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How to Save the Amazon
Listen to the people who live there, the slain journalist Dom Phillips advised.
CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places ...
FOX 13 Meteorologist Dave Osterberg explains how a certain method of mining gold is damaging the Amazon Rainforest.
"We saw a really big decline in biomass ... draws some parallels with the past two years, when much of the Amazon rainforest, under the influence of El Nino and the impact of climate change ...
Decades of ranching in the Amazon have earned Roque Quagliato, Brazil's "King of Cattle," great wealth — and some trouble.
Co-directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman, the documentary introduces us to several competing concerns: activists, logging interests and landowners.
"We saw a really big decline in biomass ... draws some parallels with the past two years, when much of the Amazon rainforest, under the influence of El Nino and the impact of climate change ...