Brazil’s Amazon deforestation soars to 12-year high
4 years ago

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation soars to 12-year high

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Brazil's Amazon rainforest has been decimated by deforestation in 2020, soaring to a 12-year high, official data revealed on Monday. This year, destruction of the world's largest rainforest rose 9.5 per cent from 2019, to 11,088 square kilometers, according to data from Brazil's national space research agency, INPE. "Because of the government’s anti-environmental policies, deforestation in Brazil is almost three times higher than the target for 2020 set by the country’s National Policy on Climate Change.” In September, INPE scientists revealed that official data had been miscalculated and the number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon had increased from 2019, putting them at the highest level in a decade. Mr Bolsonaro, a climate denier, insisted this summer that there were no fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling evidence produced by his own government showing thousands of blazes a “lie”.

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Agribusiness-friendly states in Brazil try to undo forest protections
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Agribusiness-friendly states in Brazil try to undo forest protections

Associated Press  

BRASILIA, Brazil — Several states in Brazil are trying to rid themselves of rainforest protections, bowing to pressure from cattle ranchers and soybean growers to cut down trees and expand agriculture. The efforts to reduce deforestation remain highly fragile in some regions,” said Alice Thuault, executive director of Instituto Centro de Vida, an environmental nonprofit based in Mato Grosso state. …

A new incentive paradigm could help preserve the world’s forests
4 weeks, 1 day ago

A new incentive paradigm could help preserve the world’s forests

Live Mint  

With this year’s global summits on biodiversity and climate change done and the one on desertification fast approaching, the consequences of the climate emergency are evident everywhere. The World Bank Group is also working to turn the vast potential of carbon markets into an income stream for developing countries that are committed to reducing emissions and conserving their forests. One …

From the Amazon rainforest, Biden declares nobody can reverse US progress on clean energy
1 month ago

From the Amazon rainforest, Biden declares nobody can reverse US progress on clean energy

Associated Press  

MANAUS, Brazil — Speaking from the Amazon rainforest, President Joe Biden declared Sunday that there’s no going back in America’s “clean energy revolution” even as the incoming Trump administration vows to spur fossil fuel production and scale back efforts against climate change. But he’s about to hand off to Republican President-elect Donald Trump, who is highly unlikely to prioritize the …

Brazil's Amazon posts lowest deforestation in nine years: govt
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Brazil's Amazon posts lowest deforestation in nine years: govt

Raw Story  

The Brazilian Amazon experienced its smallest amount of yearly deforestation in nearly a decade, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government reported Wednesday, in line with its promise to combat forest loss. During that time, 6,288 square kilometers of forest were destroyed, which INPE Director Gilvan Oliveira said was "the lowest result in the last nine years." Environment Minister Marina …

More than 420,000 children affected by record drought in Amazon: UN
1 month, 2 weeks ago

More than 420,000 children affected by record drought in Amazon: UN

Al Jazeera  

UNICEF chief urges leaders at the upcoming COP29 summit in Azerbaijan to increase climate financing for children. The record-breaking drought, ongoing since last year, is taking a toll on Indigenous and other communities in Brazil, Colombia and Peru reliant on boat connections, the UN Children’s Fund said ahead of the COP29 climate change summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. The health of …

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to previous year
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to previous year

Associated Press  

AGUA CLARA, Brazil — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. The results, announced in Brazil´s presidential palace, sharply contrast with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s predecessor, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, who prioritized agribusiness expansion over forest protection and weakened environmental agencies. …

G20 environment ministers back funding for forest conservation
2 months, 2 weeks ago

G20 environment ministers back funding for forest conservation

The Independent  

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Brazil’s Lula pledges to finish paving road that experts say could worsen Amazon deforestation
3 months, 1 week ago

Brazil’s Lula pledges to finish paving road that experts say could worsen Amazon deforestation

LA Times  

In a visit to see the damage caused by drought and fire in the Amazon, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pledged to pave a road that environmentalists and some in his own government say threatens to vastly increase destruction of the world’s largest tropical forest — and contribute to climate change. A permit for the longer stretch was …

Amid the worst drought in Brazil history, wildfires rage and the Amazon falls to a record low level
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Amid the worst drought in Brazil history, wildfires rage and the Amazon falls to a record low level

The Independent  

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Brazilian heat waves fueled by climate change are flaming the rainforest at highest rate in 14 years
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Brazilian heat waves fueled by climate change are flaming the rainforest at highest rate in 14 years

