Last year, 2023, was the hottest year on record, with one dataset finding temperatures 1.54ºC hotter than pre-industrial levels. 2023 also brought the harshest drought in the history of the Amazon rainforest; an early sign that we may have triggered a major climate tipping point.
On Wednesday, Brazil’s Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) put 602 new oil blocks up for auction, at least 21 of which are in the Amazon River Basin. This is the fourth bidding cycle a system adopted in 2019 and carried out every year to grant corporations the ability to carry out oil and […]