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In the first four months of this year, deforestation in Brazil totaled more than 446 square miles, a 4-percent decrease from 2020, according to Reuters.
The Brazilian government has been widely criticized by conservation groups as a negligent steward of the Amazon rainforest. Amazon deforestation has spiked since Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019. The president has weakened environmental enforcement and pushed for more mining and farming in the country.
Government data shows deforestation hit a 12-year high in 2020.
Brazil is facing increasing pressure from the U.S. and others to curb destruction of the world’s largest tropical rainforest amid international efforts to rein in the fallout from climate change. The Biden administration is in talks to possibly fund conservation efforts in the country.
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A Dangerous Divide
The Growing Debate over the Suspension of Vaccine Patents
The U.S. no longer want to enforce patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines, but critics argue that this will do little to improve the lack of access in the developing world. Some are calling for much more ambitious solutions.
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During the more than three decades Brazilian Senator Paulo Paim has been a member of parliament, he has always been a voice for people who look up at the world from below. Paim has introduced laws aimed at establishing a minimum wage and at ensuring equality for Black people and the disabled. I am 71 years old, he says. I have fought so many battles. But none of them have been as important as this one.
According to president, his condition improved a few hours after taking the medicine
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 7. /TASS/. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro believes that he could have recently been reinfected with COVID-19, he said on Thursday during his weekly social media broadcast. A few days ago, I had symptoms of possible reinfection [with coronavirus]. I took ivermectin. I was fine the next day, he said without clarifying whether he was tested. At the same time, the leader slammed those who criticize alternative medicine even if their effectiveness is yet to be proven scientifically.
Bolsonaro first was diagnosed with COVID-19 on July 7, 2020. The president then started taking hydroxychloroquine for treatment. According to Bolsonaro, his condition improved a few hours after taking the medicine. At the same time, the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier halted hydroxychloroquine trials as a potential Covid treatment medicine, citing research saying that it has no positive eff
A new study looked at the volume of CO2 absorbed and stored as the forest grows, versus the amounts released back into the atmosphere as it gets degraded.
By Harold James
Why Crisis Ends in Connection
The thought that trade and globalization might make a comeback in the 2020s, picking up renewed vigor after the pandemic, may seem far-fetched. After all, COVID-19 is fragmenting the world, destroying multilateralism, and disrupting complex cross-border supply chains. The virus looks like it is completing the work of the 2008 financial crisis: the Great Recession produced more trade protectionism, forced governments to question globalization, increased hostility to migration, and, for the first time in over four decades, ushered in a sustained period in which global trade grew more slowly than global production. Even then, however, there was no complete reversal or deglobalization; rather, there was an uncertain, sputtering “slobalization.” In contrast, today’s vaccine nationalism is rapidly driving China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States into open confrontation and sowing bitter conflict within the EU. It is all