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Brazilian Amazon is now releasing more carbon dioxide than it absorbs
May 09, 2021 15:24The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20 percent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the last decade than it absorbed, according to a stunning report that shows humanity can no longer depend on the world's largest tropical forest to help absorb manmade carbon pollution.
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Brazil seeks to hold Bolsonaro accountable for more than 400,000 COVID-19 deaths
May 06, 2021 05:49Brazil’s COVID-19 crisis remains one of the worst in the world, and a brutal economic depression has forced millions into poverty.
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Virus variant in Brazil infected many who had already recovered from COVID-19
Mar 03, 2021 11:58In just a matter of weeks, two variants of the coronavirus have become so familiar that you can hear their inscrutable alphanumeric names regularly uttered on television news.
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Amazon rainforest will collapse by 2064, new study predicts
Jan 10, 2021 17:34Science and Policy for Sustainable Development concluded that the Amazon rainforest will collapse and largely become a dry, shrubby plain by 2064.
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Latin America’s pandemic of mounting troubles
Jan 03, 2021 07:04Many regions performed badly when confronted with COVID-19, but Latin America fared worse than most, in terms of both lives and livelihoods lost. As of November 2020, nine of the 20 countries with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths per capita were in Latin America.
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Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic
Dec 21, 2020 12:37To some, it might seem too soon to contemplate the next global outbreak, with the world still grappling with the devastating fallout of the ongoing one. But scientists say it's highly like that, without savvy intervention, another novel virus will jump from animal to human host and find the conditions to spread like wildfire.
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Killing of two girls stokes outrage over Brazil's horrific toll of black lives
Dec 16, 2020 10:55The shooting of two young black girls – who had between them enjoyed fewer than 11 years of life – has sparked outrage in Brazil and intensified the debate over police violence and structural racism in a country still grappling with the legacy of slavery.
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Shameful and outrageous: New satellite data reveals Brazilian Amazon deforestation at 12-year high
Dec 15, 2020 18:22Instead of acting to prevent the increase in deforestation, the Bolsonaro government has been denying the reality of the situation, dismantling environmental agencies, and attacking NGOs.
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Amazon deforestation surges to 12-year high under Bolsonaro
Dec 03, 2020 16:32A vast expanse of Amazon rainforest seven times larger than Greater London has been destroyed over the last year as deforestation surges to a 12-year high under Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
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Brazilian health workers file ICC complaint arguing Bolsonaro COVID-19 response has been crime against humanity
Aug 02, 2020 04:37A network of unions and social organizations representing over a million health workers in Brazil filed a complaint recently calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate President Jair Bolsonaro's widely condemned handling of the coronavirus pandemic, arguing it amounts to a crime against humanity.