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Amazon gold mining drives malaria surges among Indigenous peoples
The troubling connection between deforestation, mining, and malaria is poised to create especially bad outbreaks in 2020.
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Amazon gold mining drives malaria surges among Indigenous peoples
The troubling connection between deforestation, mining, and malaria is poised to create especially bad outbreaks in 2020.
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Saharan dust plumes are a crucial part of Earth's biology and climate
The Saharan dust plume is a supersized version of ones that cross the Atlantic all the time, ferrying particles that irritate lungs but also fertilize plant and ocean life.
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The grand old trees of the world are dying, leaving forests younger and shorter
The effects on wildlife and the ability of forests to store CO2 from fossil fuels could be enormous.
Madagascar’s famous lemurs could lose their rainforest by 2080
Deforestation and climate change could wipe out much of the island's rainforests, a new model says - but society is not powerless to stop it.
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Climate change driving entire planet to dangerous 'global tipping point‘
Scientists "don’t think people realize how little time we have left,” to stop irreversible and disastrous changes to Earth’s climate systems. But there is hope.
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Inside the search for Africa’s carbon time bomb: A huge peatland
Journey into the wilds of the Congo rain forest with scientists trying to locate a shockingly large peatland so that they can help to preserve it.
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