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Amazon Sees Record High Deforestation in First Half of 2022

Yale E360

In the first half of this year, deforestation claimed roughly 1,500 square miles of the Amazon rainforest, an area five times the size of New York City and the greatest loss since at least 2016, according to the Brazilian Space Agency. Read more on E360 ?.

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Greenland Dispatch #1: the Courage to Face Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Greenland Ice Sheet, like the Amazon rainforest, is fast approaching a juncture of degradation that the Himalayan and Tien Shan glaciers have already breached.

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Emergency?

Legal Planet

A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America are also among the top five fossil financiers since 2016, the report found.”

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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

Law Columbia

It contributes to increasing pressure against President Bolsonaro for widespread environmental damage across the country, resulting from a significant lack of climate action and the pervasive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. Background: Regression in Brazil’s NDC. Bolsonaro ).

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Europe’s largest banks are speeding up the climate and biodiversity crisis – Greenpeace

A Greener Life

Between 2016 and 2023 these major influential financial players provided a staggering 21.1% of total global credit to companies in these sectors. In addition, the authors of the report highlight that the European Union (EU) provides 9.4% of current global investments to these sectors which they describe as ‘ecosystem risk sectors’.

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Analysis: Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation

A Greener Life

Across its islands, Indonesia has the third-largest area of primary rainforest in the world. According to Mareta, there were leaseholds of forest area licences for coal mining covering a forest area of 1,160 sq km in 2016. Among the 26 countries investigated, this accounted for 58.2%

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What Are The Tallest Trees In The World?

Earthava

It is one of the most highly protected areas of rainforest found in all of South-East Asia. In 2016, scientists discovered a grove of Yellow Meranti trees with a minimum height of 90 meters (295 feet). The Yellow Meranti trees (Shorea faguentiana) are the tallest tropical trees in the world. meters (330.7