Legal Planet
APRIL 13, 2023
The Amazon rainforest on the Urubu River. Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental. There is, therefore, no legally valid option to simply omit to combat climate change,” the ruling said.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 16, 2021
Though its northern and central regions are lush with tropical weather and rainforests, the south is historically dry, comprising vast desert stretches. The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement established a $100 billion yearly budget to aid developing nations combat climate change.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
The Greenland Ice Sheet, like the Amazon rainforest, is fast approaching a juncture of degradation that the Himalayan and Tien Shan glaciers have already breached. The biggest barriers to progress are political and psychological. But science also tells us that we have most of the technologies and solutions that we need.
Inside Climate News
JANUARY 16, 2023
By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Rather than entering that debate, I’d like to reflect on how issues of colonialism might relate to climate change. The second concern is political domination, meaning that the autonomy of either the other country as a whole or parts of its population is impaired. I don’t purport to be an expert on that.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 2, 2021
Eastward, across gnarled rivers and historic indigenous homelands, the great Amazon Rainforest paints this basin shades of green, refreshing much of the world’s oxygen. . BR-364, the 2,700-mile asphalt strip that weaves through rainforest to connect São Paulo to Acre, might soon be lengthened.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 10, 2021
They’re in that dangerous, dangerous place because of colonial politics, but of course they’ve developed relationships with that land, and practiced their culture there,” Palmer said. It travels north along the Mahakam River, and two days later arrives in the central highlands of Borneo’s ancient rainforests. The name embraces St.
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