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When the Amazon burns it has an impact far beyond its own boundaries

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 ...

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Holly Young
A fire in a deforested area in Amazonas state, Brazil. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real

Brazil Determined to Hand Monitoring of Amazon Deforestation and Fire to the Military

In a recent announcement, Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão defended the creation of a ...

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Jenny Gonzales
Burning the land in the Brazilian Amazon is way too common. EPA-EFE/ROGERIO FLORENTINO

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 ...

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Federico Cammelli, Jos Barlow, and Rachael Garrett
Burning the trees to raise cattle in the Brazilian Amazon

The Price of Fighting Land-grabbing in the Amazon Can Be Your Life

Maria Marcia Elpidia de Melo hasn’t seen her son Elmiro for more than six ...

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Peter Yeung
Fires burning in the Amazon forest at the end of August 2019, in Porto Velho, Rondônia - Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace

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, ...

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Robert T. Walker