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Forest cleared for oil palm plantations

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Outdoor workers are losing hours due to overheating from deforestation

Forests have a localised cooling effect, and in tropical areas where deforestation has occurred, outdoor workers are now feeling the heat more

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Excavation of a 125,000-year-old archaeological site at Neumark-Nord 2 near Halle, Germany, summer 2007. The excavation of this specific lake shore site, well-preserved in fine-grained water laid deposits, yielded the cut-marked remains of hundreds of large mammals, mainly horses and bovids, and about 20,000 stone artefacts.

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Neanderthals may have cleared a European forest with fire or tools

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Pasture and young secondary forest in Anhembi, Brazil

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Tropical forests can regrow within 20 years on some abandoned farmland

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2E3TB2E Soy plantation in Amazon rainforest near Santarem - deforestation for the agribusiness - economic development creating environmental degradation - isolated Brazil nut trees sentenced to death. Opening of a road where before there was a forest.

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Over 100 countries at COP26 pledge to end deforestation by 2030

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Jaguars face major threat from Amazon deforestation and fires

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Andre Penner/AP/Shutterstock (10753127a) Fire consumes land deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil Amazon Fires, Novo Progresso, Brazil - 23 Aug 2020

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Amazon fires have affected almost all the region's endangered species

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Cloud above the forests in Navado de Huilo, Columbia

Earth

Colombia's peace treaty accidentally sparks increase in deforestation

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Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs gave birth to the Amazon rainforest

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Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs gave birth to the Amazon rainforest

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Global tree loss is undermining tactics to address the climate crisis

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Global tree loss is undermining tactics to address the climate crisis

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Brazil is using the pandemic to weaken environmental protections

Environment

Brazil is using the pandemic to weaken environmental protections

The Brazilian government has passed 57 legislative acts that weaken environmental protections, half of which occurred during the covid-19 pandemic

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Saving forests to fight climate change will cost $393 billion annually

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Rethinking your pension may just be the greenest thing you can do

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