Maurício Ye'kwana worries about the future. He comes from the community of Auaris, in northern Brazil, close to the border with Venezuela.
The area, part of the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, is…
No amount of greenwashing by the Brazilian government can obscure the truth: The Amazon is being destroyed at a historic rate.
The country’s PRODES monitoring system shows there was a 21.97%…
Donation from $10bn Bezos Earth Fund will go towards biodiversity hotspots in Congo Basin and Andes.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has said he realised just how fragile the Earth was when he…
Research reignites need for a ‘worldwide curb’ in emissions, an Amazon scientist tells The Independent
Droughts and fires in the Amazon continue to cause CO2 emissions for years after they first…
Cutting emissions more urgent than ever, say scientists, with forest producing more than a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
The Amazon rainforest is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it…
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon made global headlines in 2019, thanks to massive wildfires and the election of anti-environmentalist president Jair Bolsonaro. Brazilians took to the streets …
Amazon.com Inc. said its carbon emissions rose in 2020 due to pandemic-fueled business growth, highlighting the challenge of balancing a fast-growing business with pledges to minimize environmental…
Researchers at the University of Leeds in Britain published new research Tuesday — World Rainforest Day — showing that massive swaths of the eastern Amazon are at risk of severe drying by the end of…
Greta Thunberg has labelled Amazon’s operating procedures “fundamentally wrong” following news that a warehouse in Scotland was destroying more than a hundred thousand items a week.
Ms Thunberg…
Forest degradation has become the largest process driving carbon loss in the Brazilian Amazon, according to a recent study using ESA satellite data.
While both deforestation and forest degradation…
International team of researchers also found that deforestation rose nearly four-fold in 2019.
The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20% more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the past decade…
Activists fear billion-dollar climate deal will bolster Bolsonaro and reward illegal forest clearance – but US says action can’t wait
The US is negotiating a multi-billion dollar climate deal with…
To save the planet, we must save the Amazon rainforest. To save the rainforest, we must save its indigenous peoples. And to do that, we must demarcate their land.
US scientist Thomas Lovejoy says the rainforest’s rich biodiversity has been undervalued compared to economic activities such as farming and mining.
The Amazon will be transformed into a “highly…
Tropical forests are guardians against runaway climate change, but their ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is wearing down. The Amazon, which accounts for more than half of the…
The future of the world's largest rainforest looks bleak. A new report for Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development concluded that the Amazon rainforest will collapse and largely…
Memories of Brazil’s dictatorship as plan threatens biodiverse home of three indigenous communities.
Brazilian activists have voiced alarm over their government’s plans to bulldoze a 94-mile highway…
Amazon’s 26 new projects include Europe’s largest offshore corporate PPA with Ørsted.
Amazon has added 3.4 gigawatts of new renewable power to its portfolio, taking its total capacity to 6.5 GW. …
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