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By Jake Spring and David Stanway (Reuters) - Air pollution, a global scourge that kills millions of people a year, is shielding us from the full force...
By Jake Spring and David Stanway (Reuters) - Air pollution, a global scourge that kills millions of people a year, is shielding us from the full force...
By Jake Spring and David Stanway (Reuters) - Air pollution, a global scourge that kills millions of people a year, is shielding us from the full force...
The world is moving too slowly to meet pledges to end deforestation by 2030, with the destruction worsening in 2022, according to a report by a coalition of environmental organizations released on Monday. More than 140 countries - representing the vast majority of the world's woodlands - pledged at the 2021 United Nations climate summit in Glasgow to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by the end of the decade. Yet deforestation increased by 4% worldwide in 2022 compared with 2021, as some 66,000 square kilometers (25,000 square miles) were destroyed, the annual Forest Declarat...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -The water level at a major river port in Brazil's Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years on Monday, as a historic drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the jungle ecosystem. Rapidly drying tributaries to the mighty Amazon river have left boats stranded, cutting off food and water supplies to remote jungle villages, while high water temperatures are suspected of killing more than 100 endangered river dolphins. The port in Manaus, the region's most populous city located where the Negro river meets the Amazon...