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Carlos Nobre

Red and orange blazing fires in Amazon forest

Amazon fires push the forest closer to a dangerous tipping point

Environment

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon is on the rise since the election of President Jair Bolsonaro, who has backed farmers and corporations bent on turning old growth forest into soy fields and cattle ranches.

Amazon fires push the forest closer to a dangerous tipping point
A dry brown patch of land is dotted with trees

A 'Third Way' to save the Amazon: make the standing forest itself more valuable

The Amazon's carbon tipping point
A 'Third Way' to save the Amazon: make the standing forest itself more valuable
A muddy river runs through a green landscape. On one side are trees and a dense forest; the other is bare.

'Our wealth is the forest': Indigenous tribes are the last best hope for the Amazon

The Amazon's carbon tipping point
'Our wealth is the forest': Indigenous tribes are the last best hope for the Amazon