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Peru’s President Affirms Sovereignty of Amazon River Island as Tensions with Colombia Escalate

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Over 90 arrests made in global crackdown on environmental crime in the Amazon Basin

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Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin.Environment · Colombia See the Story

Peru’s Amazon communities accuse the state of failing to stop mercury pollution from illegal mining

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Brazil strikes deal with Musk’s Starlink to curb criminal use in the Amazon rainforest

49% Center coverage: 27 sources

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink to curb the use of its services in illegal mining and other criminal activities in the Amazon. Starlink’s lightweight, high-speed internet system has rapidly spread across the Amazon, a region that for decades struggled with slow and unreliable connectivity. But the service has also been adopted by criminal organizations, which have used it to coordinate logistics, make payments and receive alerts about police raids.Brazil Politics · Brazil See the Story

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

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The Tocantins-Araguaia waterway is one of the Brazilian government’s priority projects for transporting soy, corn, meat, minerals and other commodities to ports in the Amazon Rainforest. The project calls for more than 2,000 kilometers (more than 1,200 miles) of navigable channels in these two rivers, which cross the Amazon and the Cerrado savanna biomes, and is part of the so-called Arco Norte project, a set of infrastructure plans to improve l…Amazon · Brazil See the Story

What would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers

73% Center coverage: 54 sources

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world’s largest rainforest.But this patch of degraded forest, about the size of a soccer field, is a scientific experiment. Launched in 2000 by Brazilian and British scientists, Esecaflor — short for “Forest Drought Study Project” in Portuguese— set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall. It is the longest-running project of its kind in the world, and has become a source for dozens of academic articles in fields ranging from meteorology to ecology and physiology.Amazon Rainforest · Brazil See the Story

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Peru’s President Affirms Sovereignty of Amazon River Island as Tensions with Colombia Escalate

Over 90 arrests made in global crackdown on environmental crime in the Amazon Basin

Peru’s Amazon communities accuse the state of failing to stop mercury pollution from illegal mining

Brazil strikes deal with Musk’s Starlink to curb criminal use in the Amazon rainforest

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

What would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers

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Over 90 arrests made in global crackdown on environmental crime in the Amazon Basin

Peru’s Amazon communities accuse the state of failing to stop mercury pollution from illegal mining

Brazil strikes deal with Musk’s Starlink to curb criminal use in the Amazon rainforest

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

What would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers