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Ebola outbreak sparks concern in India, US: Should you be worried? Here's what you need to know about signs, symptoms and preventionEbola in India: The WHO has declared the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency with over 300 cases and 88 deaths. In...- A Rainforest Once Covered West Antarctica: Sediment Cores Reveal How It VanishedAstonishingly, dense temperate rainforests once flourished near the South Pole 90 million years ago. Fossil evidence from seabed cores reve...
- Conservationist shares first-ever video of uncontacted Amazon tribe deep in the RainforestRare, high-definition footage of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe has been revealed. Conservationist Paul Rosolie shared the unprecedented vi...
- At COP30, focus on wildfire prevention amid record destructionDozens of governments and organizations at COP30 pledged $100 million by 2030 to boost wildfire prevention, focusing initially on the Amazo...
- World leaders gather for second day in Brazil, seeking solutions to confront global warmingBrazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday sought to mobilise funding to halt the ongoing destruction of tropical rainforests...
- Banks are financing their own multitrillion-dollar nightmareDespite climate risks, the world's largest banks increased fossil fuel financing to $869.4 billion last year, reversing previous declines. ...
- A corporate deal that protected the Amazon from soy farming starts to show cracksBrazilian soy farmers are expanding into the Amazon, exploiting a loophole in the Amazon Soy Moratorium that excludes secondary forests. Th...
- Irony at its peak? Amazon deforestation sparks outrage as eight miles of thick rainforest cut down in Brazil to build 4-lane highway for COP30 Climate SummitBrazil is constructing an eight-mile highway through the Amazon rainforest, leading to concerns about environmental damage ahead of the COP...
- It’s OK to mine the rainforest for car batteriesEfforts to halt deforestation in Indonesia are lagging, with palm oil plantations presenting a far greater threat than nickel mining.
- Humanity is on the verge of 5 climate ‘tipping points,’ report warnsA new study warns that five major global tipping points are in danger of being crossed at current levels of warming, leaving humanity at an...
- Environmental damage from Belt and Road Initiative projects on riseChina's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects have caused significant damage to the environment across all countries where they were impl...
- Great Nicobar mega project gets environmental nodThe project, which will see around 8.5 lakh trees in pristine rainforests being felled, loss of 12 to 20 hectares of mangrove cover and con...
- The women guarding India's rainforest 'refugees'As deforestation and climate change ravage India's UNESCO heritage-listed Western Ghats mountain range, an all-female rainforest force is b...
- From chocolate to soybeans, tropical forests were illegally cleared to make way for everyday foodsIllegal clearance for commercial agriculture was behind the loss of 4.5 mn hectares of forest.
- Desperate race against fires in world's biggest tropical wetlandsThere have been a record-shattering 14,764 fires in the Brazilian Pantanal this year, according to satellite data from Brazil's National Sp...
- No let-up in global rainforest loss as coronavirus brings new dangerTropical rainforests disappeared at a rate of one football pitch every six seconds last year, researchers said on Tuesday, urging countries...
- COP21: Coral reefs doomed even if climate conference is 'wildly successful'Peter F Sale warned that coral reefs will not be found anywhere on Earth by the middle of the century, even if December's COP21 in Paris is...
- Asia-Pacific consuming more resources than ecosystem can sustain: ReportAsia and the Pacific is consuming more resources than its ecosystems can sustain, threatening the future of the region’s beleaguered forest...
- Human error: Man-made ecological disastersThe oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is now about the size of Puerto Rico. It has already reached the marshes of Louisiana. As environmental...
- Asia's rainforests vanishing as timber, food demand surge: ExpertsAsia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, e...
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