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'Red Alert': Fire Wipes Out Tropical Rainforest Twice The Size Of Belgium
Loss of tree cover in 2024 -- from deforestation and fires, deliberate or accidental -- generated more than three billion tonnes of CO2 pollution.
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5 Survive Bolivian Alligator-Filled Swamp For 36 Hours After Plane's Emergency Landing
Five people survived for 36 hours in a swamp filled with alligators after an emergency landing in the Bolivian Amazon.
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Race To Save The Amazon's Bushy-Bearded Monkeys
The monkey, a Groves' Titi, listed as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), had ventured far from its fast-shrinking home on a hill in a small patch of forest next to Schlindwein's house.
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Brazil Is Losing Surface Water To Climate Change, Land Conversion
Brazil is home to 12 per cent of Earth's freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and land conversion from forest to farming take their toll, a report said Friday.
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This Forest In Africa, About The Size Of Mexico Is Largest Dry Woodland
Most of us, as early as in our school days, learnt about the Amazon being the largest rainforest in the world. But there's another forest, about the size of Mexico, in Africa, covered with tropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands.
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Isolated Indigenous Man Leaves Amazon Forest, Returns In 24 Hours
Locals believe the young man was seeking fire, as a video showed one resident attempting - unsuccessfully - to teach him how to use a lighter.
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Buried Alive? The Surreal Story Of How Covid Took Over A City In The Amazon
Juan Pablo Vaquero was pronounced dead in the Peruvian Amazonian city of Iquitos in the first wave of COVID-19 in April 2020. His sister wasn't allowed to see his body. Three days later came home after waking up in a pile of corpses in the jungle.
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Climate Change Could Reduce Amazon's Methane Absorbtion By 70%: Study
Extreme temperatures and humidity driven by climate change could reduce the Amazon rainforest's capacity to absorb the greenhouse gas methane by 70 per cent, a study has found.
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Amazon Forest Has Lost Area The Size Of Germany, France To Deforestation
The world's biggest rainforest, the Amazon, has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, a study showed Monday.
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Pics: A Continent Ablaze - South America Surpasses Record For Forest Fires
South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a year up to September 11.
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Brazilians "Struggle To Breathe" As Amazon Forest Burns In Wildfire
Residents of Porto Velho in the Brazilian Amazon have barely seen sunlight in days as a thick cloud of smoke from forest fires envelops their city.
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Man Describes How It Was Like To Be 'Eaten Alive' By Anaconda: "Ribs Exploded"
Anacondas are a group of large boas that are found in tropical South America. They are known to kill their prey by constricting them.
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In Amazon, Butterflies Play Key Role In Combating Climate Change
Biologists on a trail in the Ecuadoran Amazon hold their breath as they distribute a foul-smelling delicacy to lure butterflies, critical pollinators increasingly threatened by climate change.
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New Species Of Giant Green Anaconda Discovered In Ecuador's Rainforest
Researchers in the Amazon have discovered the world's largest snake species - an enormous green anaconda - in Ecuador's rainforest that split off from its closest relatives 10 million years ago though they still nearly look identical to this day.
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Destruction Of Amazon Rainforest Declined Over 55% This Year, Says Study
Destruction across the Amazon rainforest so far this year has slowed dramatically, down 55.8% from the same period a year ago in a major turnaround for the region vital to curbing climate change, according to an analysis provided to Reuters.
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'Red Alert': Fire Wipes Out Tropical Rainforest Twice The Size Of Belgium
Loss of tree cover in 2024 -- from deforestation and fires, deliberate or accidental -- generated more than three billion tonnes of CO2 pollution.
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5 Survive Bolivian Alligator-Filled Swamp For 36 Hours After Plane's Emergency Landing
Five people survived for 36 hours in a swamp filled with alligators after an emergency landing in the Bolivian Amazon.
-
Race To Save The Amazon's Bushy-Bearded Monkeys
The monkey, a Groves' Titi, listed as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), had ventured far from its fast-shrinking home on a hill in a small patch of forest next to Schlindwein's house.
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Brazil Is Losing Surface Water To Climate Change, Land Conversion
Brazil is home to 12 per cent of Earth's freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and land conversion from forest to farming take their toll, a report said Friday.
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This Forest In Africa, About The Size Of Mexico Is Largest Dry Woodland
Most of us, as early as in our school days, learnt about the Amazon being the largest rainforest in the world. But there's another forest, about the size of Mexico, in Africa, covered with tropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands.
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Isolated Indigenous Man Leaves Amazon Forest, Returns In 24 Hours
Locals believe the young man was seeking fire, as a video showed one resident attempting - unsuccessfully - to teach him how to use a lighter.
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Buried Alive? The Surreal Story Of How Covid Took Over A City In The Amazon
Juan Pablo Vaquero was pronounced dead in the Peruvian Amazonian city of Iquitos in the first wave of COVID-19 in April 2020. His sister wasn't allowed to see his body. Three days later came home after waking up in a pile of corpses in the jungle.
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Climate Change Could Reduce Amazon's Methane Absorbtion By 70%: Study
Extreme temperatures and humidity driven by climate change could reduce the Amazon rainforest's capacity to absorb the greenhouse gas methane by 70 per cent, a study has found.
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Amazon Forest Has Lost Area The Size Of Germany, France To Deforestation
The world's biggest rainforest, the Amazon, has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, a study showed Monday.
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Pics: A Continent Ablaze - South America Surpasses Record For Forest Fires
South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a year up to September 11.
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Brazilians "Struggle To Breathe" As Amazon Forest Burns In Wildfire
Residents of Porto Velho in the Brazilian Amazon have barely seen sunlight in days as a thick cloud of smoke from forest fires envelops their city.
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Man Describes How It Was Like To Be 'Eaten Alive' By Anaconda: "Ribs Exploded"
Anacondas are a group of large boas that are found in tropical South America. They are known to kill their prey by constricting them.
-
In Amazon, Butterflies Play Key Role In Combating Climate Change
Biologists on a trail in the Ecuadoran Amazon hold their breath as they distribute a foul-smelling delicacy to lure butterflies, critical pollinators increasingly threatened by climate change.
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New Species Of Giant Green Anaconda Discovered In Ecuador's Rainforest
Researchers in the Amazon have discovered the world's largest snake species - an enormous green anaconda - in Ecuador's rainforest that split off from its closest relatives 10 million years ago though they still nearly look identical to this day.
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Destruction Of Amazon Rainforest Declined Over 55% This Year, Says Study
Destruction across the Amazon rainforest so far this year has slowed dramatically, down 55.8% from the same period a year ago in a major turnaround for the region vital to curbing climate change, according to an analysis provided to Reuters.
