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Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon

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Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon

Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the Brazilian government relaxed environmental controls

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Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

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Amazon is getting drier as deforestation shuts down atmospheric rivers

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Climate change is making trees grow larger in the Amazon rainforest

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An aerial view of illegal deforestation in the Amazon in Mato Grosso state, Brazil

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Cutting down the Amazon will bring extreme rain, wind and heat

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gold mining area in Peru's southeastern Amazon region

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Trees capture toxic fingerprint of gold mining in the Amazon

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Slowdown of critical ocean current may preserve the Amazon rainforest

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Angela Maldonado, wildlife conservationist

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Ángela Maldonado: Saving monkeys from an illegal Amazon wildlife trade

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Patrícia Medici is a world expert in lowland tapirs

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Patrícia Medici: Tapirs are the gardeners of Brazil's rainforest

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BRAZIL - MAY 05: The Trans-Amazonian highway, Amazonas State, Brazil. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point

In some recent years, the Amazon biome released more carbon than it absorbed, and further degradation could make it a permanent shift

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Amazon soil may store billions more tonnes of carbon than once thought

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One of Earth's major carbon sinks collapsed in 2023

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Half of the Amazon may be pushed to climate tipping point by 2050

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How Bolivia’s gold rush is poisoning Indigenous communities

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