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TIME Immersive AR Experience Shines A Spotlight On The Rapidly Shrinking Amazon Rainforest

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TIME turns to AR and Jane Goodall to help expose deforestation in Brazil. TIME Turns To AR And Jane Goodall To Explore The Rapidly Shrinking Amazon Rainforest. Behind-the-scenes of Inside the Amazon / Image Credit: TIME Immersive. Feature Image Credit: TIME IMMERSIVE.

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How a couple replanted an entire forest in Brazil

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With over 2 million trees planted in under 30 years, the pair's incredibly successful conservation efforts are a beacon of hope in Brazil, where devastating deforestation rates are pushing the Amazon rainforest to a catastrophic tipping point.

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Look at This Stretch of Amazon Rainforest Cleared in a Year

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The Amazon rainforest in Mato Grosso Brazil is shrinking. Brazil’s space research agency, INPE, reported that the first quarter of 2022 set a new deforestation record for the rainforest— 941 square kilometers were cleared from Janaury to the end of March. This is the largest area of deforestation that the agency… Read more.

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Some Tropical Forests in Brazil Are Already Releasing More Carbon Than They Absorb

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For years, climate scientists have been sounding the alarm about the increasing likelihood that the Amazon rainforest, now one of the biggest absorbers of carbon in the world, could actually become a source of carbon within just 15 years. New research shows that for some other kinds of tropical forests nearby, that’s… Read more.

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Let’s Check in on the Amazon, and Damn, That’s Not Good

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Major fires in the Brazilian Amazon are being set at an unprecedented rate. 25, 2020, more than 500 major forest fires blazed across roughly 912,000 acres, new satellite data from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) shows. Between May 28 and Aug. That’s on par with the inferno that’s consumed California … Read more.

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A Staggering Amount of Amazon Rainforest Disappeared Last Month

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The number of trees cut down in the Brazilian section of the Amazon rainforest in January was five times greater than the same period last year, according to satellite imagery data from Brazil’s space research agency, INPE. Read more.

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Bolsonaro Oversaw a Connecticut-Sized Chunk of Deforestation in the Amazon Last Year

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Last year was a bad one around the world—but especially, it seems, in the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation in the Amazon rocketed up 17% last year, due in large part to increased logging, agriculture, mining, and wildfires, new data published Wednesday shows. Read more.