New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

About 26 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has already been lost or badly degraded and without intervention the rest could transform into savannah, says a report on its status

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Rainforest 97

New Scientist

DECEMBER 28, 2022

New political leaders in Brazil and Colombia have promised to protect the rainforest, raising hopes of saving the ecosystem from becoming savannah

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Inhabitant

JULY 15, 2021

A recent study in Nature shows that the Amazon rainforest is now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs. For the first time, scientists have confirmed that despite once being the largest carbon sink in the world, the rainforest has turned into a pollutant due to high rates of deforestation.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 7, 2022

A suite of plant and animal fossils from a site in New South Wales date back about 16 million years to a time when the region was blanketed in lush rainforests

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Rainforest 98

New Scientist

MARCH 7, 2022

More than three quarters of the world's largest rainforest has become less resilient since the early 2000s, with areas near humans and with lower rainfall the worst hit

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Rainforest 98

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.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Fragments of temperate rainforest grow in parts of England, Wales and Scotland, and with the right action we could help them thrive

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Rainforest 90

Inside Climate News

MARCH 7, 2022

By Georgina Gustin The world’s largest rainforest is losing its ability to bounce back from droughts and fires, pushing it farther toward a threshold where it could transform into arid savannah, releasing dangerous amounts of greenhouse gases in the process.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Brazil has cleared large parts of the Amazon rainforest for use as farmland, encouraging economic growth but causing environmental harm. Now researchers suggest that making intense use of already cleared land could avoid the need to fell any more trees

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Rainforest 74

Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Rainforest Alliance and Hershey Sued for Falsely Claiming Fair Labor and Sustainability Sierra Club PaulaR Fri, 01/26/2024 - 17:41 Thursday, January 18, 2024 Read more Jessian Choy The class action lawsuit seeks to hold ecolabel certifiers accountable By Jessian Choy January 18, 2024

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Yale E360

AUGUST 8, 2023

Soils are more rich in life than coral reefs or rainforest canopies, providing a home to nearly two-thirds of all species, according to a sprawling new analysis. Read more on E360 →

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Rainforest 246

Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rare and internationally important Celtic rainforests in Scotland are to be restored and expanded as part of a £500 million national investment in the country’s natural economy. Read the full story at The Scotsman. Read more →

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New Scientist

AUGUST 20, 2024

Scientists have found significant concentrations of a type of PFAS chemical in the air deep in the Amazon rainforest, suggesting it travelled over 100 kilometres from an industrial hub

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Rainforest 124

Yale E360

MARCH 31, 2022

From birdsong in the rainforest to whale calls in the oceans, the world is losing the variety of sounds that enriches life. Habitat loss, species extinctions, and industrial noise all contribute to this sonic loss, which cuts off a vital human connection to the Earth. Read more on E360 ?.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 4, 2023

From Ethiopia’s highlands to Siberia to the Australian rainforest, there are thousands of sacred forests that have survived thanks to traditional religious and spiritual beliefs. These places, many now under threat, have ecological importance, experts say, and must be saved. Read more on E360 →.

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Rainforest 286

New Scientist

JULY 9, 2024

US start-up Savor says its synthetic vegan fat, made without livestock or the crops needed for margarine, could cut carbon emissions and save rainforests

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Yale E360

JANUARY 12, 2023

In an interview with Yale Environment 360 , he talks about his new book, which explores the complex web of issues underpinning the deforestation of the world’s largest rainforest. Journalist Heriberto Araujo spent four years reporting on the destruction of the Brazilian Amazon. Read more on E360 →.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 31, 2023

Rainforests are carbon sinks, absorbing 7.6 Rainforest nations need an estimated $100 billion to ensure the survival of their lands. billion metric tons of CO2 annually. The carbon markets will raise some of that money. But the trading system must be accredited.

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The Applied Ecologist

AUGUST 1, 2023

This month, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the voice of early career ecologists from around the world working in the field of applied ecology to help inspire the next generation. In this post, Charlotte Raven, a second-year PhD student at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, shares her story.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 16, 2024

Global warming made hot, dry weather that fuels wildfires more likely in places such as Canada, Greece and the Amazon rainforest last year, new research says

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Climate models suggest that deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia will cause feedback loops that contribute to longer El Niño and La Niña events, bringing more extreme impacts around the world

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Yale E360

JULY 11, 2022

In the first half of this year, deforestation claimed roughly 1,500 square miles of the Amazon rainforest, an area five times the size of New York City and the greatest loss since at least 2016, according to the Brazilian Space Agency. Read more on E360 ?.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Archaeological surveys have uncovered earthworks built by pre-Columbian societies across the Amazon, suggesting the rainforest isn't as pristine as we once thought

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Rainforest 145

New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The forests of the Maya Biosphere Reserve are growing rather than shrinking, because of a community-led conservation programme

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New Scientist

AUGUST 23, 2023

Satellite sensing reveals tropical forests are much closer to a major tipping point than previously thought, but are only likely to pass it in worst-case warming scenarios

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Rainforest 96

New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Tamarins living near cities in the Amazon Rainforest use odour to communicate nearly twice as often as usual when noise pollution spikes from nearby freeways or town centres

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Rainforest 121

Cool Green Science

JANUARY 14, 2024

A group of villages in Papua New Guinea decided to protect their damaged rainforests from future clearcuts. A photographer captured that work in action. The post Communities Unite to Save Papua New Guinea’s Forests from Logging appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Yale E360

MARCH 25, 2021

A mine tailings dam planned for a seismically unstable area of Sumatra’s rainforest would be at high risk of failure, experts warn. The dam’s collapse would be a disaster, they say, releasing a wall of slurry that would engulf and bury Indigenous villages and their inhabitants. Read more on E360 ?.

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Rainforest 199

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern. After a decade of dry conditions, a drought in Brazil is straining the country’s economy, energy systems, and environment. Reservoirs are dwindling, causing major deficits in hydroelectric power.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Orchids that grow on trees in the forest canopy may access food by connecting to a network of fungal threads

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Rainforest 98

Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

Here’s a selection of recent headlines, which I only wish I had made up for April Fool’s Day.

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Sea Level Rainforest Ocean Climate Change 230

Yale E360

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Parts of the Amazon rainforest degraded by human activities such as farming, timber extraction, and burning are markedly hotter, drier, and more flammable, and store less carbon than areas of intact forest, according to a new survey of more than 33,000 acres. Read more on E360 ?.

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Rainforest 176

Inside Climate News

JULY 14, 2021

The study, which found greater depletion of carbon storage in the heavily deforested eastern Amazon, confirmed previous research that used satellites or hands-on measuring techniques.

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New Scientist

MARCH 8, 2022

As rodents called agoutis avoid areas where ocelots prowl, they spread fewer of the palm seeds they eat, which could lead to a cascade of changes in biodiversity throughout Panama’s forests

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Rainforest 74

New Scientist

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The area of forest felled in the Congo basin rose last year, but schemes giving power to Indigenous communities could be key to reversing the trend

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Rainforest 66

Scientific American

JANUARY 27, 2023

A pair of studies raise concerns that the Amazon rainforest may be approaching a point of no return

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Yale E360

JULY 20, 2022

In the past six years, Brazil's Federal Police have undertaken just a handful of operations to stem the destruction of unprotected lands in the Amazon Rainforest, according to a new report. Read more on E360 ?.

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Rainforest 113