Amazon
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AMERICAS
South America’s second-largest forest is also burning – and ‘environmentally friendly’ charcoal is subsidizing its destruction
By Joel E. Correia, University of Florida The fires raging across the Brazilian Amazon have captured the world’s attention. Meanwhile,…
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AMERICAS
Dousing the sovereignty wildfire
By Jean Pisani-Ferry On the eve of the recent G7 summit in Biarritz, French President Emmanuel Macron described the Amazon…
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POLITICS
Brazil thanks Trump for being “on the same page” in the Amazon controversy: no foreign interference
Brazil and the United States believe the international community should have no say in confronting fires raging in the Amazon…
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AMERICAS
The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
By Catesby Holmes, The Conversation Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire…
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AMERICAS
Amazon, Google and Facebook warrant antitrust scrutiny for many reasons – not just because they’re large
By Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology There’s a growing chorus of U.S. politicians, antitrust scholars and consumer watchdogs calling…
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AMERICAS
Why environmental destruction in Latin America is a threat to U.S. interests
By Kamelia Kilawan When an endangered sea mammal, the rarest of its kind, like Baja’s vaquita also known as the…
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