In her third blog in the Amazon on the Brink series, LAB author and editor Sue Branford looks at the sharpening political divisions which threaten the efforts of relatively progressive governments in recent years in Colombia, Peru and Brazil to prioritize nature, halt extraction of oil and minerals and save the Amazon. The survival of […]
In the second of her Amazon on the Brink blogs, LAB author and editor Sue Branford looks at the climate science and relays the warning from veteran climatologist James Hanson about the dangers of a ‘super El Niño’, and the consequences for the rainforest. Fires, though often set deliberately, are now a greater danger than deforestation.
In the first of a new series of blogs, LAB author and editor Sue Branford returns to the subject closest to her heart: the survival of the Amazon rainforest and the communities and peoples that live there – a matter of crucial importance not only for themselves, for Brazil and the other countries of the Amazon basin, but for the planet and the climatic and ecosystems on which human life depends.
