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Carbon & Climate
Reading the ruins of Amazon fires, scientists see crisis ahead
Smoke signals from Amazon raise fears of global tipping point on climate change.
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Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC
Logging companies have “acquired” roughly 1m hectares of Indigenous peoples’ territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2000, according to a new study.
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‘Unprecedented’ stress in up to half of the Amazon may lead to tipping point by 2050
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A new analysis lists the Malaysian and Indonesian oil firms as two of the world’s four state-owned oil companies which will face the highest costs for continued oil expansion. Falling demand of the dirty fuel could impact their national economies.
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Amazon summit lights way for Indigenous say in forest protection
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