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Lula and Petro have the chance of a lifetime to save the Amazon. Can they unite idealism and realpolitik to pull it off?

The South American leaders are in the spotlight as they prepare to host this week’s Cop16 biodiversity summit, November’s G20 meeting and next year’s Cop30 climate summit

The Guardian - UK

‘We need to connect, not conquer’: Lucy Shepherd on surviving jungle wilderness – and redefining the explorer

Following her epic 50-day trek through the Amazon rainforest in Guyana, explorer Lucy Shepherd speaks to Annabel Grossman about her most challenging moments in the wilderness and the need to protect these fragile ecosystems

The Independent UK

Wildlife populations decline 73 percent over past half-century, report says

World Wildlife Fund says species like pink river dolphins of the Amazon, forest elephants in Gabon are in sharp decline.

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I have planted thousands of perennials and shrubs as a professional gardener – and biochar is the secret ingredient I always recommend

Biochar is a helpful and long-lasting soil additive, with impressive results, and you can grab it now in the Amazon sale

Homes & Gardens

Drought has dried an Amazon River tributary to its lowest level in 122 years

Brazil's geological service says that one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level in 122 years, reflecting a severe drought that has devastated the Amazon rainforest and other parts of the country

The Independent UK

‘The Earth is crying out for help’: as fires decimate South America, smoke shrouds its skies

Huge tracts of land have burned from largely man-made blazes in Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Brazil and other countries, with people suffocating from its fallout

The Guardian - US

Brazil’s ‘Paradise’ on fire: ‘The forest is burning. Animals are burning. Everything’s burning’

Along the Madeira river basin, in the Amazon, locals blame climate change and human greed for the wildfires

The Guardian - UK

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Why South America Is Burning

A record wave of wildfires, fueled by severe drought linked to climate change and deforestation, is causing havoc across South America.

International Business Times

Dramatic images show drought's toll on Amazon and its rivers

Drought is devastating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and some rivers are falling to historic lows. Images of one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries, the Negro River, show just how dramatically water is dwindling.

The Independent UK

Earth’s 'second lung' is under threat. Losing the Congo Basin forests would set the fight against climate change back 20 years

Earth’s second great rainforest has been largely neglected.

Fortune

Brazil's Lula to talk climate at U.N., but Amazon fires back home undermine his message

When Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opens the United Nations’ General Assembly on Tuesday, he is expected to call on the world to do more to combat climate change

The Independent UK

Amazon Forest Loses Area The Size Of Germany And France, Fueling Fires

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, fueling drought and record wildfires across South America, experts said Monday.

International Business Times

Amazon Forest Has Lost An Area The Size Of Germany And France

The world's biggest rainforest, the Amazon, has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, a study showed Monday.

International Business Times

The Invention of the Other review – fascinating first glimpse of uncontacted Amazon tribe

Bruno Jorge’s quietly observed film has an added poignance as the leader of the expedition to immunise one of Brazil’s isolated tribes is murdered activist Bruno Pereira

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Colombia's Inirida Flower: From 'Weed' To Emblem For UN Meeting

When Ruben Dario Carianil began cultivating the unusual, pointy Inirida flower in the Colombian Amazon ten years ago, his relatives made fun of him for growing "weeds."

The Guardian - US

‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them

Firefighters and police in Rondônia battle fires intensified by both the climate crisis and a criminal assault on the rainforest

LiveScience

Record-breaking fires engulf South America, bringing black rain, green rivers and toxic air to the continent

The Amazon fires, fueled by severe drought exacerbated by climate change, have created a toxic smoke cloud spanning about 4 million square miles — an area larger than the entire United States.

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Brazil Court Dismisses Charges In Amazon Killings Case

Federal court in Brazil dismisses charges against one suspect in the killings of Indigenous peoples expert and journalist in the Amazon, sparking internati...

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The Independent UK

Brazil court drops a suspect in Amazon slayings of a British journalist and an Indigenous advocate

A federal court in Brazil has dismissed charges against one of three men arrested in the killings of an Indigenous peoples expert and a British journalist in the Amazon, ruling there wasn’t sufficient evidence to try him

The Independent UK

Takeaways from AP's story on the Ashaninka tribe's reforestation model in the Brazilian Amazon

The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers more than 30 years ago

The Independent UK

In the Amazon, the Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now, they aim to change the region

The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers 30 years ago

The Independent UK

CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Wildfires plague U.S. West and Brazil, Yagi rampages in Vietnam

Extreme weather is again striking multiple places around the world, including wildfires in California, a hurricane that threatens Louisiana, drought and wildfires in the Amazon and flooding in Nigeria

The Independent UK

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

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pledging to finish paving a roadway in the heart of the Amazon that experts and some in his own government say could worsen deforestation

The Guardian - UK

Brazilian president flies into Amazon amid alarm over droughts and wildfires

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says Amazonia suffering its worst drought in more than 40 years

The Independent UK

Severe drought drops water level to historic low on the Paraguay River, a regional lifeline

A powerful drought in the Amazon rainforest has led to the lowest water levels on the Paraguay River in more than a century, disrupting commerce on the major waterway, creating hazards for local transport and offering a grim warning for other parts of the world

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