Humans are turning the Amazon rainforest into a carbon source https://www.earth.com/climate/humans-are-turning-the-amazon-rainforest-into-a-carbon-source/
#Amazon #environment #forest #rainforest #carbon
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World-first basic income trial boosts Indigenous livelihoods and Amazon rainforest protection https://phys.org/news/2026-10-world-basic-income-trial-boosts.html
#Amazon #environment #forest #rainforest #Indigenous #BasicIncome #UBI
Giving £2 a day to people in the Amazon helps protect rainforest, pilot project finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/20/unconditional-basic-income-amazon-rainforest-peru-study
#Amazon #environment #forest #rainforest #BasicIncome #UBI
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Good news 📰 #Tigers 🐯🐅🧡 have increased in population in #India 🇮🇳 due to successful #conservation. Extending these protections to areas where #palmoil encroaches on #rainforest #ecosystem is essential. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
NASA discovers hidden fires burning beneath the Amazon rainforest https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261016070633.htm
#Amazon #environment #forest #rainforest #wildfire #wildfires
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The gigantic Titan Arum #plant better known as the ‘Corpse Flower’ stinks like rotting flesh. They live deep in #Sumatra’s #rainforest. Endangered by #palmoil #deforestation, learn how to protect them! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴👎🛢️⛔ @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
Amazon rainforest fires surge as El Niño fuels a dangerous drought https://www.earth.com/climate/amazon-rainforest-fires-surge-as-el-nino-fuels-a-dangerous-drought/
#Amazon #environment #forest #rainforest #weather #ElNino #drought
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“Brazil’s election could determine the fate of the Amazon”
—> I am worried. We know there are tipping points and contemporary right-wing nihilists DGAF
https://grist.org/international/brazil-election-runoff-amazon-deforestation-lula-bolsonaro/
#Amazon #Bresil #Brazil #Rainforest #Forest #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity #Environment #Agriculture #Farming #FarRight
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" #Brazil is globally relevant because more than 60 percent of the planet’s largest tropical rainforest lies within its borders. This is what makes the far right’s advance in the first round of the elections a concern to the entire world population. To fail to realize this is to fail to grasp what is at stake in our era—and failing to grasp what is at stake today might cost the future of our children and the children of other species, species whose parents cannot vote but are directly affected by our good or bad choices.
If Flávio Bolsonaro beats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the runoff, there is a high probability the Forest will cease to exist as Forest, which means it will no longer function as a climate regulator or carbon sink, absorbing one of the gases that produces global heating.
There will be bare land, converted for grazing cattle, raising soybean monoculture, and extracting ores and oil, but there will be no Forest. There will be other types of vegetation, but there will be no Forest. The rainfall cycle will be altered, and even the agribusiness sector that today destroys the Forest and cheers on Flávio Bolsonaro will lose, and lose big.
This is the very near future looming before us. But it seems Brazil and the world have not realized this clearly enough."
https://sumauma.com/en/o-que-vai-acontecer-com-a-floresta-e-com-a-gente-se-flavio-bolsonaro-ganhar/
#elections #rainforest #amazon #environment #Lula #bolsonaro #climate #climatecrisis #carbon
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#News: DYK the #Amazon #rainforest has its own internet? 🦜🐒 Researchers discover what #indigenous peoples already know- #birds and #monkeys share a hidden acoustic network to warn of predators. 🌳📡 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
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An iconic #bird 🦜💚of the #Amazon #rainforest #SouthAmerica the Ariel #Toucan is endangered from #hunting #beef and #soy #palmoil #deforestation. Support this icon and be #vegan 🌱🍉 #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔☠️🤮⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
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#Research study finds that stronger #rainforest 🍃 protection means lower air #pollution particulate matter in the 💐 #Amazon resulting in saving an estimated 680 human lives each year. Resist when you shop, be #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social
How Bolsonaro's statements destroyed the rainforest https://phys.org/news/2026-09-bolsonaro-statements-destroyed-rainforest.html
#Brazil #environment #forest #rainforest #deforestation #mining #Bolsonaro #BRpol #BrazilElections2026
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It’s not just #orangutans 🦧🧡 countless #rainforest animals are at risk from #oilpalm 🐵🐒 A #study in Cell Biology finds #macaque babies 3 x more likely to die from palm oil #pesticide. Help them and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife! 🌴🩸 @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
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Awful! "The election outcome leaves the Amazon Rainforest and its peoples in peril: Bolsonarism gained ground and will soon govern seven out of nine states states in the biome where deforestation increased by 59% during the previous four years it held the presidency.
Currently, five of the region’s state administrations – Acre, Rondônia, Roraima, Mato Grosso, and Tocantins – are aligned with the far right, led by former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted of attempting a coup. As a result of the October 4 vote, it maintains control of these states and adds two more: Pará and Amapá.
The far right, which is working to tear down legal barriers to predatory exploration in the Forest, will dominate the Amazon."
https://sumauma.com/en/bolsonarismo-comandara-pelo-menos-sete-dos-nove-estados-da-amazonia/
#Brazil #Amazon #rainforest #farright #bolsonarism #elections #brazilelections2026 #environment
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The gigantic Titan Arum #plant better known as the ‘Corpse Flower’ stinks like rotting flesh. They live deep in #Sumatra’s #rainforest. Endangered by #palmoil #deforestation, learn how to protect them! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴👎🛢️⛔ @palmoildetect.bsky.social
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Today is #WorldHabitatDay 🌳🐒 #Rainforest canopy bridges mean ZERO roadkill & 15,000 safe crossings of #monkeys! Rope structures save endangered Schneider’s #marmosets & spider #monkeys from freeways. #AnimalRights #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
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Gliding between trees in #Indonesia 🇮🇩with effortless grace, the Mentawi Flying #Squirrel 🦦is a sight to behold. They need #rainforest to survive. #PalmOil is a threat, make sure you #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔💀🤮🧐🙊⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
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The cheeky colourful Bougainville Moustached Kingfisher 🦜🇵🇬 lives in #PapuaNewGuinea and #WestPapua #rainforest, endangered by #palmoil #deforestation. Boycott the brands destroying their home #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk #Boycott4Wildlife
🐒 NEW: Indri #lemurs, #Madagascar’s only #singing #primates, open their mouths wider to hit higher pitches, a vocal technique that parallels human #opera singers.
Motion-tracking analysis of #video recordings showed that mouth openings track pitch changes, helping calls carry across dense #rainforest for social bonding and territorial warnings.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/lemurs-opera-singers-share-vocal-technique/
#animals #vocalization #evolution #research #biology #sound #science #forest #wildlife #mammals
