The Amazon
‘Genocide of His People Is Complete’: Last Member of Isolated Brazilian Tribe Found Dead
by The CNCL Team | Aug 30, 2022 | Human Society | 0
“For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth,” said one Indigenous rights campaigner.
Read MoreThe Dreaded Rainforest Shift
by Robert Hunziker | Nov 28, 2021 | Earth | 0
Major portions of the Amazon rainforest have shifted from a carbon sink to a carbon source. This shift has severe planet-wide negative implications.
Read MoreExpert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out – Says Going Vegan is the #1 Remedy
by Robert Hunziker | Nov 22, 2020 | Personal | 0
According to Dr. Carter, we’re facing “the most rapid extinction Earth has ever experienced.” But there are solutions: “The most effective, definitively effective, immediately effective, readily doable action that everybody in the world can do is Go Vegan. In theory, we can all do that. If we do that, emissions drop immediately.”
Read MoreKiss the Amazon Rainforest Goodbye
by Robert Hunziker | Oct 3, 2020 | Earth | 0
Right before the eyes of the world, the most legendary rainforest on the planet is going up in smoke.
Read MoreThe World on Fire
by Robert Hunziker | Aug 8, 2020 | Earth | 0
Massive uncontrolled unprecedented wildfires are consuming portions of the Amazon rainforest and several regions of the Arctic. Somebody somewhere must be asking why all of a sudden in unison, all over creation, two of the planet’s largest ecosystems are going up in smoke.
Read More‘Ground-Breaking’ Documentary Links Amazon Fires And Deforestation To Animal Agriculture
by The CNCL Team | Aug 3, 2020 | Earth | 0
Moby, who executively produced the film, says it’s a ‘must-watch for anyone who is passionate about combating corruption’
Read MoreAmazon Rainforest Hit By Killer Droughts
by Robert Hunziker | Jun 26, 2020 | Earth | 0
Over the past 20 years, like clockwork, severe droughts have hit the Amazon every five years with regularity 2005, 2010, 2015. Of course, droughts have hit the Amazon rainforest throughout paleoclimate history, but this time it’s different. The frequency and severity is off the charts.
Read MoreThis Is What Climate Change Looks Like In An Era Of Covid-19
by The CNCL Team | Mar 31, 2020 | Earth | 0
The coronavirus pandemic seems likely to continue to threaten and disrupt lives across the world for at least several months to come. But it’s vital this does not mean the ongoing impacts of climate change are buried behind the headlines or ignored by governments.
Read MoreAmazon Onslaught
by Robert Hunziker | Feb 15, 2020 | Earth | 0
This month, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro proposed a new bill promoting mining, expanded agriculture, and energy production on indigenous lands in the Amazon. During Bolsonaro’s first full year in office, Amazon deforestation increased by 85%, an eye-popping number expected to get even worse.
Read MoreThe Amazon at a Tipping Point
by Robert Hunziker | Dec 25, 2019 | Earth | 0
The Amazon rainforest is a crucial life-support ecosystem–without it, civilization would cease to exist beyond scattered tribes, here and there. But recent research concludes that the life of this beacon of biodiversity and resilience may soon come to an end: “The tipping point is here, it is now.”
Read MoreThe Murders of Indigenous Activists in the Amazon Continue to Rise
by The CNCL Team | Dec 19, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Ten indigenous people have been murdered so far in Brazil in 2019, including seven tribal leaders — the highest number of indigenous leaders killed in two decades.
Read MoreAmazon Rainforest ‘Close to Irreversible Tipping Point’
by The CNCL Team | Oct 28, 2019 | Earth | 0
Soaring deforestation coupled with the destructive policies of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, could push the Amazon rainforest dangerously to an irreversible “tipping point” within two years
Read MoreGreta Thunberg and Indigenous Amazon Defender Among Visionary Campaigners Honored With Right Livelihood Awards
by The CNCL Team | Sep 26, 2019 | Human Society | 0
The Right Livelihood Foundation celebrated four “practical visionaries whose leadership has empowered millions of people to defend their inalienable rights and to strive for a livable future for all on planet Earth.”
