Large areas of rainforest degraded or destroyed due to human activity and climate breakdown - leading to carbon loss.
… Brazilian Amazon 'releasing carbon' Brendan Montague | … - leading to carbon loss. The Brazilian Amazon rainforest released more carbon than it … loss. Degradation More than 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil, and the new …
The Formula One world champion warns “our home is burning” in the Time’s Running Out film.
… short film calling for the protection of the Amazon rainforest. Titled Time’s Running Out, … and indigenous people. Fire outbreaks in the Amazon for the first two weeks of September … described recent fires in the Brazilian Amazon as “heart-breaking”. He added: “They’re …
Beef imported to the UK drives human rights abuses and environmental destruction. The soy to feed British beef is doing the same thing.
… Breakdown Biodiversity Loss Food And Farming Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Beef imported … consumers is fuelling the fires of in the Amazon and putting nature and its life support … 2,248 fire outbreaks were detected in the Amazon in June, the highest number for 13 …
Extreme events combined with rising stress levels are increasing the likelihood of ecosystem collapse, say scientists.
… (IPCC) estimate for a tipping point in the Amazon Forest prior to 2100. The new study … For example, it is well known that the Amazon Forest is threatened by deforestation. … add to this stress. This may decrease the Amazon’s ability to generate its own rainfall, …
Earth’s vital signs worsen amid business-as-usual mindset on climate change.
… system, including warm-water coral reefs, the Amazon rainforest and the West Antarctic and … concentration ever recorded. Brazilian Amazon annual forest loss rates increased in …
The risk of dangerous, cascading tipping points in natural systems escalates above 1.5°C of global warming, states a recent study.
… ice sheets, in permafrost regions, the Amazon rainforest, and potentially the … earth system, such as Antarctica and the Amazon rainforest, and a further seven systems …
An interview with Andrew Higham, chief executive of Mission 2020.
… recent photographs of what’s happening in the Amazon are really making everyone aware of how … speaking as images of fires raging across the Amazon make headlines globally, and just after …
Thousands of miles of coastlines are contaminated with oil spills. Rain forests burn. What if those responsible faced jail time?
… such as beef products from the deforested Amazon or palm oil and soy-bean that are … to counter the terrible destruction of the Amazon and the genocide of its people? It may …
Increased pain, respiratory problems, malnutrition: climate change is impacting on our bodies.
… pale in comparison to the destruction of the Amazon. Farmers, desperate to feed their … have debunked the statistic that the Amazon rainforest creates 20 percent of the …
Professor Herbert Girardet today launches a major new series of essays - Megamorphosis - exclusively with The Ecologist.
… Amazonia ablaze Brendan Montague | 19th August … The Ecologist Deforestation Megamorphosis Amazon Climate Breakdown Editor’s Picks … and are creating, profound crises. Download Amazonia Ablaze as a PDF. The scale of the …
Climate breakdown is driven by industrial production, production by machines controlled by people. But can those very people demand a new, low carbon production?
… militancy”. Hurtful Allowing Walmart or Amazon to “swallow the globe” would entrench …
If controlled by corporations, digital farming initiatives create new poverty traps for small food producers while promoting environmental-destructive intensive agricultural practices.
… from the tech scene such as Microsoft and Amazon appeared in the food industry to give a …
We thought climate catastrophe the main danger. Now we know there is another. A double-whammy ecological crisis threatens collapse into dystopian chaos.
… of methane gas; rapid deforestation of the Amazon; and failure of the Atlantic Gulf …
Review of 'The Price is Wrong: why capitalism won’t save the planet' by Brett Christophers.
… generated electricity from big tech. Amazon is the world’s biggest buyer of solar … than other 'market forces'. Amazon and the rest are sharply increasing …