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COP25 Ends With a Whimper: A Few Takeaways

COP25 Ends With a Whimper: A Few Takeaways

The longest UN climate meeting in history extended two extra days for a marathon bargaining session, but ended early Sunday morning with little accomplished. Policy makers mostly decided to punt strengthening their commitments to lower emissions and to a market for carbon emissions, until COP26 in Glasgow next December, the AP reported. Protestors denounced polluting […]

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    Amazon Deforestation Rate Highest in 11 Years

    Amazon Deforestation Rate Highest in 11 Years

    The deforestation rate in Brazil‘s Amazon rainforest is at its highest in more than a decade, CNN reported Tuesday. The latest figures come from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Using satellite data, the agency concluded that the forest lost 9,762 square kilometers (approximately 3,769 square miles) in the year leading up to July […]

    Illegal Loggers Murder Amazon Forest Guardian

    Illegal Loggers Murder Amazon Forest Guardian

    Illegal loggers shot and killed an indigenous defender of Brazil‘s Amazon rainforest, the Guajajara tribe announced Saturday, as Reuters reported. Paulo Paulino Guajajara, in his 20s, was a member of the Guajajara group Guardians of the Forest, which was formed in 2012 to protect the Araribóia reservation in Brazil’s Maranhão state. In an interview with […]

    Amazon Rainforest Could be Two Years from Irreversible ‘Tipping Point’

    Amazon Rainforest Could be Two Years from Irreversible ‘Tipping Point’

    If current deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest continue, the forest could be two years away from the “tipping point” after which it will no longer be able to sustain itself by making its own rain. That’s the warning issued by Monica de Bolle, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIEE), […]

    Brazil Experts: A ‘Genocide Is Underway’ Against Uncontacted Tribes

    Brazil Experts: A ‘Genocide Is Underway’ Against Uncontacted Tribes

    By Jessica Corbett In an open letter to Brazilian society and right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, a group of experts warned that a “genocide is underway” against uncontacted tribes because of Bolsonaro’s efforts to strip away Indigenous peoples’ rights and lands and open up more of the Amazon rainforest to agribusiness and mining. The letter, released […]

    Source of Vast Oil Spill Covering Brazil’s Northeast Coast Unknown

    Source of Vast Oil Spill Covering Brazil’s Northeast Coast Unknown

    Brazil’s main environmental agency said on Thursday the source of a sprawling oil spill along the northeast coast remains unknown, but that the crude oil was not produced in the country. The spill stretches over 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) of Brazil’s northeast coast, affecting 46 cities and around one hundred of the country’s nicest beaches […]

    At Least 500 Jaguars Lost Their Lives or Habitat in Amazon Fires

    At Least 500 Jaguars Lost Their Lives or Habitat in Amazon Fires

    By Shreya Dasgupta The fires ravaging the Amazon forest in Brazil and Bolivia this year have burned key habitats of at least 500 adult, resident jaguars as of Sept. 17, rendering them dead or homeless, say experts at Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization. “The number of homeless or dead jaguars has undoubtedly increased […]

    What to Expect From Today’s UN Climate Action Summit

    What to Expect From Today’s UN Climate Action Summit

    Today is the United Nations Climate Action Summit, a gathering called by UN Secretary General António Guterres to encourage climate action ahead of 2020, the year when countries are due to up their pledges under the Paris agreement. Guterres has asked countries to announce “concrete, realistic” steps that will reduce global emissions by 45 percent […]