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The Amazon region, Earth's most important ecosystem, is home to more than 400 Indigenous groups that use thousands of ...
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In addition, biocultural knowledge is set to decline sharply by 2080 as a result of the loss of Indigenous languages. These are the findings of a new study by the University of Zurich. The Amazon ...
When you think of a South American rainforest, you probably don't imagine biting winds, heavy frosts and freezing ...
From January to June, trees were felled across 1,295 square kilometres (500 square miles) -- an area almost twice the size of ...
The figures come months before Brazil’s presidential election, with Lula promising to end illegal deforestation by 2030.
Satellite data show a 37% deforestation decrease in the world's largest rainforest last year, the lowest level of Amazon destruction since 2014.
Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for ...