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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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Tropical Tree in Panama Evolves Shocking Defense, Strikes Rivals with Lightning Bolts
A few studies describe the tree as having strong internal conductivity, letting lightning current flow through without building up damaging heat like a well-insulated wire. Because they tend to grow large — up to 130 feet (40 meters)—and live for centuries, a single tonka bean tree is estimated to be struck at least five times after reaching ma...
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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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Biden Visits Amazon, The Jungle That Nearly Killed Teddy Roosevelt
Joe Biden on Sunday will be the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon -- the vast tropical rainforest that nearly killed a predecessor, Teddy Roosevelt, after he left office.
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Human Settlement Evidence From 55,000 Years Ago Discovered Near West Papua, Claims Study
New archaeological research has uncovered evidence of human settlement near West Papua dating back over 55,000 years. This discovery, made in Mololo Cave on Waigeo Island, sheds light on the early migration routes into the Pacific, revealing how ancient humans adapted to life in tropical rainforests and coastal regions. The excavation, a collaborat...
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Malaika Arora In A Black Swim Set Found A "Little Piece Of Peace" On Her Tropical Australian Holiday
Malaika Arora has redefined the meaning of a tropical holiday by spending quality time at this Australian rainforest
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Brazil Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro Faces Investigation For Harassing Humpback Whale
He was filmed within 15 meters of the whale, using a mobile phone to capture the distressed behaviours of the whale.
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Tropical Forest Size Of Football Pitch, Lost Every 5 Second: Report
Earth lost an area of carbon-absorbing rainforest larger than Switzerland or the Netherlands in 2022, most of it destroyed to make way for cattle and commodity crops, an analysis of satellite data released on Tuesday revealed.
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Tropical Rainforest Doesn't Catch Fire, Amazon Is Burning Is A Lie: Brazil President
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said it is a "lie" that fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest, despite data from his own government showing the number of blazes is rising.
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Warplanes Dump Water On Amazon As Brazil Military Begins Fighting Fires
Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to a global outcry over the destruction of the world's largest tropical rain forest.
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Amazon Opens Plant-Filled 'The Spheres' Buildings
The Spheres are the newest addition to Amazon's "urban campus" in Seattle, and are billed as a workplace "more like a tropical rainforest in the clouds than an office."
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Benefits of Eating Chocolate: Why It is the Best Gift for Your Valentine
The unending story of chocolate begins with cocoa trees that grew wild in the tropical rainforests of the Amazon basin and other areas in Central and South America for thousands of years
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Brazil Losing Forest The Size Of Two Football Fields Per Minute
Latin America's largest country is still losing tropical forests the size of two football fields every minute, despite attempts to tackle illegal logging and improve local land rights, a former head of Brazil's forestry service has said.
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Endangered Monkey-Eating Eagle Hatched In Philippines
A monkey-eating eagle has been hatched in captivity in the Philippines, boosting the critically-endangered giant bird's fight against extinction.
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Forest Paradise Re-Emerges in Philippine Capital
A tropical rainforest has regrown against all odds on the edge of the Philippine capital's biggest open-air dump, and is now a patch of green paradise in a sprawling metropolis blighted by giant slums.
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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.
-
Tropical Tree in Panama Evolves Shocking Defense, Strikes Rivals with Lightning Bolts
A few studies describe the tree as having strong internal conductivity, letting lightning current flow through without building up damaging heat like a well-insulated wire. Because they tend to grow large — up to 130 feet (40 meters)—and live for centuries, a single tonka bean tree is estimated to be struck at least five times after reaching ma...
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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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Biden Visits Amazon, The Jungle That Nearly Killed Teddy Roosevelt
Joe Biden on Sunday will be the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon -- the vast tropical rainforest that nearly killed a predecessor, Teddy Roosevelt, after he left office.
-
Human Settlement Evidence From 55,000 Years Ago Discovered Near West Papua, Claims Study
New archaeological research has uncovered evidence of human settlement near West Papua dating back over 55,000 years. This discovery, made in Mololo Cave on Waigeo Island, sheds light on the early migration routes into the Pacific, revealing how ancient humans adapted to life in tropical rainforests and coastal regions. The excavation, a collaborat...
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Malaika Arora In A Black Swim Set Found A "Little Piece Of Peace" On Her Tropical Australian Holiday
Malaika Arora has redefined the meaning of a tropical holiday by spending quality time at this Australian rainforest
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Brazil Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro Faces Investigation For Harassing Humpback Whale
He was filmed within 15 meters of the whale, using a mobile phone to capture the distressed behaviours of the whale.
-
Tropical Forest Size Of Football Pitch, Lost Every 5 Second: Report
Earth lost an area of carbon-absorbing rainforest larger than Switzerland or the Netherlands in 2022, most of it destroyed to make way for cattle and commodity crops, an analysis of satellite data released on Tuesday revealed.
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Tropical Rainforest Doesn't Catch Fire, Amazon Is Burning Is A Lie: Brazil President
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said it is a "lie" that fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest, despite data from his own government showing the number of blazes is rising.
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Warplanes Dump Water On Amazon As Brazil Military Begins Fighting Fires
Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to a global outcry over the destruction of the world's largest tropical rain forest.
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Amazon Opens Plant-Filled 'The Spheres' Buildings
The Spheres are the newest addition to Amazon's "urban campus" in Seattle, and are billed as a workplace "more like a tropical rainforest in the clouds than an office."
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Benefits of Eating Chocolate: Why It is the Best Gift for Your Valentine
The unending story of chocolate begins with cocoa trees that grew wild in the tropical rainforests of the Amazon basin and other areas in Central and South America for thousands of years
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Brazil Losing Forest The Size Of Two Football Fields Per Minute
Latin America's largest country is still losing tropical forests the size of two football fields every minute, despite attempts to tackle illegal logging and improve local land rights, a former head of Brazil's forestry service has said.
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Endangered Monkey-Eating Eagle Hatched In Philippines
A monkey-eating eagle has been hatched in captivity in the Philippines, boosting the critically-endangered giant bird's fight against extinction.
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Forest Paradise Re-Emerges in Philippine Capital
A tropical rainforest has regrown against all odds on the edge of the Philippine capital's biggest open-air dump, and is now a patch of green paradise in a sprawling metropolis blighted by giant slums.
