Damaged Amazon rainforest teetering on the brink
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Environment
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News tagged with environmental destruction
US firms fund deforestation, abuses in Amazon: report
Major US financial firms are helping fund environmental destruction and indigenous rights abuses in the Amazon with billions of dollars in investments in questionable companies, according to a report published Tuesday.
Environment
Oct 27, 2020
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Criminal recycling scams 'profit from plastic waste surge'
Criminal networks are profiting from an "overwhelming" surge in plastic waste being shipped from rich countries to Asia and stoking pollution by burning and dumping waste that was supposed to be recycled, a report by Interpol ...
Environment
Aug 27, 2020
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Ecosystem degradation could raise risk of pandemics
Environmental destruction may make pandemics more likely and less manageable, new research suggests.
Ecology
Jun 29, 2020
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Most laws ignore human-wildlife conflict—this makes us vulnerable to pandemics
Never before have we seen how the human use of wildlife can yield such catastrophe, as we have with COVID-19.
Plants & Animals
Apr 9, 2020
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2 Aussie wildfires merge into inferno; man seriously burned
Two wildfires merged to form a massive inferno in southeastern Australia and a man suffered serious burns protecting a home, in a night of treacherous conditions during the nation's unprecedented wildfire crisis, officials ...
Environment
Jan 11, 2020
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Are the Amazon fires a crime against humanity?
Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have jumped 84% during President Jair Bolsonaro's first year in office and in July 2019 alone, an area of rainforest the size of Manhattan was lost every day. The Amazon fires may seem beyond ...
Environment
Sep 17, 2019
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How to stop climate change: six ways to make the world a better place
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greta Thunberg claims we need system change to save the planet, and the majority of experts, from the IPCC, through to our own research, would certainly agree with this.
Environment
May 1, 2019
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Study says attacks on infrastructure in Gaza and West Bank exact a human cost
Israel's targeting of agricultural, water and energy infrastructures in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has had dire impacts on human welfare and livelihoods in both locations, a new report by researchers at Duke University ...
Social Sciences
Feb 19, 2019
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Receding Malawi lake lays bare cost of climate change
Just four months ago, the fishing harbour at Kachulu on the western shores of Lake Chilwa in Malawi was bustling with fishermen and traders haggling over the catch of the day.
Environment
Nov 27, 2018
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