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The Yanomami People
The ‘Dalai Lama of the Rainforest’ Davi Kopenawa of the Yanomami tribe called for world support to bring pressure on the Brazilian government to save the Amazonian forests. The Yanomami People The Yanomami tribe is a group of indigenous people who live in an area spanning the border region between Venezuela and Brazil. They live ..
Topics: Alternative Nobel Prize • Davi Kopenawa • Gold • Rainforest • Yanomami
Forest Fires of Amazon
A slew of forest fires have appeared in the rainforests of the Amazon, which causing large parts of the forest to go up in flames and has destroyed biomass accumulated over millions of years of accumulated biomass in an instance. While forest fires in the Amazon are not new, this year a record 73000 forest ..
Topics: Amazon rainforest • Biomass • Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere • Climate forcing • Climate forcing agents • deforestation • Forest • Nature • Old-growth forest • Rainforest • Rainforests • Wildfire