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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmazonia Burns at a Record Rate, As Endangered Species Die
The Amazon is Burning at a Record RatePosted on August 25, 2019 by Jerri-Lynn Scofield
The Amazon Rainforest is burning at a record rate. The fires are so big that you can see the smoke from NASA space satellites. On Monday, the sky turned black over the city of Sao Paolo, Brazil and meteorologists found that the smoke filling the sky there was from fires thousands of kilometers away. Brazils National Institute for Space Research has documented almost 73,000 forest fires this year already. Thats an 84% uptick from what they saw in the same period last year. This comes amid a spike in deforestation in Brazil under right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. He took office in January. But on Wednesday, Bolsonaro said that NGOs are to blame for this uptake in fires.
Indigenous peoples are really on the front lines today of the most brutal attack on their rights and on the forest in 30 years. Were seeing the rollback of 30 years of progress on human rights and environmental protections in Brazil today. Indeed, harkening back to Brazils military dictatorship, the times that Jair Bolsonaro eulogizes, that he calls back to all the time, and what hed like to see is a regime installed that have a similar agenda of wanton destruction of the forest for so-called environmental progress. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/08/the-amazon-is-burning-at-a-record-rate.html
But, indigenous people are not the only organisms becoming extinct in the Brazilian Rainforset
Endangered Animals of the Amazon Rainforest
February 21, 2019 | Amazon Facts
The Amazon Rainforest has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on earth and is home to hundreds of thousands of animal, bird, and insect species. Unfortunately, this utopia of wildlife and vegetation is under attack and has been for some years now. The culprits? Humans.
https://www.rainforestcruises.com/jungle-blog/endangered-animals-of-the-amazon-rainforest
February 21, 2019 | Amazon Facts
The Amazon Rainforest has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on earth and is home to hundreds of thousands of animal, bird, and insect species. Unfortunately, this utopia of wildlife and vegetation is under attack and has been for some years now. The culprits? Humans.
https://www.rainforestcruises.com/jungle-blog/endangered-animals-of-the-amazon-rainforest
Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate, research center says
By Jessie Yeung and Abel Alvarado, CNN
(CNN)Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn that it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change.
The Amazon is often referred to as the planet's lungs, producing 20% of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
It is considered vital in slowing global warming, and it is home to uncountable species of fauna and flora. Roughly half the size of the United States, it is the largest rainforest on the planet.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/americas/amazon-rainforest-fire-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html
By Jessie Yeung and Abel Alvarado, CNN
(CNN)Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn that it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change.
The Amazon is often referred to as the planet's lungs, producing 20% of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
It is considered vital in slowing global warming, and it is home to uncountable species of fauna and flora. Roughly half the size of the United States, it is the largest rainforest on the planet.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/americas/amazon-rainforest-fire-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html
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Amazonia Burns at a Record Rate, As Endangered Species Die (Original Post)
Jeffersons Ghost
Aug 2019
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roamer65
(36,745 posts)1. Humans are a virus.
I think the host will get us first, though.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)2. Humans are their own worst enemy: Here's new video of the fire:
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)3. Kick for added video