Global Pressure Over Amazon Fires Escalates, Bolsonaro Defiant August 26, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment International concern over fires in the Amazon mounted on Thursday, with the UN and French President Emmanuel Macron calling for action as Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research reported nearly 2,500 new fires in the past 48 hours.
Amazon Fires: Brazilians Blame President Bolsonaro August 25, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment The Amazon rainforest generates one-fifth of the world’s oxygen but massive swathes of the forest are currently on fire, prompting major international alarm.
Landmark Climate Change Report Calls for Overhaul of Farming and Eating Habits August 16, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment Humanity faces increasingly painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within decades unless it curbs emissions and stops unsustainable farming and deforestation, a landmark climate assessment said Thursday.