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Thursday, August 28, 2025
TopicAmazon forest

Topic: Amazon forest

After rescuing 4 children from Amazon forest, operation restarts to find missing search dog

The Belgian Shepherd helped the rescue team reach the Cessna 206 aircraft, and was also credited for smelling out the kids using a feeding bottle of the youngest child.

Brazil launches first anti-deforestation raids under Lula bid to protect Amazon

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the campaign trail last year, pledged to put environmental agency Ibama, back in charge of combating deforestation with beefed-up funding and personnel.

Deforestation has wiped out 8% of Amazon rainforest in just 18 years

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

Not just the Amazon rain forest, other one-of-a-kind ecosystems are burning down too

South America’s Pantanal wetlands — reaching into Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay — are burning at a record pace this year, and commercial farmers are largely to blame.

Bolsonaro plans 4-month ban on Amazon fires in response to investor backlash

The move came after China imposed the National Security Law in Hong Kong that punishes dissent, criminalises sedition and curbs protests with life imprisonment.

Amazon forest is reaching its tipping point, world needs to scale solutions

If even 20-25 per cent of Amazon is deforested, its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide would collapse and it could become its biggest patch of scrub land.

Trump, the ‘chosen one’, and the ‘butcher of Amazon’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Brazil’s president wants to deforest the Amazon, and the UN has few options to stop him

The Amazon is a crucial carbon sink, which makes responding to Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro's deforestation efforts a matter of international responsibility.

On Camera

How economic planning stifled India’s growth and talent

The Indian planning system did not encourage individuals based on ‘what they knew’, but on ‘whom they knew’. Many left for countries that recognised their talent.

All bets off as online gaming bill shakes industry & key players suspend ‘gambling’ on their platforms

The new law, which the government has framed as a moral duty, forced major platforms like Dream11 & Zupee to shut operations, wiping out hundreds of crores in market capitalisation. 

Post-Sindoor, joint doctrine tasks Special Forces with fighting info warfare & countering propaganda

Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.