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Amazon poised to host toughest climate talks in years Nov 10-21

BELEM, Brazil – An odor of oil hung over last year’s UN climate conference in Baku, capital of fossil fuel-rich Azerbaijan. Starting Monday, the 50,000...

Brazil boasts drop in deforestation

BRASILIA – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth straight year, the government said Thursday, a boost for the country just...

Biden in ‘historic’ pledge for poor nations ahead of Trump return

US President Joe Biden announced a "historic" $4 billion pledge for a World Bank fund that helps the world's poorest countries, the White House...

Amazon forest has lost an area the size of Germany and France

The world's biggest rainforest, the Amazon, has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, a...

Smoke from Brazil fires clouds major cities, neighboring countries

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Smoke from intense wildfires in the Amazon rainforest and other parts of Brazil was choking major cities, like Sao Paulo...

Amazon nears climate ‘tipping point’ faster than expected

Hammered by climate change and relentless deforestation, the Amazon rainforest is losing its capacity to recover and could irretrievably transition into savannah, with dire...

Amazon deforestation threatens jaguars, giant eagles

Boating slowly upriver through the Pantanal, the world's biggest tropical wetlands, Brazilian biologist Fernando Tortato scans the bank for signs of Ousado, a jaguar...

COP26 leaders vow new drive to save forests

World leaders meeting at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow will on Tuesday issue a multibillion-dollar pledge to end deforestation by 2030 but that...

Black Jesus born in burnt Amazon at Brazil church manger

Instead of a manger in Bethlehem, Jesus will arrive this Christmas in a badly burned clearing in the Amazon rainforest, a black baby born...

Bolsonaro vows to name and shame illegal wood importers

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro vowed Tuesday to publish a list of countries that import illegal wood from the Amazon rainforest, saying it included many...

Brazilian military plane flew illegal Amazon miners

Brazilian prosecutors alleged Friday that a military airplane was inappropriately used to fly a group of illegal miners operating in the Amazon rainforest to...

Putting out the fire

Governors of nine Brazilian states most affected by the record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest have urged their president, Jair Bolsonaro, to...

G7 leaders wrestle with Iran, Amazon fires, but own unity shaky

Biarritz, France"•G7 leaders close their summit Monday with the discussion of world problems including the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest but overshadowed by President...

Environmental cancer

The frame of raging fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is a stirring scene. This has prompted scientists to warn that the fires could thrust...
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