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Global deforestation is declining, but forests are still under extreme pressure
Although the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) mentions slowing deforestation rates in its “State of the World’s ...
In Brazil, an Amazon reforestation project seeks to redeem carbon markets
In the Brazilian Amazon, workers use metal tubes to sow seedlings in rapid succession, as part of an effort to reforest the ...
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Satellite images reveal illegal deforestation is out of control in crucial region — here's what needs to be done
Authorities are also investigating the colonies since some of the land grab coincides with Indigenous communities. Satellite ...
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Amazon’s Global Warming Counterweight Threatened
Since the start of the 21st century, major planetary ecosystems, like the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica have consistently ...
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Washington Post hires Spring from Reuters
Washington Post climate and environment editor Zachary Goldfarb, deputy climate and environment editor Juliet Eilperin and climate and environment power and politics editor Roger Hodge sent out the ...
Jake Spring joins The Post as a Climate and Environment Enterprise Reporter
Spring has focused on unreported stories of environmental impacts of climate change and development across Latin America.
New data shows encouraging drop in damaging practice in the Amazon — but alarming challenges remain in the region
These results are being celebrated as a major win for conservationists and climate advocates. The Brazilian government, led ...
Deforestation Of The Brazilian Amazon
At its lowest level in the region for the past nine years in km2 *measured from the month of August to July in the year ...
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Humanity’s shrinking window: Reversing the Amazon’s slide toward the tipping point
The Amazon is perilously close to an ecological tipping point. According to a February paper in Nature, “by 2050, 10% to 47 percent of Amazonian forests will be exposed to compounding disturbances ...