Astronaut’s stunning photo shows ‘flowing silver snakes’
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has captured some stunning images of Earth showing flowing silver snakes ...
Deforestation in the Amazon is driven more by domestic demand than by the export market, finds study
Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA)—which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes ...
Brazil's Lula to Talk Climate at U.N. but Amazon Wildfires Undermine Message
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is set to open the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with a call for ...
Firms including Amazon to buy $180 million in carbon credits from namesake rainforest
Amazon and other companies have agreed to buy carbon offset credits that will support the conservation of its namesake ...
Earth’s ‘second lung’ is under threat. Losing the Congo Basin forests would set the fight against climate change back 20 years
Earth’s second great rainforest has been largely neglected,' warns the newly appointed U.N. Special Envoy of the Science ...
How Can Brazil’s Amazon Resist Longer Floods And Stronger Droughts?
To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to ...
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Domestic Demand Fuels Amazon Deforestation More Than Exports
Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA) – which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes ...
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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, ...
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Amazon Leads $180M Carbon Offset Deal to Save Brazilian Rainforest
Amazon, along with other major companies, will purchase $180 million worth of carbon offset credits to conserve Brazil's Para rainforest. The deal, facilitated by the LEAF Coalition, aims to curb ...
Nat Geo Leverages Cutting-Edge Technology To Bring The Amazon To Life
This article explores how innovative technologies—such as interactive 3D mapping, augmented reality (AR), and immersive media ...
Camper Wakes in Horror to Sight of Hundreds of Ants Dismantling Tent
An outdoorsman in the Amazon arose to the nightmare of ants destroying his tent, allowing larger insects to get inside.
Brazil faces record wildfires and drought — and it may only get worse
The flames of tens of thousands of fires have torn over millions of acres this summer, making this year the worst for Amazon ...