The total area cleared in the Amazon in the first nine months of the year fell 49.5%, according to preliminary data from Brazilian space research agency INPE.
Brazil’s national space research agency said that 2,649 sqkm of rainforest were cleared, lowest for the period since 2019. But that’s still more than 3 times size of New York City.
Global Forest Watch, which is backed by World Resources Institute & draws on forest data by University of Maryland, said about 41,000 sq km of tropical rainforest was lost in 2022.
According to science experts, there has been no change in outgoing Brazilian President Bolsonaro's policy of weakening environmental agencies to explain the drop in deforestation.
Journalist Dom Phillips and activist Bruno Pereira were reportedly documenting impact of cocaine trafficking and illegal poaching on the rainforest when they went missing on 5 June.
Kottayam-born Shaji Thomas has been living in Brazil for 32 years. In this period, he took Brazilian citizenship and became the country's only Indian-origin lawyer to serve Amazonian communities.
The study analyses existing data about rainforests and climate change, and attributes natural as well as human factors to increased emissions from the rainforest.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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