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Deforestation harms climate less than other degradation
Publicado em 06 agosto 2024
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva came into office in 2023 pledging to tackle deforestation in the Amazon and restore his country as a climate leader after years of intense destruction in the world's largest rainforest under predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.
Lula's commitment to end deforestation by 2030 is on track with tighter enforcement helping to cut deforestation rates by more than half, according to government figures. But a new study indicates that deforestation [...]
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Floods in south Brazil have displaced 600,000. It's the new normal
Publicado em 17 maio 2024A mighty river is flowing out of the Amazon rainforest, and it's not the one you're thinking of. In the first kilometre above the forest canopy, a “flying river” is transporting moisture evaporated from Amazonian trees southwards along the Andes mountains towards Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil. Almost the entire state – an area larger than the UK – is currently affected by unprecedented floods . The flying river has acted like a firehose, [...]ver notícia