Tag: Rainforest
The Whole World Wants the Amazon Protected. But Who Is Going to Pay for This?
When the Amazon burns it has an impact far beyond its own boundariesHolly Young ...
Reading the Burned Leaves of the Amazon Forest: There’s Crisis in the Future
The Amazon is battling record early-year fires, fueling fears of a worse climate crisis ...
Brazilian Hypocrisy: Green Talk and Brown Actions
Brazil’s massive 13 December 2023 auction of oil and gas drilling rights betrays a ...
How Brazil Is Privatizing Public Forests and Opening the Door for More Deforestation
Imagine that several state legislators decide that Yellowstone National Park is too big. Also ...
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 ...
One Year After Guardian of the Forest’s Murder Nothing Has Changed in the Brazilian Amazon
Illegal loggers are operating unchecked in Brazil’s Amazon as coronavirus rages despite government vows ...
The Radical Changes Fires Are Causing the Amazon Flora and Fauna
The number of fires burning in standing Amazon rainforest spiked dramatically in recent weeks, ...
Worried About Brazil Amazon’s Fires? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
The number of fires this year in the Amazon is the highest since 2010, ...
Turning It into a Magic Place Is Not Doing the Amazon Any Good
The Amazon, perhaps more than any other region of the globe, has consistently been ...
New Inventory Lowers the Number of Amazonian Trees Species from 16,200 to 6,700
Scientists report that the Amazon region has more than 6,700 species of native trees, ...
