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Brazil election could decide Amazon fate

Bolsonaro "derided Indigenous people, environmentalists and science" while weakening environmental protections

Salon

'Beautiful and terrifying': how artist Richard Mosse brings us the vast, significant and urgent story of the Amazon's destruction

Review: Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre, NGV International.

The Conversation

The populist climate threat

Reactionary populism is now the biggest obstacle to tackling climate change. With outright climate denial no longer an option, populist politicians have increasingly positioned themselves as climate doubters and delayers, and this new approach is proving to be quite insidious. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global greenhouse-gas…

Bangkok Post

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In a Colombian national park, pictographs and pristine nature point the way toward a more hopeful future

Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Natural Park is a natural, historical and cultural wonder. Located in the northwestern part of the Colombian Amazon, it covers 43,000 square kilometres and contains what are probably some of the most ancient traces of human occupation in the Americas, with tens of thousands of pictographs in…

The Conversation

Fate of the Amazon in the balance as Brazil’s presidential race heads to a runoff

Brazil’s presidential race will go to a second round after neither candidate clinched the overall majority needed to win.

The New Daily

Brazil election: why was Sunday’s result so disappointing for the left?

Closer than expected result in first round of voting means Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro face runoff

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: Bolsonaro is down in Brazil’s election – but not out

In today’s newsletter: Brazilians will go to the polls again after leftist former president Lula won the first vote but failed to secure a majority over far right incumbent

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In Amazon, indigenous Brazilians vote by boat

Manaus (Brazil) (AFP) - In beaded headbands, a group of indigenous Brazilians is boating across a tributary of the Amazon river, flashing the same hand sign on their way to vote: "L" for Lula.

AFP

In Brazilian Amazon, a 1,000-mile voyage so people can vote

Sunday is election day in Brazil

The Independent UK

Richard Mosse returns to National Gallery of Victoria with Broken Spectre, filmed in the Amazon rainforest

A monumental new artwork co-commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria documents the pre-eminent environmental disaster of our times in a startling new way — while being disarmingly beautiful.

ABC News

How teenager Juliane Koepcke survived a plane crash and solo 11-day trek out of the Amazon

The sole survivor of a plane crash, Juliane Koepcke found herself totally alone in the Amazon rainforest. But this 17-year-old was no ordinary teenager.

ABC News

Worst Brazil forest fires in a decade, yet election silence

September has come and gone, marking another painful milestone for the world's largest rainforest

The Independent UK

Brazil's election could determine the fate of the Amazon after record deforestation

Under President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection in Sunday's vote, forest clearing and wildfires have surged in the Amazon.

WEKU

‘You can’t unsee this’: Richard Mosse’s all-consuming plea to save the Amazon

Across a 20-metre panoramic screen in ultra-high resolution, visitors bear witness to environmental degradation – in a piece that overwhelms the senses

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Salon

The fate of the Amazon at stake

Polls show left-wing former president Lula ousting incumbent Jair Bolsonaro on October 2

WEKU

What you need to know about Brazil's presidential election

As one of the world's largest democracies heads to the polls on Sunday, here are the main candidates and issues in the Brazilian election.

The Guardian - UK

Fate of Amazon rests on Brazil election, say experts

Further destruction under Bolsonaro could push vital rainforest past irreversible tipping point

The Independent UK

Why the West fears Bolsonaro could ignore Brazil election result OLD REDIRECTED

World Affairs Editor Kim Sengupta on widespread concern that Brazil’s president might cling to power and trigger a violent confrontation

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Daily Mirror

How to save the Amazon rainforest - from cutting down on paper to eating less beef

There are fears that if Brazil's Prime Minister Jair Bolsonaro wins a second term, there will be more destruction of the Amazon leading to further problems with catastrophic climate change

The Conversation

Indigenous defenders stand between illegal roads and survival of the Amazon rainforest – elections in Brazil and Peru could be a turning point

The Ashéninka woman with the painted face radiated a calm, patient confidence as she stood on the sandy banks of the Amonia River and faced the loggers threatening her Amazonian community.

AFP

High stakes for climate-change race in Brazil vote

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - The image would indelibly mark President Jair Bolsonaro's term: the sky over Sao Paulo turning dark at 3:00 pm as smoke from fires in the Amazon rainforest engulfed Brazil's biggest city.

Reuters

Peru indigenous groups block river in the Amazon after oil spill

Peruvian indigenous groups were blocking a large river in the country's Amazon region on Wednesday in protest over a crude oil spill of an estimated 2,500 barrels in the world's largest rainforest, the government said.

Daily Mirror

Amazon rainforest being torched at highest rate in TWELVE years putting planet in danger

Mirror reporter Nada Farhoud travelled to the Amacro region of Brazil to witness firsthand the 'lungs of the world' being torched by land-grabbers as President Jair Bolsonaro allows the crisis to spiral

The Guardian - UK

World’s central banks financing destruction of the rainforest

Corporate bonds intended to inject liquidity into markets profited companies engaged in deforestation

AFP

Indigenous activists raise climate awareness on sidelines of UNGA

New York (AFP) - Uyukar Domingo Peas, an Ecuadorian Indigenous activist, says if there are still "reservoirs of natural resources" in the world, it is "because we have protected them for thousands of years."

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