Salon  

Days after Brazilians sweltered under scorching heat, panted through a parching drought and choked from wildfire smoke, scientists anticipate temperatures in Brazil to linger between 35º C and 40º C all week — equivalent to 95º F to 104º F. The temperatures are expected to reach these blistering heights primarily in the Central West region, which includes large cities like …

People in Brazil’s Amazon are choking on smoke and feeling the heat from rainforest wildfires
3 months, 3 weeks ago

People in Brazil’s Amazon are choking on smoke and feeling the heat from rainforest wildfires

The Independent  

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Amazon rainforest stores carbon for the world, but this carbon sink is at risk, a study finds
4 months, 1 week ago

Amazon rainforest stores carbon for the world, but this carbon sink is at risk, a study finds

The Independent  

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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest dips to lowest level in 8 years
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest dips to lowest level in 8 years

India Today  

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. In the past 12 months, the Amazon rainforest lost 4,300 square kilometers of land, roughly the size of Rhode Island. The figures are preliminary and come from the Deter satellite sytem, managed by the National Institute for Space Research, …

Deforestation in Colombia fell to historic lows in 2023, environment minister says
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Deforestation in Colombia fell to historic lows in 2023, environment minister says

Associated Press  

BOGOTA, Colombia — Deforestation in Colombia fell 36% in 2023 versus the previous year, the government said Monday, marking the lowest level since records began. The decline was driven by a drop in environmental destruction in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, including about one-third of it in Colombia, the government of leftist President Gustavo Petro said. We continue to …

Colombia deforestation fell to historic low last year
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Colombia deforestation fell to historic low last year

Al Jazeera  

Drop in deforestation comes amid efforts to protect critical Amazon rainforest after years of record destruction. Deforestation in Colombia fell by 36 percent in 2023 compared to the previous year, the country’s environment ministry said, as President Gustavo Petro’s government works to halt record-breaking destruction in the Amazon. In a statement on Monday, the Environment Ministry said deforestation fell to …

Brazil's Amazon fires off to record 2024 start as green union blames firefighting budget cut
7 months ago

Brazil's Amazon fires off to record 2024 start as green union blames firefighting budget cut

The Hindu  

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has experienced its largest blazes on record in the first four months of the year, with the environmental workers union on Monday placing partial blame on lower government spending on firefighting. A record drought in the Amazon rainforest region, driven by the El Nino climate phenomenon and global warming, has helped contribute to dry conditions fueling fires …

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon down 30% in February
9 months, 1 week ago

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon down 30% in February

The Hindu  

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 30% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government worked toward a pledge to end illegal deforestation by 2030. According to preliminary satellite data from space research agency INPE, 226 square km of the world's largest rainforest were cleared last month. That represented …

A Brazilian state in the Amazon has been hit with more than 2,000 fires in February
9 months, 3 weeks ago

A Brazilian state in the Amazon has been hit with more than 2,000 fires in February

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Brazilian state of Roraima in the Amazon rainforest has been hit with more than 2,000 fires in February, according to data released Thursday by the state space agency. Fires are also burning down forest inside the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, Júnior Hekurari, president of the Yanomami local health council, told The Associated Press. Earlier this month, …

The Amazon has survived changes in the climate for 65 million years. Now it’s heading for collapse, a study says
10 months, 1 week ago

The Amazon has survived changes in the climate for 65 million years. Now it’s heading for collapse, a study says

CNN  

CNN — The Amazon rainforest is on course to reach a crucial tipping point as soon as 2050, with devastating consequences for the region and the world’s ability to tackle climate change, according to a study published Wednesday. The Amazon has proven resilient to natural changes in the climate for 65 million years, but deforestation and the human-caused climate crisis …

Rainforests provide a public good. The world should pay to conserve them
10 months, 1 week ago

Rainforests provide a public good. The world should pay to conserve them

Hindustan Times  

At last, good news from the Brazilian Amazon. And a whopping 29% of the Brazilian Amazon is “undesignated”, meaning it is public land but no one has decided whether it should be a nature reserve, an indigenous reserve, or something else. It is also politically fraught since many state and local politicians are cosy with the farming and wildcat mining …

Climate change drives Amazon rainforest's record drought, study finds
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Climate change drives Amazon rainforest's record drought, study finds

The Hindu  

Climate change is the main culprit for a record drought in the Amazon rainforest that has drained rivers, killed endangered dolphins and upended life for millions of people in the region, according to a study released on Wednesday. The drought that hit all nine Amazon rainforest countries - including Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Peru - is expected to worsen in …

