Posts Tagged ‘rainforest’

Fires ravage Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

Fires rage in the Amazon rainforest, near Porto Velho, state of Rondonia, northern Brazil. Experts say the fires are caused mainly by illegal farmers, ranchers and speculators clearing land and torching the trees.

The Dreaded Rainforest Shift

Major portions of the Amazon rainforest have shifted from a carbon sink to a carbon source. This shift has severe planet-wide negative implications. Studies of the Amazon Rainforest over the past decade have shown telltale signals of an impending shift from a carbon sink of heat-trapping gases to a source of greenhouse gases. It’s a […]

Nicaragua’s Rainforest And Indigenous Peoples

A Story Of Falsehood, Lies And US-Based Political Campaigns. Masaya, Nicaragua – Indigenous peoples and the rainforests that many inhabit are under threat. Everyone knows it. In Latin America especially, international NGOs like Global Witness and Frontline Defenders tell a story which seems self-evidently true: outsiders are exploiting natural resources, governments are indifferent or actively […]

Amazonians Drastically Altered the Rainforest 3,500 Years Ago

In an article appearing in the 7 June 2021 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS), a team of researchers has revealed the results of an enlightening new study about land use practices of people who lived in the Amazon rainforest more than 3,500 years ago. Their conclusions contradicted the […]

Amazon Rainforest Will Collapse by 2064, New Study Predicts

The future of the world’s largest rainforest looks bleak. A new report for Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development concluded that the Amazon rainforest will collapse and largely become a dry, shrubby plain by 2064. Development, deforestation and the climate crisis are to blame, study author and University of Florida geologist Robert Toovey Walker found, UPI reported. Walker reviewed recent research, offering […]

Lost ‘Cosmic’ Amazonian Villages Discovered in Brazilian Rainforest

Helicopter Lidar scans have revealed an ancient Amazonian “cosmos” of circular settlements, all connected by straight roads. Acre is an Amazonian rainforest state in northwestern Brazil known for Brazil nut trees and the production of rubber. In the west, on the Peruvian border, the Serra do Divisor National Park features high mountains and several waterfalls, […]

Intentional fires are destroying the Amazon rainforest

A year ago, “Fire Day,” a day to intentionally light fires, sparked international concern when the number of forest fires in the Novo Progresso region, a city in the Amazon region of Pará, skyrocketed massively. Today, with the start of the “fire season”, the region is once again drawing international attention. For the residents of […]

Forest fires surge in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, prompting fears for ‘planet’s lungs’

The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon last month rose 28 percent from July 2019, satellite data showed Saturday, as environment groups warned a spike this week could devastate the rainforest, known as the ‘lungs of the planet’ again this year. Brazil’s national space agency, INPE, identified 6,803 fires in the Amazon region […]

Indonesia, Brazil Rainforest: The World Lost an Area of Tree Cover the Size of New Zealand Last Year

Pepsico, Unilever and Nestlé accused of complicity in illegal rainforest destruction

Pepsico, Unilever and Nestlé have been accused of complicity in the destruction of Sumatra’s last tract of rainforest shared by elephants, orangutans, rhinos, and tigers together in one ecosystem. Plantations built on deforested land have allegedly been used to supply palm oil to scores of household brands that also include McDonald’s, Mars, Kellogg’s […]

Scheme To Protect Second Largest Rainforest Threatened By Corruption, Politics

Children of a logger in the wait to be transported along the Lomami River, a tributary of the Congo River. Approximately 40 million people in the DRC depend on the rainforest for their basic needs, such as medicine, food or shelter. (Photo: Greenpeace/Jiro Ose) A UK-backed deal to protect the world’s second largest rainforest is […]

Big Pharma finds new use for statins in cancer patients, after large study reveals the drug’s benefits were 100 percent fabricated

(NaturalNews) As the consensus about statins as cholesterol-lowering “miracle drugs” starts to crack, Big Pharma is doubtless looking for ways to preserve the profitability of the top-earning drug class of all time. Now, a new study in the journal Breast Cancer Research may indicate how statins will soon be marketed: as anti-cancer drugs. […]

6 Ways To Easily Stop Your Negative Habits

Have you ever wondered why we tend to find ourselves repeating the same unwanted cycles of behavior, time and time again? If you’ve ever wanted to empower yourself to change that, below are some excellent tools that will help you! During the process of socialization in our early lives, we developed a number of coping […]

Recipe For Banana Cinnamon Tea That Works Like A Sleeping Pill

We’ve heard it for decades now and the truth is still clear: sleep is incredibly important. Whether you are young or old (or anywhere in between), skipping out on sleep can cause a number of health issues you should really watch out for. Your precious Z’s are linked to anything from hypertension to stress to poor heart and […]

5 Whistle Blowers Everyone Needs To Know

With the awakening continuing to speed up in our world, it seems that information continues to spill out of the darkness and into the light more and more with each passing week. Whistle-blowers continue to come out and speak of what they know; both on a micro-scale (truths coming out at work, school or small […]

Top Ten Illuminati Monuments & Landmarks

PROMETHEUS STATUE AT ROCKEFELLER PLAZA Gilt Bronze statue of Prometheus giving humanity knowledge at Rockefeller Center Gilt Bronze statue of Prometheus giving humanity knowledge at Rockefeller Center The 8-ton gilded cast bronze statue was sculpted by Paul Manship in 1934 and placed above the Lower Plaza at the Rockefeller Center. It represents the Greek Titan […]

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