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TopicAmazon forest

Topic: Amazon forest

Mosquitoes now feed more on humans than animals. Brace for newer, more dangerous diseases

The study explained that even though the Atlantic forest had a diversity of animal and bird species to feed on, over a third of the forest has been lost to deforestation.

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

Tamil Nadu’s elections are fought on delivery—ideology appears only when needed

Electoral competition now appears dominated by welfare delivery and governance metrics, but ideology has not disappeared in Tamil Nadu. Instead, it has become strategic.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

How Indian Army has tweaked its war game strategy as enemy lines on nuclear, conventional deterrence blur

Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan says India’s nuclear capability will not be considered a separate domain, but part of cognitive war in multi domain operations.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.