Despite the electoral victory of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — who has promised to end deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by 2030 — the forest just experienced its worst February on record. Brazil’s INPE space research institute’s DETER monitoring system found that 80.6 square miles of forest had been cleared as of Feb. […]
Right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro approved a law late Wednesday that would extend the nation’s coal use by more than a decade. Previously, the government was supposed to end subsidies for coal plants by 2027 and rescind the authorization for three new plants in particular by 2025. But the new “just transition” law allows for coal use through at least 2040.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is at its highest level in 15 years, the latest data from Brazil‘s space agency INPE has found. The news casts doubt on Brazil’s credibility after it signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030 at this month’s COP26 climate conference, which it further promised to meet by 2028. The […]
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged during the month of April, ending a streak of three consecutive months where forest clearing had been lower than the prior year. The rise in deforestation came despite a high-profile pledge from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to rein in deforestation in Earth’s largest rainforest. According to preliminary deforestation alert […]
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. Protecting the Amazon, the latest special film program from EarthxTV, explains the need for these actions and how to work in solidarity with indigenous peoples to […]
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 become a dry, shrubby plain by 2064. Development, deforestation and the climate crisis are to blame, study author and University of Florida geologist Robert Toovey Walker […]
According to Brazil’s space agency (Inpe), deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has surged to its highest level since 2008, the BBC reported. Despite Brazil previously setting a goal of slowing the pace of deforestation to 3,900 sq km annually by 2020, deforestation increased 9.5% from last year, and a total of 11,088 sq km (4,281 […]
The world passed two troubling milestones Sunday, as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases topped 10 million and the number of deaths surpassed 500,000. This means the death toll has doubled in less than two months, The New York Times pointed out, from 250,000 in early May. In April, it topped 100,000. The number of […]
By Daniel Ross The wildfires that tore across Australia were as devastating as they were overwhelming, scorching some 15 million hectares of land, killing 34 people and more than 1 billion animals. In terms of its apocalyptic imagery — sweeping infernos torching great swaths with unerring speed — Australia’s wildfires were hauntingly reminiscent of the […]
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