the planet.
- by Manuela Andreoni and Max Bearak
Elon Musk brought high-speed internet to the Amazon. Criminals love it
Illegal miners and those destroying the forest had to contend with bad access to the outside world. Not anymore.
- by Fabiano Maisonnave
Dozens of Yanomami children hospitalised in Amazon amid health crisis
An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in the country’s largest indigenous reservation now under a health emergency declaration.
- by Leonardo Benassatto and Amanda Perobelli
The Amazon is deteriorating too fast for species, people and climate to adapt
The critical ecosystem is being damaged at an unprecedented pace with grievous effects on biodiversity and human welfare, researchers say.
- by Carly Wanna
Lula restarts anti-deforestation raids in the Amazon
Reporter accompanied raids led by environmental agency Ibama to stop loggers and farmers illegally clearing land in the rainforest state of Para.
- by Jake Spring
The world hopes Lula will save the Amazon. After Bolsonaro, it won’t be easy
If its new president-elect keeps his promises to safeguard the rainforest, Brazil could have a major impact on the global fight against climate change.
- by Paulina Villegas and Sarah Kaplan
Brazil’s Amazon records worst August fires since 2010
The devastation generally caused by farmers lighting fires to clear land in drier months is more widespread than the blazes that set off global outrage in 2019.
- by Gabriel Araujo
Brazil hid ‘worst deforestation’ data until after COP26: Ministers
President Jair Bolsonaro and his environment minister knew the Amazon region’s annual deforestation rate was the worst in 15 years, cabinet ministers said.
- by Debora Alves
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