Amazon rainforests
Biden touts climate legacy in landmark Amazon visit
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden paid an historic trip to the Amazon rainforest on Sunday to promote his record on fighting climate change, insisting it would survive Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Fires taking Amazon forest closer to ‘point of no return’: expert
A YEAR ago, Carlos Nobre, one of Brazil’s top climate scientists, was a rare voice of optimism about the future of the planet.
Amazon forest loses area the size of Germany and France, fueling fires
THE Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, fueling drought and record wildfires across South America, experts said on Monday...
Amazon deforestation rises for the first time in 15 months
DEFORESTATION in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest increased in July for the first time in 15 months, according to official data released on Wednesday.
Photography is ‘mirror on society’: Sebastiao Salgado
HE MIGHT be 80 but Sebastiao Salgado, the Brazilian photojournalist who has spent five decades chronicling the world around us, is not ready to hang up his camera yet.
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon down by 50% to five-year low in 2023
DEFORESTATION in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest in 2023 halved from the previous year to its lowest level since 2018, government data showed on Friday (Jan 12), a major win for President Luiz Inacio Lula ...
World far off track on pledges to end deforestation by 2030: report
THE world is moving too slowly to meet pledges to end deforestation by 2030, with the destruction worsening in 2022, according to a report by a coalition of environmental organisations released on Mon...
Tree-hugging AI to the rescue of Brazilian Amazon
SMALL, artificially intelligent (AI) boxes tied to tree trunks in the Brazilian Amazon are the latest weapon in the arsenal of scientists and environmentalists battling destructive jungle invaders.
Of stories, songs, skills and shamans
How traditional indigenous education helped four lost children survive 40 days in the Amazon jungle
