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Earth lost forests the size of a football field every five seconds in 2022, 10% more than the previous year
Recent analysis of satellite data revealed that Earth lost more than 41,000 square kilometres of ra…
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Hiking Through Peru Showed One Journalist The True Dangers Of Climate Change
"We are going to lose our coastlines. We are going to lose the ice caps," Catanoso said. "It's not …
Jennifer Welsh
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Hiking Through Peru Showed One Journalist The True Dangers Of Climate Change
"We are going to lose our coastlines. We are going to lose the ice caps," Catanoso said. "It's not …
Jennifer Welsh
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Striking photos show the devastation wreaked by record-breaking fires in the Amazon rainforest
As the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon plays a crucial role in keeping our planet's carbon-d…
Joey Hadden,Aylin Woodward
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The Amazon rainforest is about to cross an irreversible threshold that will turn it into a savanna, top scientists say
The warming climate also increases the likelihood that this dieback tipping point could be crossed,…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Amazon Rainforest is burning. Here's why there are so many fires and what it all means for the planet.
Scientists also fear that over time, the Amazon could suffer so much deforestation that a feedback …
Aylin Woodward
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This tree-planting search engine saw a 1150% increase in downloads after the Amazon rainforest fires
Originally a business student with an interest in tinkering with computers, he turned into an envir…
Shona Ghosh
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The blazes in the Amazon are so big they can be seen from space. One map shows the alarming scale of the fires.
This week of fires comes on the heels of another worrisome milestone for the world's largest rainfo…
Aylin Woodward
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Amazon fires created a smoke eclipse in the skies above Brazil's largest city, 2,000 miles away
This isn't the first time the Amazon has experienced thousands of fires simultaneously. Typically, …
Aylin Woodward
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Everything we know about Amazon's HQ2 development in Long Island City, Queens
Starting next year, Citigroup will begin moving 1,100 employees out of the office tower, freeing up…
Aria Bendix
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The Amazon fires aren't a natural disaster. 'Bolsonaro has created the perfect conditions for this perfect storm,' one researcher said.
"There are people, especially among the 20 million people who live in the Amazon, who think: 'Envir…
Aylin Woodward
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The Amazon is burning at a rate not seen since we started keeping track. The smoke is reaching cities 2,000 miles away.
As the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon plays a crucial role in keeping our planet's carbon-d…
Aylin Woodward
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99% of the fires in the Amazon rainforest were started by humans, one expert says - here's why they've gotten so out of control
As the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon plays a crucial role in keeping our planet's carbon-d…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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Nestle sailed Amazon rivers to sell its candy and chocolate pudding to the backwoods of Brazil
Faced with pressures to grow sales, big food companies - from Nestlé to Unilever to General Mills -…
Leanna Garfield
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Brazil has seen 100,000 fire alerts in 10 days, but it's not just the Amazon - one map shows how much of South America is burning
As the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon plays a crucial role in keeping our planet's carbon-d…
Aylin Woodward
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New Yorkers are making lots of doomsday predictions about Amazon's HQ2. Here are all the things that could make it a disaster.
Ahead of Amazon's arrival, residents have complained of overcrowded schools, bottle-necked subways,…
Aria Bendix
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Amazon's HQ2 site in Long Island City, Queens could be flooded in the next 30 years - here's what scientists predict for the headquarters
Under the most extreme projections of sea level rise, the researchers find a 100% likelihood that Q…
Aria Bendix
3 mins read
The Amazon rainforest might catch fire this summer - here's why that could be devastating
So, a massive Amazonian wildfire could potentially release huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the …
Simone M. Scully
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Apple, Amazon, Google, and hundreds of businesses vowed to meet Paris climate goals on their own 'in the absence of leadership from Washington'
"It is imperative that the world know that in the U.S., the actors that will provide the leadership…