New Scientist

MAY 13, 2024

The world’s largest "ecoacoustic" survey, listening to Costa Rican rainforests, could pave the way for a network of sensors listening to the planet’s biodiversity in real time

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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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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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Earthava

AUGUST 27, 2024

The post What Are The Causes of Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest? The Amazon rainforest, Earth’s largest tropical forest, faces a serious threat from deforestation. Farmers clear land […] The post What Are The Causes of Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest? appeared first on Earthava.

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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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A Greener Life

JULY 1, 2021

The City of Gold Coast is undertaking one of Australia’s largest ever beachfront rainforest restoration projects. If you’ve ever taken in the natural beauty of the Gold Coast’s glorious beaches or strolled along the city’s golden coastline, chances are you’ve unknowingly appreciated littoral rainforest.

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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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Inhabitant

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Humans are barreling toward a catastrophic tipping point for the Amazon rainforest, according to a recent study by more than 200 scientists. If we don’t change our habits immediately, the damage will be irreversible.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 29, 2025

Volunteers have planted more than 2,500 native trees on pasture in southwest England, part of a larger effort to recreate the temperate rainforest that once dominated much of the British Isles. Read more on E360

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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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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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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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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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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The re-election of president Jair Bolsonaro would severely harm the Amazon rainforest, while his rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is promising to reverse much of the recent environmental damage and meet climate change targets

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

It travels north along the Mahakam River, and two days later arrives in the central highlands of Borneo’s ancient rainforests. The Dayak-Bahau man had been arrested for protesting the mass deforestation of his ancestral lands, Borneo’s tropical rainforests, which account for six percent of the world’s biodiversity.

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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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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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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.

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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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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. Photo by Andre Deak via Flickr.

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Earth 911

MAY 12, 2025

On today’s Sustainability In Your Ear episode, discover a transformative approach to rainforest conservation with. The post Earth911 Podcast: Cool Earth’s Hannah Peck Collaborates With Indigenous Communities To Preserve The Planet’s Remaining Rainforests appeared first on Earth911.

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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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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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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A species of leaf chameleon newly named Brookesia nofy was discovered in a patch of coastal rainforest, a highly threatened habitat in Madagascar

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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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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In Mexico , the rushed development of a tourist train across the Yucatan peninsula threatens biodiverse rainforests and Indigenous communities, drawing UN attention. The peninsula also comprises six UNESCO world heritage sites , which include protections for the country’s largest swath of tropical rainforests.

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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 east African nation of Madagascar is a large, biodiverse island that spans the equivalent length of Florida to the Canadian border.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 23, 2025

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator

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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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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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