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Listen • 6:02 In this aerial image, a fire burns in a section of the Amazon rain forest on August 25, 2019, in the Candeias do Jamari region near Porto Velho, Brazil. (Victor Moriyama/Getty Images) Amazon deforestation is up 10% this year, a 12-year high according to Brazilian satellite imagery. We talk to Moira Birss of Amazon Watch about how banks and other financial institutions such as BlackRock make this destruction possible. This article was originally published on ...

KXLY December 18, 2020 4:30 AM Dan Miller - Forbes Advisor Posted: Updated: December 19, 2020 5:12 AM For nearly everyone, 2020 has been terrible—and it has hit many Americans’ wallets hard. If your budget is feeling pinched, you may want to reduce the number or cost of Christmas gifts that you send.  Many people are also choosing to pass on traditional holiday gatherings due to financial constraints, or out of respect for the health or wishes of family members. Even if you would...

Resisting Another Record-Breaking Year of Deforestation and Destruction in the Brazilian Amazon While Brazilian authorities deny the impact of the criminal arson, Amazon Watch and our allies exposed and challenged the growing fires and deforestation in the Amazon December 10, 2020 Ana Paula Vargas Over the past year, Bolsonaros government failed once again to present a plan to curb deforestation and instead further emboldened land grabbers to destroy the rainforest. Evidence points to the great...

Joined by mora a finance campaign director for amazon watch, which is an advocacy group trying to protect the rain forest. let me start with just the sort of top line, a group that works to protect the amazon. why are these fires happening? why is it so bad this year? >> well, first of all, thanks so much for having me and for bringing this really important issue to your audiences attention. these fires actually appear to have been started by farmers who farm in areas of previously deforested am...

Joined by mora a finance campaign director for amazon watch, which is an advocacy group trying to protect the rain forest. let me start with just the sort of top line, a group that works to protect the amazon. why are these fires happening? why is it so bad this year? >> well, first of all, thanks so much for having me and for bringing this really important issue to your audiences attention. these fires actually appear to have been started by farmers who farm in areas of previously deforested am...

Expertise. >> joining me now is josh fox, director and producer of "gasland county "gasland." hes in the amazon but wanted to make time for a big development in this battle. what specifically does todays news mean for this movement nationwide? >> this is gigantic. first of all, i have to do this and put on my yankees hat. >> nice, great. >> and in the peruvian amazon with amazon watch doing reporting on oil spills. look, this cant be underestimated. this is gigantic, this is huge. this has been ...