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How the Amazon Rainforest is Becoming the Latest Global Warming Threat. Normally, the Amazon rainforest soaks up carbon dioxide, helping offset human carbon emissions and cool the planet.
However, worsening effects of global climate change brought two severe droughts in the past 5 years causing mass tree death and decay in the Amazon. This decay is now emitting dangerous levels of CO2 into an atmosphere that is already overloaded with it. Frequency of Droughts Shocks Scientists There are certain extremely severe drought periods that scientists understand to happen only once every 100 years.
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In the Peruvian Amazon, bites from mosquitos that carry the disease are 300 times as common in deforested areas as where forest has been left intact; similar effects have been found in Africa. This happens partly because cutting down trees produces bigger areas of forest edge, prime mosquito habitat, around the remaining stands, and partly because the cleared areas are hotter, without their shade, enabling the insects to live longer and breed faster. More indirectly, using artificial fertilisers on farms in Belize's hills increased the disease in the lowlands: the nutrients, washing down the rivers, created denser vegetation – a better breeding habitat – downstream.
Then there's schistosomiasis, infecting some 200 million people worldwide, second only to malaria in its devastating effect. Hunting and eating wild animals causes another range of diseases. Suara Sarawak: The Rape of Sarawak. A Netherlands-based environmental organization, Wetlands International, is charging in a new report that Malaysia is destroying its tropical rainforest at a rate three times faster than the rest of Asia combined, particularly in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak, with the expectation that “expansion of oil palm plantations may lead to the complete loss of these vast, unique forests by the end of this decade.”
Sarawak’s chief minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, has come in for international criticism on charges that he has sold off vast tracts of the state to international loggers to enrich his family. The Taib family has interests believed to be in the billions in Canada, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom as well as in scores of companies in Malaysia, according to The Sarawak Report, a UK-based NGO.
Malaysia has been largely shielded from criticism by the world’s environmental organizations, who have concentrated their firepower on Indonesia. Loss of unique species. Why Republican attacks on environment laws are flawed. In recent months, some in Congress have been waging a whole-scale war against the Environmental Protection Agency.
By now it has reached comical dimensions, with three separate bills aimed at preventing a so-called EPA "dust rule" that has never even existed. The spectacle would indeed be funny, if it wasn't deadly serious. Republicans in Congress and in the GOP presidential debates are seeking to defund an already cash-strapped EPA under the pretense of caring about the federal deficit and are trying to hamper the agency by arguing that its rules hurt the economy.
Quite to the contrary. We have 40 years of data to show that a cleaner environment goes hand in hand with solid economic growth. Harvard Professor Dale W. That's the moral equivalent of arguing for child labor laws by saying that keeping kids in school will increase their earnings as adults. Overall, benefits of the 1970 Clean Air Act exceed costs by a factor of 30 to 1. None of this is magic. Lin Firth launches campaign to save 'world's most threatened tribe' Survival International and Colin Firth make a video appeal on behalf of the Awá people of Brazil Link to video: Survival International: Save the Awá people A campaign to prevent illegal deforestation driving the world's most endangered tribe to extinction was launched on Wednesday with a short film featuring an appeal by the Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth .
The few hundred Awá surviving in the Brazilian Amazon are losing their forest home to illegal loggers , who have murdered tribe members, according to Survival International . In the film, Firth says: "The Awá's forest is being illegally cut for timber. When the loggers see them, they kill them. Their bows and arrows are no match for guns. Belo Monte dam construction – in pictures.