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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

Key updates reflect a dynamic landscape, from shifting deforestation rates in the Amazon to ground breaking initiatives in clean energy. Deforestation decline in the Amazon Deforestation in the Amazon has reached a nine-year low, with a significant 30.6% decrease compared to the previous year.

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Day After Earth Day, the Climate Pope, and the 89%

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EPA wont center on the waiver itself, which oil and biofuel interests had sued over. Amazon & COP30 Some good news and bad news about deforestation in Latin America: Tree cover is declining generally, but theres new data from University of Maryland about where its returning. The arguments in Diamond Alternative Energy v.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

3] From 1981 to 2015, the population of humans living in extreme poverty plummeted from 44 percent to 10 percent. [4] Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] Central America, South America, Africa, and Oceania are still deforesting. percent drop in pasture land since 2000. [13]