Tag: Amazon Rainforest
As Amazon rainforest burns, Brazil’s environment minister to meet US group...
A Greenpeace Brazil campaingner says the Bolsonaro government "makes efforts to deny the problems, not to face them."
Brazil’s indigenous peoples have long united against deforestation
When rain started to fall on the flames overtaking the area around the small Amazonian town of Lábrea, Brazil, Marcos Apurinã let...
Record number of fires burning in Amazon rainforest
There are a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's space agency has said. Their smoke is visible from space and shrouded the...
Amazon Rainforest deforestation at its worst – equivalent to the size...
While the new data still represents a 72 percent drop from 2004 when implementation of combative deforestation measures were put in place, the increased rate in the past 10 years has many worried.
Peru’s newest national park safeguards 2 million acres of Amazon Rainforest
The designation is intended to conserve the region's precious biodiversity and protect the sacred lands of the indigenous communities that live around Yaguas.
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Third police officer sentenced to prison for framing black males
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800 scientists sign declaration of support for global climate justice activists
"We believe it is our moral duty to act now, and we urge other scientists to join us in helping to protect humanity’s only home."
Trump is selling out America in Syria and beyond
The most xenophobic and isolationist American president in modern history has been selling America to foreign powers for his personal benefit. That’s...
America’s dairyland may have a PFAS problem
First, there was Fred Stone, the third-generation dairy farmer in Maine who discovered that the milk from his cows contained harmful chemicals. Then...
Homewreckers: How Wall Street, banks & Trump’s inner circle used the 2008 housing crash...
We speak with investigative reporter Aaron Glantz about his new book “Homewreckers,” which looks at the devastating legacy of the foreclosure crisis...