More than 75% of Amazon rainforest near tipping point, may transform into dry savanna: Study
Researchers say it is not too late to act; reducing deforestation will protect the forest’s threatened parts and boost Amazon rainforest …
Brazil launches operation against mining mafia on Indigenous land
Special forces destroy aircraft and seize weapons; non-profit Amazon Watch asks for probe into those behind the ‘horror’
The Amazon fire: This and next time
Fires like the current one lead to wholesale irreversible changes in the structure and composition of forest ecosystems, impoverishing both their …
Will Jair Bolsonaro destroy the Amazon and its Indians?
It remains to be seen whether Brazil’s President-Elect will act on his pre-poll statements vis-à-vis Amazonia and its natives. …
Fight fire with trade: How Europe can help save the Amazon
The EU is already responsible for hefty imports from the Mercosur bloc; it imports 10 million tonnes of soy (for livestock feed) and over 200,000 …
‘Due to the Amazon fires, we will lose the battle against climate change’
Down To Earth speaks to Aline Carrara, Brazilian researcher, social scientist and conservation practitioner with a focus on Amazonia about the …
Germany commits over $200 million for shattered Brazilian Amazon; but is it enough?
The flow of capital alone won’t combat the issue of deforestation until its amalgamation with government policies and laws regarding the …
Deforestation embargoes in Brazilian Amazon not followed in over 85% area: Report
Embargoes helped revive only 13% forest area
Brazil lost rainforest the size of Jamaica in 2019-2020: Institute
There was a 9.5 per cent jump in deforestation of the Brazillian Amazon since 2019, in line with President Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-…
Nasa satellite imagery finds tremendous changes in Amazon in last 40 years
The scale of losses in forests land, increase in pasture land, shift in land use policy driven by economic forces are seen nowhere else in the world
What an Indian environmentalist in Brazil has to say on the Amazon fires
Kerala-born environmental scientist Shaji Thomas, who has been working in the Amazon for the past 25 years, shares his thoughts on the infernos …
Why fires that scorched the Amazon are a planetary emergency
From the Arctic to the Amazon, fires are raging at an unprecedented scale, stoking an unfathomable fear: is the planet staring at an irreversible …
Climate change has a history of disrupting civilisations, study finds
Major shifts in temperature and rainfall in the first millennium affected agriculture and also caused the decline of many indigenous groups in …
Climate tipping points could lock in unstoppable changes to the planet — how close are they?
Small patches of the Amazon and northern forests might tip and transition to a savannah-like state first, bypassing a more catastrophic …
Literature from the Congo Basin offers ways to address the climate crisis
Literature offers ways to communicate about complex issues like the current global climate emergency
Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon
8.4 million soccer fields of land deforested in the Amazon over the past decade
Amazonian wildlife: Collateral damage of the inferno
The fires that raged and are still raging in the Amazon rainforest, have had an impact on not just human lives but also animals
African grasslands are meant to burn – we can't let this distract from the Amazon fires
The world should be more bothered about the Amazon than about the fires in Africa's savnnahs
That gadget of yours may have illegally mined gold from the Amazon
The supply chains of the planet’s most valuable electronics and electric car companies are being supplied by two refineries under …
Quarter of the Amazon at point of no return, says new report; still possible to save remainder
Some 66% of the Amazon is subject to some type of constant or permanent pressure
President Lula calls Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 actions ‘genocide’, to reinstate Bolsa Familia
Veteran leftist leader aims for zero deforestation in the Amazon; zero greenhouse gas emissions in electricity matrix
Amazon new Africa headquarters being built on sacred land: Indigenous communities protest
Environmental concerns were disregarded while granting the go-ahead to the project
The dreaded rainforest shift
The implications of the world’s largest rainforest competing with human-generated greenhouse gases are alarming
Amazon fires declined in September, but deforestation persists: Amazon Watch
The outbreak of fires in the rainforest declined 19.6 per cent compared to the same period last year
Amazonian biodiversity: Indigenous convoy to bring focus to threats during Montreal summit
Non-profit Amazon Watch, among others, to participate in COP15 CBD