Read MoreWhy Protecting the Amazon Is Critical to Solving the Climate Crisis.
by The CNCL Team | Sep 16, 2019 | Earth | 0
The world has spent weeks watching fires ravage the Amazon Rainforest, and along with it, our chances of meeting the Paris Agreement’s goals. What’s more, scientists predict that this critical ecosystem is nearing an irreversible tipping point: a decline from lush rainforest to dry savanna.
Read MoreProtecting Indigenous Rights Will Safeguard Future of Amazon Forest, Advise Colombian Tribal Leaders
by The CNCL Team | Sep 9, 2019 | Human Society | 0
A key way to safeguard the Amazon is by placing more land under protection, including indigenous reserves, backed up by government policy that monitors illegal logging, enforces laws and respects land rights in those areas, green groups say.
Read MoreThe Companies Behind the Burning of the Amazon
by The CNCL Team | Sep 2, 2019 | Earth | 0
The burning of the Amazon and the darkening of skies from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, have captured the world’s conscience. Much of the blame for the fires has rightly fallen on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for directly encouraging the burning of forests and the seizure of Indigenous Peoples’ lands. But the incentive for the destruction comes from large-scale international meat and soy animal feed companies.
Read MoreHow Amazon Forest Loss May Affect Water—and Climate—Far Away
by The CNCL Team | Sep 2, 2019 | Earth | 0
The Amazon has already been so degraded that even a small uptick in deforestation could send the forest hurtling toward a transition to something resembling a woodland savanna. But in addition to forever destroying huge sections of the world’s largest rainforest, that shift would release tremendous quantities of planet-warming greenhouse gases which will affect us all.
Read MoreIndigenous Tribes on Front Line of Amazon Rainforest Fires Vow to Resist Bolsonaro’s “Destruction of Mother Nature”
by The CNCL Team | Aug 29, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Indigenous tribes whose land and livelihoods are being directly harmed by the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest vowed Tuesday to do everything in their power to resist Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s “destruction of Mother Nature” and called on the rest of the world to join them.
Read MoreSmoke Has Blotted Out the Sun in São Paulo as the Amazon Burns
by The CNCL Team | Aug 22, 2019 | Earth | 0
The Amazon has been in deep, deep trouble ever since far-right president Jair Bolsnaro took over running Brazil. Advocates feared his regime would commit ecological “genocide” in the Amazon and with each passing month, those fears are becoming reality.
Read MoreThe Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest | George Monbiot
by The CNCL Team | Aug 19, 2019 | Earth | 0
“If we lose the Amazon rainforest, we lose everything.” Journalist George Monbiot warns us of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, which has been greatly accelerating in recent months.
Read MoreIn Ecuador, One Man’s Mission to Restore a Piece of the Rainforest
by The CNCL Team | Aug 15, 2019 | Earth | 0
Ecuador has lost thousands of square miles of rainforest, the land converted to pasture and crop fields and cleared for oil and gas development. Today, trees cover just 35 percent of the country’s surface, down from more than 90 percent a century ago.
Read MorePlanting Trees Is Good. Eliminating Deforestation is Better.
by The CNCL Team | Aug 12, 2019 | Earth | 0
Planting more trees is one way to offset deforestation. But now, a report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds that to have a shot at combatting the climate crisis, among other efforts, we’ll need to cut down fewer trees to begin with.
Read MoreAmazon Deforestation Accelerating Towards Unrecoverable ‘Tipping Point’
by The CNCL Team | Jul 29, 2019 | Earth | 0
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged above three football fields a minute, according to the latest government data, pushing the world’s biggest rainforest closer to a tipping point beyond which it cannot recover.
Read MoreRevealed: How the Global Beef Trade Is Destroying the Amazon
by The CNCL Team | Jul 18, 2019 | Earth | 0
Between 1980 and 2005, Amazon deforestation levels reached 20,000 sq km per year — with an area the size of Wales being lost. Although there have been political murmurings about trying to halt the destruction, the latest data shows that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has risen by 73% since 2012. The number one cause? Raising cattle for beef.
Read MoreBrazil Deforestation Exceeds 88% in June Under Bolsonaro
by The CNCL Team | Jul 10, 2019 | Earth | 0
Deforestation in Brazil’s portion of the Amazon rainforest soared more than 88% in June compared with the same month a year ago, the second consecutive month of rising forest destruction under new President Jair Bolsonaro, who has called for development of the region.
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