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‘Audacious’ reforestation effort grows in Brazil

By Bruno Vander Velde

February 7, 2023

A bold initiative to regrow 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon has made substantial progress despite some unexpected hurdles, according to an upcoming report.

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Study: How years of wildfires have devastated the Amazon

By Kiley Price

September 1, 2021

For the first time, scientists have quantified the impact these fires have had on animals and plants in the Amazon over the past two decades. And according to their new study published today in Nature, these species are suffering — but there is still time to protect them.