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Editorial: Fate of Amazon rests in the hands of Brazil’s Lula

Last week, the world’s fourth-largest democracy swore in a new (and old) president after kicking its own second-rate Trumpian demagogue to the curb. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, better known simply as Lula, was sworn in on Jan. 1, his second time at the helm of the diverse…

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Norway says fund to reduce Amazon deforestation in Brazil back in business

Norway, the major donor to the Amazon Fund, said the initiative for backing forest protection had been re-activated now that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was back in office and vowing to halt deforestation.

Reuters

Lula's presidency builds up global hopes of saving Amazon rainforest

Hopes of protecting the Amazon rainforest from further destruction, at a time when the dual climate and biodiversity crises are commanding global attention, have got a sorely needed boost following the inauguration of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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Is there mercury in the fish we eat? Amazonians tap WhatsApp to find out

A community of Indigenous peoples worried that mercury used by gold miners was contaminating the fish they eat. So they created a DIY team to find out more.

WEKU

Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key post

Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday Sonia Guajajara as the nation’s first Indigenous person to head up a ministry

The Independent UK

Brazil’s Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister

President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed Amazon activist Marina Silva

The Independent UK

Brazil's Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed Amazon activist Marina Silva as environment minister

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‘Amazonia, you beauty!’ How the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira renewed the fight for Brazil’s forests

Six months on, is something positive coming from the killings that shocked the world?

The Guardian - UK

Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified

The electoral defeat of Jair Bolsonaro by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is good news for world’s largest rainforest, but the situation remains perilous

The Guardian - UK

Colombia lost 86,985 hectares of forest through Sept. 30 this year -report

Colombia has lost 86,985 hectares (214,944 acres) of Amazon jungle in the first nine months of the year while fires burned through swathes of felled areas, a local advocacy group said on Monday.

Reuters

Sônia Guajajara hails Brazil’s Indigenous ministry after Bolsonaro ‘turmoil’

The activist for native peoples says she will work to overturn the ‘catastrophic legacy’ from Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency

The Guardian - US

Explainer-What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

Tangled expanses of Amazon rainforest, high mountains of the Himalayas, and cloud-shrouded forests are just some of the unique landscapes contained within the world's most nature-rich nations. And protecting these ecosystems, experts say, could help save the planet.

Reuters

Witness to paradise being lost: my year in the dying Amazon

In the past 12 months I have learned that the mass extermination of the Amazon is a climate catastrophe – and much more

The Guardian - UK

The Amazon’s highway through hell – Richard Mosse’s best photograph

‘I took this on the Trans-Amazonian Highway, which runs through the heart of the rainforest. It is being burned to clear land, a process that kills everything. It felt like the end of the world’

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Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 8 – Memoria

Tilda Swinton is a florist attuned to surreal frequencies of the Amazon in Thai film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slowly beautiful and mysterious English-language debut

Reuters

Analysis-Protecting 30% of the planet to save nature is not as simple as it sounds

From the lush Amazon rainforest to the frigid Arctic Ocean, the world's landscapes — and all the wildlife they contain — are under threat, and the world needs to set aside a third of all land and sea territories to save them, U.N. experts say.

The Guardian - UK

Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 9 – Memoria

Tilda Swinton is a florist attuned to surreal frequencies of the Amazon in Thai film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slowly beautiful and mysterious English-language debut

Reuters

Ecuador's state oil firm says weather power outage hits hundreds of wells

Ecuadoran state oil firm Petroecuador on Monday said weather-related damage to a power line affected more than 700 wells in its most productive blocks in the country's Amazon region, further biting into its crude output.

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Revealed: Brazil goldminers carve illegal ‘Road to Chaos’ out of Amazon reserve

Aerial photos from reconnaissance mission reveal effort to smuggle excavators into Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory

The Guardian - UK

Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 – review

Beach meets jungle on this classy compilation of vintage cumbia

Reuters

Indigenous group denounces release of suspect in Amazon murder of British journalist, expert

An indigenous group from the area of the Amazon rainforest where British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were murdered in June on Thursday deplored the release of one of the suspects in the killing.

Reuters

Brazil risks losing control of the Amazon to organized crime, judge warns

Brazil runs the risk of losing control over its vast Amazon rainforest region to organized crime and traffickers who use the lawless region to smuggle drugs, a Supreme Court judge warned on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

‘Their vision needs to be shared’: the tiny shop championing the literature of the Amazon

Banca do Largo contains the world’s largest collection of titles by Amazonian writers – and its owner believes their Indigenous knowledge and voices should be more widely heard

WEKU

Rare good news from the Amazon: Gigantic fish are thriving again

Conservationists say a sustainable fishing program has helped the recovery of the local pirarucu — which can be up to 10-feet long and weigh 450 pounds.

The Guardian - UK

Crime scene: Inside the 9 December Guardian Weekly

Dangers still lurk in the Amazon. Plus: Saudi Arabia’s palace coup

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