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"Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure"
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"Brazil greenlights oil drilling in Amazon as environmentalists raise alarm"
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"Why Amazon trees are growing bigger — and what it means for the planet"
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Why Amazon trees are growing bigger — and what it means for the planet | The Optimist Daily
A new study reveals Amazon trees are growing larger due to rising CO2. Learn what this surprising trend means for climate resilience.

"Brazil Records 65 Percent Drop in Amazon Area Burned by Fire, Lowest Since Monitoring Began"
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Brazil Records 65 Percent Drop in Amazon Area Burned by Fire, Lowest Since Monitoring Began
The data also shows that across Brazil, both in the Amazon basin and beyond it, 54% fewer acres of landscape have been burned by fires. 

"Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires"
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Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires
In 2024, the Amazon Rainforest underwent its most devastating forest fire season in more than two decades. According to a new study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the fire-driven forest degradation released an estimated 791 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2024, a sevenfold increase compared with the previous two years. The […]

"Indigenous women in Peru use technology to protect Amazon forests"
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Indigenous women in Peru use technology to protect Amazon forests
In 2017, when Betty Rubio began patrolling the forests of her ancestral land, she began to question why she was doing it. It wasn’t easy. She knew that tackling environmental crimes such as illegal logging and mining came with risks, and that as a woman, those risks were even greater. “My children would say to […]

"The Amazon has lost an area larger than Spain in 40 years, report shows"
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The Amazon has lost an area larger than Spain in 40 years, report shows
Some 52 million hectares of natural land have been lost in the Brazilian Amazon region since 1985—an area larger than Spain.

"The Amazon Rainforest Approaches a Point of No Return"
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The Amazon Rainforest Approaches a Point of No Return
In “Amazon Tipping Point” — Third-Place Winner of the 2025 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Brazilian filmmakers capture striking images of clear-cutting and explore how human activity is so damaging the world’s largest rainforest that it will not be able to recover.