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All the top green business news from around the world this week, including a new US-Canada electric vehicle corridor, Ireland's first ever offshore wind auction, and a slowdown in Amazon deforestation

This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question about the difference between “woods,” “forests,” and “jungles.”

The value is seven times higher than profits from commodities taken from the rainforest, the report concludes.

Four Indigenous children, including an 11-month-old baby, have been found alive in the dense Colombian Amazon after a plane crash more than two weeks ago, President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday, declaring "joy for the country."

On Monday and Tuesday, soldiers found the bodies of the pilot and two adults who had been flying from a jungle location to San Jose del Guaviare, one of the main cities in Colombias Amazon rainforest.

Four children who went missing for over two weeks after a plane crash in the Amazon jungle, were miraculously found alive.

Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests, which significantly impacts the global carbon cycle and the environment. Forests are critical in regulating the Earths climate.... | May 18, 2023

As ever, theres good and bad bits.

The Amazon lost about 126.92 square miles (326.1 square kilometers) to deforestation in April - a considerable improvement given that the month prior recorded a loss of 175.9 square miles to deforestation.

American soldiers currently in the country for Balikatan exercises were among those who recently enjoyed boat rides in the raging rapids of historic Pagsanjan Falls in Laguna.