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Apr
23
Apr
06
Dec
Big, old trees in decline around the world
Trees face challenges from deforestation, invasive insects and climate change.
09
Sep
Are animal-borne diseases on the rise?
Deforestation, climate change and movement of people may be contributing to the rise of the hantavirus, Wile Nile and even the plague.
06
Sep
In the past 40 years, as much as 20 percent of the Amazon rain forest has been cut down. The rain forest produces half of its own precipitation. As the forest is destroyed and burned for industrial purposes, the remaining trees dry out and die. This activity has made Brazil one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters on the planet.
7 ways humans are damaging the planet
Amazonian deforestation may cut rainfall by a fifth
Rainfall across the vast basin could lessen, potentially inflicting costs on farmers and reducing hydro-electricity output from receding river flows.
06
Aug
Satellite photos show Amazon vanishing
Clear-cutting for roads and agriculture has transformed the Amazon rain forest in western Brazil, as a new set of satellite images from NASA illustrates.
13
Jul
As Amazon’s ‘extinction debt’ piles, species will pay the price
Species will continue to go extinct more than 3 decades after deforestation in the Amazon has stopped, if key forest areas are not restored.
22
Jun
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