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Amazon deforestation seen from the air: in pictures
2014-10-16 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Arial surveillance of the Amazon by environmental campaigners has revealed how loggers are continuing to ravage the world's largest rainforest despite attempts to halt deforestation.
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Amazon deforestation up 29 pc in 2013 -- Brazil
2014-09-11 00:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Deforestation in the Amazon rose 29 percent between August 2012 and July of last year to 5,891 square kilometers (2,275 square miles), Brazilian officials said Wednesday, posting an amended figure. Last year, authorities indicated a slightly lower figure of 5,843 square kilometers for a 28 percent rise. That reversed several years of decline despite being the second lowest annual increase since records began in 1988. The official Institute of Special Investigations (INPE) unveiled the amended...
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Brazil confirms Amazon deforestation sped up in 2013
2014-09-10 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The destruction of the world's largest rainforest accelerated last year with a 29 percent spike in deforestation, according to final figures released by the Brazilian government on Wednesday that confirmed a reversal in gains seen since 2009. Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July 2013 showed that 5,891 square km (3,360 square miles) of forest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon, an area half the size of Puerto Rico. Fighting the destruction of the Amazon is considered crucial...
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Startup plans to tackle illegal deforestation in Amazon with old smartphones
2014-08-01 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Old smartphones turned into solar devices to detect illegal activities in the Amazon are the innovative response proposed by a San Francisco-based start up that has joined conservationists to protect rainforest. San Francisco tech start-up Rainforest Connection has teamed up with conservation charities and indigenous communities to protect the Amazon for illegal logging and receiving widespread support. The company which has an undergoing campaign on Kickstarter to raise funds collects...
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World Cup Spotlight, Amazon Tribes Call End Deforestation
2014-06-17 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Chief Raoni Metuktire, head of the Kayap indigenous group from the Xingu region, deep in the Amazon rainforest, sits in a packed lecture hall in London. With his jutting lip plate and large feather headdress, the elderly, gently-spoken tribal leader is an imposing presence. When Im gone I want my children and grandchildren to live in the forest as I have done, he says. I ask for your help. In the past, we didnt knock down the trees, destroy the land and build dams, but now all that is happening....