Tag: Climate change
Brazil’s Killer Heat More Lethal to Blacks, Women and Older People
“The heat at night was too much; we couldn’t sleep,” says Evanice Auxiliadora da ...
Amazon Drought Can Turn the Forest into a Savannah
A severe drought in Brazil’s Amazon has damaged the forest ecosystem, brought chaos for ...
Amazon Drought Becomes Time Bomb for Pandemic Diseases
Home to the greatest biodiversity on the planet, the Amazon is also a ticking ...
40-year Study Shows Alarming Extreme Temperatures in Brazil
Released in February 2022, the latest report prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Will See More Changes in Five Decades than in the Last 21,000 Years
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Roughly ...
Brazil’s Amazon Needs New Development Model With Less Cattle and Soy and More Use of Biodiversity
President Jair Bolsonaro’s push to develop the Amazon through expanded mining and farming has ...
Amazon Deforestation to Endanger Hydropower and Water Supply in Brazil’s Big Cities
Climate change will increase the burdens on Brazil’s armed forces and endanger the country’s ...
The More Amazon Poor Farmers Burn the Forest the More They Need to Burn It
The 2019 fires in the Brazilian Amazon were the result of an alarming surge ...
How Trump and Bolsonaro are Accelerating Climate Change and Planetary Apocalpyse
The Amazon is burning. Once more, as in the 1990s, an “arc of fire” ...
World’s Religious Leaders Get Together in Norway to Rescue the Rainforest
Religious leaders from around the world are meeting for the first time with conservationists ...
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