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Financing fossil fuels, which are the primary cause of climate change, has become controversial in recent years, with major banks under fire for the scale of their lending for oil and gas development

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — In Brazil’s capital on Monday, the silence was deafening.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done it again: Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, the leftist defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro Sunday in an

The non-profit alliance achieved a number of successes over the past year, including the conservation of critically endangered biodiverse forests in Canada, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Peru,

David George Haskell explores the sounds of the South American rainforest, a glorious tumult that reveals the hidden rhythms of life.

Moment ago, it really follows a pattern that weve known for some time, that about 70 to 75% of all the new emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, namely they jump from an animal species to a human. we saw that with hiv. we saw that with ebola. we see that with monkeypox. and were seeing with this historic pandemic, the pandemic of covid-19, which almost certainly evolved the way sars-cov-2 sars-cov-1, from an animal environment from a bat, that jumped species. so if we want to pay attention ...

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Brazilian police say they are questioning a suspect in the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous affairs official who went missing in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest more than three days ago

“I’m absolutely convinced we will get a low-carbon, no-carbon economy at some point in time. The challenge is will we get there in time to heed the warnings of the scientists and avoid the worst consequences of the crisis?” ((John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, May 2022.)) In a soft pitch interview by Andy

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Tuesday that creates stricter rules against environmental crimes in the Amazon rainforest, such as fraud in timber licensing