While more than 130 wildfires are raging across two states in eastern Australia — Queensland and New South Wales — at an unusually early part of the spring, taxing the water supplies of the drought-stricken country, the country’s federal appointee for handling disasters expressed doubts that humans are causing the climate crisis. Then, the next […]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s environmental charity has pledged $5 million towards fighting the wildfires currently burning in the Amazon rainforest, The Guardian reported Monday. “The lungs of the Earth are in flames. The Brazilian Amazon — home to 1 million Indigenous people and 3 million species — has been burning for more than two weeks straight,” DiCaprio […]
Heavy smoke blanketed the city of Porto Velho in the northwestern state of Rondonia as military planes struggled to douse the fires raging in the Amazon that have raised an international outcry. A video posted by Brazil’s Ministry of Defense showed a C-130 Hercules plane, one of two sent to the region, dumping water out […]
By Manuella Libardi Leaked documents show that Jair Bolsonaro’s government intends to use the Brazilian president’s hate speech to isolate minorities living in the Amazon region. The PowerPoint slides, which democraciaAbierta has seen, also reveal plans to implement predatory projects that could have a devastating environmental impact. The Bolsonaro government has as one of its […]
Brazil‘s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro is giving President Trump a run for his money in the alternative facts department. Responding to international outrage following the news that there are record numbers of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, Bolsonaro tried to shift the blame away from his pro-business administration and onto an unlikely culprit: non-governmental […]
There are a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil‘s space agency has said. Their smoke is visible from space and shrouded the city of São Paulo in darkness for about an hour Monday afternoon, CBS news reported. “It was as if the day had turned into night,” São Paulo resident Gianvitor […]
Wildfires raging on Gran Canaria, the second most populous of Spain’s Canary Islands, have forced around 9,000 people to evacuate. The fires, which started Saturday, have entered the Tamadaba Natural Park, where some of the island’s oldest pine forests grow. Authorities called it an “an unprecedented environmental tragedy,” as BBC News reported Monday. We have […]
By Hans Nicholas Jong Indonesia’s president has made permanent a temporary moratorium on forest-clearing permits for plantations and logging. It’s a policy the government says has proven effective in curtailing deforestation, but whose apparent gains have been criticized by environmental activists as mere “propaganda.” Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said President Joko Widodo […]
By Marcello Rossi As extreme storms, flooding rains and devastating wildfires make some parts of the U.S. more challenging to live in, what Americans consider a nice place to call home is shifting — and with that some Americans are moving, too. That’s why cities like Duluth, Minnesota, Buffalo, New York and Cincinnati, Ohio, are […]
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