On Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s first trip abroad after winning last month’s election, he pledged to protect the Amazon rainforest and said Brazil was “leaving its cocoon.”
Tag: Global Warming
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New Measure of Climate’s Toll: Disasters Are Now Common Across US
A new report found that 90 percent of all counties nationwide have suffered a major disaster since 2011.
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A Clash at Climate Talks: Should Nations Keep the 1.5-Degree Goal?
The mantra has been: Limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or risk climate catastrophe. But at COP27, there are concerns about backsliding.
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Fighting Climate Change, Indigenous People Protect Canadian Forests
Canada is looking to its Indigenous communities to help manage its boreal forests, the world’s largest intact forest ecosystem and one of its biggest stores of carbon.
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Colombia Leads a New Latin American Left Into the Climate Fight
The country’s first leftist president says oil is his economy’s worst addiction. Phasing it out would be a global first for a major oil producer.