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Brazil lawmakers approve using green fund to pave road through Amazon rainforest
Reuters, Joe Lo
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Donations meant to preserve the Amazon rainforest may be spent paving the road, which critics say will worsen the forest’s destruction

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Inside Climate News
View In: Amazon Rain Forest“The first time I heard about carbon credits, I didn’t understand what they were about at all,” says Queila Couto, a lawyer, while staring into the Itacuruçá River in the Brazilian state of Pará, “and it was bad.” Couto is a quilombola, an Afro-Brazilian descendent of escaped slaves, many of whom establishe...

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Brazil to propose mega fund to conserve forests at COP28 climate summit

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Amazon deforestation linked to long distance climate warming
Science X

Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometers away to get warmer, according to a new study. The research, by a team of British and Brazilian scientists, led by Dr. Edward Butt at the University of Leeds, suggests that tropical forests play a critical role in cooling the land surface—and that effect can play out over considerable distances

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Climate crisis | The Guardian
View In: Amazon Rain ForestResearch highlights benefits forests bring surrounding regions in terms of cooler air and more rainfallDeforestation has a far greater impact on regional temperatures than previously believed, according to a new study of the Brazilian Amazon that shows agricultural businesses would be among the bigges...

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Mining threatens 33% of Amazon Basin’s intact forests, report says

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