Global warming drove record Amazon rainforest drought, study finds
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Global warming drove record Amazon rainforest drought, study finds

Al Jazeera  

New report says climate change responsible for draining rivers, wreaking havoc on biodiversity and communities. Climate change, and not El Nino, was the primary driver of the unprecedented drought last year in the Amazon rainforest that caused rivers to dry up, required deliveries of essential supplies to river communities and resulted in the deaths of endangered dolphins, scientists have said. …

Deforestation in Brazil’s savanna region surges to highest level since 2019
11 months, 1 week ago

Deforestation in Brazil’s savanna region surges to highest level since 2019

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Deforestation surged in Brazil’s Cerrado, a vast tropical savanna region, by nearly 45% in 2023 compared to 2022, according to full-December data released Friday by the government’s monitoring agency. This is the highest level since 2019, when the agency recorded its first full year of deforestation in the Cerrado, home to more than 800 species of …

Home countries of major rainforests agree to work together to save them
1 year, 1 month ago

Home countries of major rainforests agree to work together to save them

The Hindu  

Countries that are home to the world's three major rainforests agreed on Saturday to cooperate to overcome deforestation and safeguard biodiversity but fell short of a concrete alliance to protect the vital carbon sinks. "We've realised that joining forces is an absolute necessity, and we've recognised that the initiative to unite the three basins is part of an inevitable dynamic," …

In the Amazon, millions breathe hazardous air as drought and wildfires spread through the rainforest
1 year, 2 months ago

In the Amazon, millions breathe hazardous air as drought and wildfires spread through the rainforest

The Hindu  

Thick smoke has enveloped extensive areas of the Brazilian Amazon on Thursday as the region grapples with a surge in wildfires and a historic drought. In Manaus, a city of 2 million, air quality ranked among the worst globally, leading to the suspension of college classes and the cancellation of various activities, including an international marathon. The city’s air quality …

Amazon's Indigenous people urge Brazil to declare climate emergency as rivers dry up
1 year, 2 months ago

Amazon's Indigenous people urge Brazil to declare climate emergency as rivers dry up

The Hindu  

Indigenous inhabitants in the Amazon are asking the Brazilian government to declare a climate emergency as their villages have no drinking water, food or medicine due to a severe drought that is drying up rivers vital for travel in the rainforest, their leaders said on Tuesday. The drought and heatwave has killed masses of fish in the rivers that Indigenous …

‘Without water, there is no life’: Drought in Brazil’s Amazon is sharpening fears for the future
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Without water, there is no life’: Drought in Brazil’s Amazon is sharpening fears for the future

Associated Press  

MANAUS, Brazil — Communities dependent on the Amazon rainforest’s waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Without water, there is no life.” Raimundo Silva do Carmo, 67, shows the water he obtained from a well dug in the dry bed of Puraquequara Lake amid a severe drought, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Oct. 5, 2023. Floating …

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people
1 year, 2 months ago

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is facing a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people by the end of the year, authorities said Tuesday. Authorities will also distribute food and water supplies as well as personal hygiene kits, the state’s civil defense agency said in a statement. According to the port of Manaus, which monitors …

Brazil slows Amazon deforestation, but in Chico Mendes’ homeland, it risks being too late
1 year, 2 months ago

Brazil slows Amazon deforestation, but in Chico Mendes’ homeland, it risks being too late

Associated Press  

BRASILIA, Brazil — Luzineide Marques da Silva knows the location of each of the 748 rubber trees scattered in her area of the Brazilian Amazon, where she and her family hold rights to tap the trees for latex to sell to a sneaker manufacturer. But progress has been uneven, and in the symbolic Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, it could be …

In the battle against Amazon deforestation, Brazil offers cash rewards to municipalities
1 year, 3 months ago

In the battle against Amazon deforestation, Brazil offers cash rewards to municipalities

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — In a bid to slow deforestation in the Amazon, Brazil announced Tuesday that it will provide financial support to municipalities that have reduced deforestation rates the most. During the country´s Amazon Day, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva also signed the creation of two Indigenous territories that total 207,000 hectares — over two times the size …

Lula’s ambitious plans to save the Amazon clash with reality
1 year, 3 months ago

