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New study warns swaths of Amazon have already passed key ‘tipping point’

Jessica Corbett — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:00:53 +0000

Indigenous leaders and scientists on Monday revealed research showing that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest is so advanced that some swaths may have hit a key tipping point and never recover. While experts have long warned of human activity causing portions of the massive, biodiverse rainforest to shift to savannah, the new findings were unveiled on […]

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‘Dictatorship never again’: massive pro-democracy protests sweep Brazil

Brett Wilkins — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:00:03 +0000

Protests—some of them massive—in defense of democracy and education and against far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s coup-mongering were held in cities across Brazil Thursday, less than two months before the first round of the South American nation’s presidential election. Demonstrations took place in at least 23 of Brazil’s 26 state capitals, as well as in the […]

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Sanders warns that ‘like Trump, Bolsonaro is attempting to undermine democracy in Brazil’

Jake Johnson — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:00:54 +0000

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders warned after meeting with Brazilian civil society leaders on Tuesday that the Latin American country’s far-right leader, President Jair Bolsonaro, appears poised to replicate Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the democratic process in a bid to stay in power as he trails in the polls to leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “Like Trump, […]

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