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# Amazon Rainforest

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2022
# Amazon Rainforest
'Brazil is back': President-elect Lula vows to fight deforestation at COP27
Lula has offered to host UN climate talks in the Amazon region in 2025.
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Nov 16th 2022, 10:14 PM
# deforestation
Brazil sets new Amazon deforestation record for October ahead of government change
Under outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro, average annual deforestation increased 75% compared to the previous decade.
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Nov 11th 2022, 8:20 PM
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Saoirse McHugh: How Ireland can help in fighting the Amazon rainforest fires
Giving money to Brazil may not be the solution, but there are ways to make a difference.
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Sep 1st 2019, 8:30 PM
# blazes
Brazil's Bolsonaro open to €18 million G7 offer if Macron 'withdraws insults'
Macron and Bolsonaro have been engaged in a diplomatic spat in recent days.
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Aug 27th 2019, 10:16 PM
# amazon fires
'Ireland has beef with Bolsonaro' - Extinction Rebellion protest enters lobby at Dublin's Brazilian Embassy
A demonstration is ongoing this afternoon.
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Aug 23rd 2019, 2:35 PM
# Amazon Rainforest
Record number of Amazon wildfires lit on purpose, claims president of Brazil
Nearly 73,000 forest fires have been reported in the country so far this year.
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Aug 21st 2019, 7:08 PM
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Opinion: Deforestation isn't just changing our climate, it could be destroying life-saving medicines
The impact on the local biodiversity in the deforested areas is detrimental and potentially irreversible.
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Sep 4th 2014, 8:00 AM
# pr power
UPDATE: Paddy Power did not cut down a single Amazonian tree
But it wasn’t Photoshopped either…
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Jun 8th 2014, 12:30 PM
# Ecuador
Court upholds ruling that Chevron must pay $18bn for Amazon pollution
The lawsuit sought damages on behalf of 30,000 people for environmental contamination and illnesses that allegedly resulted from operations in the Amazon rain forest over an 18-year period.
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Jan 4th 2012, 10:04 AM
# Rainforest
A decade of discovery:1,200 new species found in Amazon rainforest
In Pictures: An amazing array of new species that have been uncovered in the Amazon rainforest.
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Oct 28th 2010, 7:23 AM
# Amazon Rainforest
British man walks length of the Amazon
Ed Stafford has walked for a record breaking 859 days along the entire length of the Amazon River.
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Aug 10th 2010, 7:50 AM