Lula’s ambitious plans to save the Amazon clash with reality

Hindustan Times  

When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil ’s election last year, climate activists the world over breathed a sigh of relief. Alexandre Silveira, the energy and mining minister, described oil exploration in the region as a “passport to the future”, and called the regulator’s demands “incoherent and absurd”. Lula said he finds it “difficult” to believe that oil exploration …

Amazon forest carbon emissions skyrocketed under Bolsonaro, study shows
1 year, 3 months ago

Amazon forest carbon emissions skyrocketed under Bolsonaro, study shows

The Hindu  

Brazilian space research centre INPE said on Wednesday that carbon emissions in the Amazon forest soared in 2019 and 2020 compared to the previous decade due to poor enforcement of environmental protection policies. The forest's carbon emissions amounted to 0.44 billion metric tons in 2019 and 0.52 billion metric tons in 2020, compared to an annual average of 0.24 billion …

Amazon rainforest | The scramble to save the planet’s lungs
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon rainforest | The scramble to save the planet’s lungs

The Hindu  

On August 9, executive leaders and Ministers from Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French Guiana met with a Brazilian delegation — all of whom are part of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization — in Belem do Para, Brazil. Yearly deforestation According to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, the total deforestation of the Amazon rainforest from August …

Brazil's Amazon Summit ends with a plan to protect the world's rainforests, but no measurable goals
1 year, 4 months ago

Brazil's Amazon Summit ends with a plan to protect the world's rainforests, but no measurable goals

The Hindu  

Brazil’s Amazon Summit closed on August 9 with a roadmap to protect tropical rainforests that was welcomed as an important step in countering climate change, but without the concrete commitments sought by some environmentalists to end deforestation. Leaders and Ministers from eight Amazon nations signed a declaration on August 8 in Belem, Brazil, that laid out plans to drive economic …

CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Here’s what you need to see and know today
1 year, 4 months ago

CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Here’s what you need to see and know today

Associated Press  

Leaders and ministers of eight nations that span the Amazon rainforest are meeting in Brazil to chart a course for the protection of a region that’s crucial to countering climate change. Evidence of that climate change has been scattered across the globe this year, ranging from crushing heat to costly droughts and devastating flooding. —Tuesday was the first time since …

Brazil’s Amazon Summit ends with a plan to protect the world’s rainforests, but no measurable goals
1 year, 4 months ago

Brazil’s Amazon Summit ends with a plan to protect the world’s rainforests, but no measurable goals

Associated Press  

BELEM, Brazil — Brazil’s Amazon Summit closed Wednesday with a roadmap to protect tropical rainforests that was welcomed as an important step in countering climate change, but without the concrete commitments sought by some environmentalists to end deforestation. Leaders and ministers from eight Amazon nations signed a declaration Tuesday in Belem, Brazil, that laid out plans to drive economic development …

The murders of Indigenous activists mark the death of the planet
1 year, 4 months ago

The murders of Indigenous activists mark the death of the planet

Al Jazeera  

Amid capitalism’s war on the environment and its defenders, we need Indigenous communities more than ever. In the Philippines, for example – another territory that incidentally endured centuries of pillage and other shenanigans by Europe and the United States – Global Witness found that, of the 270 land defenders killed between 2012 and 2021, more than 40 percent were Indigenous. …

Amazon summit calls on developed nations to fulfil climate funding deals
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon summit calls on developed nations to fulfil climate funding deals

Al Jazeera  

Twelve countries have called on wealthy nations to meet their climate funding obligations on the final day of the Amazon Summit in Belem, Brazil. Wednesday’s pact, called “United for Our Forests”, brought together leaders from the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia, three regions with some of the most extensive rainforests in the world. Speaking on Wednesday, Brazilian President …

Amazon nations fail to agree on a common goal to end deforestation
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon nations fail to agree on a common goal to end deforestation

CNN  

CNN — Eight South American countries failed to agree on a common goal to save the critically vulnerable Amazon from deforestation following a landmark summit in Brazil Tuesday, a concerning outcome as the world’s largest rainforest acts as a key buffer against the climate crisis. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased rapidly under Lula da Silva’s predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, and …

Amazon nations launch alliance to protect rainforest at key summit
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon nations launch alliance to protect rainforest at key summit

Al Jazeera  

Eight South American countries have agreed to launch an alliance to protect the Amazon, pledging at a summit in Brazil to stop the world’s biggest rainforest from reaching “a point of no return”. The closely-watched summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization adopted on Tuesday what host country Brazil called a “new and ambitious shared agenda” to save the rainforest, …

What did Amazon nations agree upon at the summit in Brazil?
1 year, 4 months ago

What did Amazon nations agree upon at the summit in Brazil?

