🌱 Has the agricultural boom in the cerrado gone too far?
“If deforestation in the Cerrado continues at this rate, it will lose its historic role in absorbing and storing carbon. It becomes more vulnerable. In practice, this means that biodiversity could be lost.”
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The statement comes from Jean Ometto, agronomist at the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe). In a special report to the newspaper Financial Times, he questionwhether the boom in agriculture in the biome has not gone too far.
According to the newspaper, the region is very important for stopping global warming.
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🌳 Crimes of violence soar in the Amazon
According to data from the Brazilian Public Security Forum (FBSP) report, violence in the Amazon region has increased in relation to the country's average.
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A 2022 edition of the Forum Yearbook, pointed out that lethal violence in the Amazon was 38% higher than in other regions.
In an interview with G1, sociologist Renato Sérgio de Lima, director-president of the Brazilian Public Security Forum, stated that The perception of the majority, especially those living in the Amazon, is that the Brazilian State has no control over the region and is unable to contain crime..
“Any development project for the Amazon must consider the need to recover territories from the hands of factions and militias, prevent violence and confront crime, which, for the population, is not being done by the government. Therefore, there is no socio-environmental investment that can cope”, said Lima.
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A survey commissioned by the Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS) to PoderData – and carried out among 3 thousand voters across the country between 28 and 30 July – revealed that 81% of voters believe that presidential candidates should have the protection of the Amazon Forest among their prioritiessystem. (G1)
According to the survey, for 65% of those interviewed, the federal government is not working to combat land grabbing, drug trafficking, illegal logging and other crimes in the Amazon.
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☀️ 'Extreme heat belt' will cover central US in 30 years
In 30 years, the United States will develop an “extreme heat belt”, which will run from the state of Louisiana, in the south, to Lake Michigan, in the north, crossing the Midwest of the country, according to a report. non-profit organization report First Street Foundation, released this Monday (16).
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“We have to prepare for the inevitable,” Matthew Eby, the organization’s founder, told AFP. “The consequences will be dire.”
According to the projection, this area – home to more than 100 million Americans and covering a quarter of the country – will experience at least one day of extreme heat per year by 2053, with a wind chill of more than 51°C.
The Midwestern United States would be particularly affected due to its distance from the sea, although extreme heat will also hit smaller regions of the East Coast and Southern California, according to the document.
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Heat is the meteorological phenomenon that kills the most in the United States, surpassing floods and hurricanes.
A First Street Foundation bases its projections on a moderate scenario from UN climate experts (IPCC), in which greenhouse gas emissions will peak in the 2040s, before declining.
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🔥 Fire in Spain burns around 10.000 hectares
Almost 300 firefighters were needed to fight a huge fire in the province of Alicante, in southeastern Spain. The fire has already consumed around 10.000 hectares in a mountainous and difficult-to-access area, authorities said on Tuesday (16).
The fire started with lightning in Vall d'Ebo, in the province of Alicante, on the night of last Saturday (13).
Since then, it has spread rapidly, with the help of strong winds, and forced the displacement of more than 1.000 residents of the region, the government of the Valencia region said.
Spain has so far suffered 391 fires this year, fueled by very high temperatures, sometimes above 40 degrees, and persistent drought.
According to the latest data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), Fires have burned more than 270.000 hectares this year in Spain, Europe's worst-affected country.
The fires in Spain were especially devastating this year, as they have destroyed more than triple the area burned in 2022 so far in 2021, when there were 84.827 hectares.
(With information from AFP)
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