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# Rainforest

Last month
August 2023
# Amazon Rainforest
Amazon Summit ends with roadmap to protect rainforest but no concrete plan to end deforestation
Leaders from eight Amazon nations signed a declaration that set out plans to drive economic development while preventing the rainforest’s demise.
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Aug 10th 2023, 8:55 AM
Last year
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
# dom phillips
Murdered UK journalist laid to rest in Brazil
Dom Phillips was killed in the Amazon while researching a book about how to save the world’s largest rainforest.
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Jun 27th 2022, 8:31 AM
# Brazil
British journalist and Brazilian indigenous expert missing in remote part of Amazon
Two people have been arrested in connection with their disappearance.
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Jun 7th 2022, 12:57 PM
All time
# Amazon
Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest hit new record in October
An area more than half the size of the city of Rio de Janeiro of Amazon’s lush rainforest was cleared.
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Nov 12th 2021, 9:40 PM
# CLIMATE CRISIS
Rainforest area equivalent in size to the Netherlands burnt or cut down during 2020
The biggest losses were in Brazil, three times more than in the next highest country.
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Mar 31st 2021, 7:11 AM
# Brazil
Bolsonaro says it's a 'lie' that fires are ravaging the Amazon
Data from his own government shows the number of blazes in the rainforest is rising.
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Aug 12th 2020, 10:45 AM
# Brazil
Amazon deforestation at highest level since 2008
It follows a series of major fires in the region earlier this year.
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Nov 18th 2019, 10:47 PM
# Climate Change
Tens of thousands of fires are burning in the Amazon - here's what you need to know
There is huge concern about the local, national and international impact of the fires.
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Aug 28th 2019, 6:00 PM
# Awa tribe
Rare footage shows uncontacted Amazon tribe who activists say are threatened by loggers
Since taking office, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of harming the Amazon rainforest.
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Jul 23rd 2019, 10:29 PM
# Renca reserve
Plans to allow mining in the Amazon rainforest have been halted
Brazilian President Michel Temer had signed a decree to allow the reserve to be opened up for private use.
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Sep 1st 2017, 11:38 AM
Voices
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
# Research
TCD among research group awarded €3m for anti-inflammatory project
The project will investigate the use of plants from the Amazon rainforest on immune processes.
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Feb 1st 2012, 7:15 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Coalition at odds over Sunday pay; Brazil does away with rainforest protection laws and Carla’s staying mum on pregnancy rumours – but the pictures speak louder than words.
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May 27th 2011, 8:24 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