Al Jazeera  

Nations gathered in Belem agree to a list of environmental policies but fall short on deforestation and oil. The declaration additionally established a science body to meet annually and produce authoritative reports on science related to the Amazon rainforest, akin to the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change. But the summit stopped short of environmentalists’ and Indigenous groups’ boldest …

Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change, urge developed world to help protect rainforest
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change, urge developed world to help protect rainforest

Associated Press  

BELEM, Brazil — Leaders from South American nations that are home to the Amazon challenged developed countries on Tuesday to do more to stop massive destruction of the world’s largest rainforest, a task they said can’t fall to just a few when the crisis has been caused by so many. The calls from the presidents of nations including Brazil, Colombia …

Brazil hosts ‘landmark’ Amazon summit: What you need to know
1 year, 4 months ago

Brazil hosts ‘landmark’ Amazon summit: What you need to know

Al Jazeera  

Leaders are gathering in Brazil to discuss ways to protect critical rainforest after years of deforestation and threats. The leaders of eight Amazon rainforest nations are meeting in Brazil to tackle pressing challenges facing the critical ecosystem, in what Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has dubbed a “landmark” gathering. It must be done very, very quickly.” Meanwhile, Brazil’s …

Governments are gathering to talk about the Amazon rainforest. Why is it so important to protect?
1 year, 4 months ago

Governments are gathering to talk about the Amazon rainforest. Why is it so important to protect?

Associated Press  

COULD DEFORESTATION REACH A ‘TIPPING POINT’? That kind of change is already happening in Xingu Indigenous Territory, in Brazil’s southern Amazon, which has become an island surrounded by soybeans and pasture and where researchers have highlighted forest degradation due to persistent droughts, fires and agricultural practices. Researcher David Lapola, who is part of a project that investigates how the Amazon …

Lula to host South American summit on saving the Amazon
1 year, 4 months ago

Lula to host South American summit on saving the Amazon

The Hindu  

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will host a regional summit next week with planetary stakes, as leaders of the countries that share the Amazon seek a roadmap to save the world’s biggest rainforest. It is the 28-year-old organization’s first summit since 2009, as Lula seeks to deliver on his pledge that “Brazil is back” in the fight against …

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon falls 66 percent in July
1 year, 4 months ago

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon falls 66 percent in July

Al Jazeera  

Figures come as Brazil prepares to host summit with leaders of Amazonian countries to discuss ways to protect the rainforest. Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon fell in July to its lowest level for the month since 2017, according to preliminary government figures. Satellite data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research on Thursday indicated that 500 square kilometres of rainforest were …

Could Indigenous communities in Brazil hold key to climate justice?
1 year, 4 months ago

Could Indigenous communities in Brazil hold key to climate justice?

Al Jazeera  

Across the Amazon, Indigenous residents are developing sustainable economies centred on local production. As tradition dictates, residents of the Willimon community in the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous territory of Brazil’s Roraima state are coming together to help fellow farmers plough their land. “I have a big family, and the salary I receive for my work is mostly used for …

Deforestation in Colombia dropped by 29 percent, a milestone
1 year, 5 months ago

Deforestation in Colombia dropped by 29 percent, a milestone

Al Jazeera  

Deforestation in the Amazon has dropped in both Brazil and Colombia as elected leaders pledge to prioritise environment. Deforestation in Colombia dropped by 29 percent in 2022, falling to the lowest level in nearly 10 years, according to newly released government statistics. The figures, published on Wednesday, show particular gains in regions of the Amazon rainforest, considered an important “carbon …

In Lula’s first 6 months, Amazon destruction has dropped 34%, reversing trend under Bolsonaro
1 year, 5 months ago

In Lula’s first 6 months, Amazon destruction has dropped 34%, reversing trend under Bolsonaro

LA Times  

After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, according to government satellite data released Thursday. Still, the data are an encouraging sign for Lula, who campaigned last year with pledges to rein in illegal logging and undo the environmental devastation during Bolsonaro’s …

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation drops sharply in first half of 2023
1 year, 5 months ago

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation drops sharply in first half of 2023

Al Jazeera  

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has promised to end destruction of the Amazon rainforest by 2030. Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell 34 percent in the first half of 2023, preliminary government data shows, hitting its lowest level in four years as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva institutes tougher environmental policies. In June alone, satellite data from …

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