Scientists from several countries have detected record concentrations of heavy metals in fish organisms from the Amazon Ecuador, a phenomenon related to the increase in industrial and artisanal extraction of natural resources in this jungle, mainly gold from river beds. The experts also considered that these new pollution patterns increase the silent threats against the […]
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Climate change: the Amazon is in mortal danger and could disappear by 2050
Half of the Amazon could suffer irreversible alterations and even disappear by 2050, concludes an international team of researchers after evaluating the critical thresholds that can cause profound changes in the region and push the largest tropical forest in the world to a point of “no return” that will impact the global climate Land. The […]
Jeff Bezos sells $2 billion in Amazon shares
Businessman Jeff Bezos, founder of amazon, has sold about 12 million shares of the company at a price of between US$168 and US$171 per share, according to documents sent to stock market regulators on Friday. This waythe total value of the shares sold exceeds US$2,040 million, distributed in five blocks. According to the AFP agency, […]
Ecuador: illegal mining devastated almost 800 hectares in 2023 in the Punino River
The illegal minery depredated a total of 784 hectares of jungle forests in 2023 alone in the Punino River area, one of the enclaves most affected by this illicit gold extraction activity in the Amazon of Ecuador. This was reported this Thursday by the Andean Amazon Monitoring Project (MAAP), an initiative that monitors the progress […]
Ecuador foresees 5,000 additional barrels of oil with new wells in the Amazon
Ecuador foresees additional production of about 5,000 barrels of Petroleum additional per day until the end of 2024, thanks to the drilling of nine wells on a platform in the Amazon province of Orellana. The state company Petroecuador reported this Thursday that its technicians began drilling the first of those nine wells in the Sacha […]
Historic drought made it difficult to rescue endangered Amazonian turtle eggs
The historic drought suffered by Amazon since September made it difficult to rescue the eggs of turtles threatened in the largest rainforest in the world, but it did not stop activists fighting to save the species in Brazil They will commemorate the release this weekend of 800 baby chelonians. The release of the small chelonians […]
Climate change favored drought in the Amazon in 2023, according to a study
He climate change greatly favored the devastating drought that hit the Amazonone of the most important ecosystems in the world, to stabilize the global climate, threatened by the global warming. That historic drought, between June and November 2023, affected millions of people throughout the Amazon basin, fueling enormous forest fires, causing the main water courses […]
The house where Jeff Bezos founded Amazon is for sale
The house where Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, the colossus of online commerce, is for sale and its buyer will get a piece of internet history. Bezos and his wife at the time, MacKenzie Scott, were renting that one-story, three-bedroom house near Seattle in the mid-1990s, when they started selling books online from their garage. According […]
The 2.2% of the most common tree species cover 50% of the forests
A collaborative study of 356 international scientists has identified almost identical patterns of tree diversity in the tropical forests of the planet, regardless of the continent, and an important key: only 2.2% of tree species, the most common, represent 50% of all trees. The research, whose conclusions are reported today in the magazine Nature, is […]
Fires in the Amazon fell by 10.8% in 2023 despite its historic drought
The Amazon Brazilian registered 98,646 forest fires in 2023, 10.8% less than in 2022 (115,033), despite the historic drought that the biome faced in the final months of last year, when fire outbreaks broke out, official sources reported this Tuesday. The number of heat sources measured last year by the satellites of the National Institute […]