‘A Miracle’: Gran Abuelo In Chile Could Be World’s Oldest Living Tree
"100ft alerce has estimated age of 5,484, more than 600 years older than Methuselah in California".
Source: Guardian, 09/27/2022
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Author Shares Unorthodox Look at the Ways of Water
How water moves through the global ecosystem and shapes our landscapes is the subject of a must-read new book by writer Erica Gies, according to BookShelf editor Tom Henry. A significant part of water’s story is how humanity invariably fails when trying to manipulate it. But hope may reside with Gies’ various “water detectives,” who explore how to “let water go where it wants to go.”
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Brazil Faces Two Contrasting Legacies For Amazon In October’s Elections
"Polls indicate that Brazil’s presidential election in October will go to a runoff between incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in a duel likely to decide the fate of the Amazon Rainforest."
Source: Mongabay, 09/13/2022
"A Failure Of Enforcement"
"Deforesters are plundering the Amazon. Brazil is letting them get away with it."
Source: Washington Post, 09/06/2022
"Chileans Resoundingly Reject New Progressive Constitution"
"Chileans resoundingly rejected a new constitution to replace a charter imposed by the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet 41 years ago, dealing a stinging setback to President Gabriel Boric who argued the document would have ushered in a new progressive era."
Source: AP, 09/06/2022
"Brazil’s ‘Man Of The Hole’ Dies, And An Amazonian Tribe Is No More"
"The last surviving member of an isolated Amazonian tribe died this month, Brazil’s national Indigenous agency, FUNAI, has announced."
Source: Washington Post, 08/30/2022
A Melting Glacier, An Imperiled City And A Farmer’s Fight For Climate Justice
"A Peruvian farmer is suing one of Europe’s biggest emitters. The case could set a precedent for holding polluters accountable for harm to the planet."
Source: Washington Post, 08/30/2022
"On Chile Rivers, Native Spirituality And Development Clash"
"Mist suddenly arose from the Truful Truful River as it flowed below the snow-covered Llaima volcano, and Victor Curin smiled at the sun-dappled water spray. A leader in one of the Indigenous communities by the river’s shores in the Chilean Andes, Curin took it as a sign that the waterfall’s ngen — its owner and protector spirit — approved of his visit and prayer that mid-July morning."
Source: AP, 08/24/2022
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