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  1. Mar 2024
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  3. Jan 2024
  4. Nov 2023
  5. Oct 2023
    1. Der Tod vieler Flussdelfine in Amazonien ist eine weiteres Signal dafür, dass das ganze Ökosystem aus dem Gleichgewicht geraten ist. Die Erhitzung beschleunigt die in El Niño-Jahren üblichen Verdunstungsvorgänge. Viele Flüsse sind wegen Niedrigwasser nicht mehr schiffbar. Interview mit dem Geologen Pedro Luiz Côrtes. https://taz.de/Geologe-ueber-Amazonas-Duerre/!5960544/

  6. Nov 2019
  7. Oct 2015
    1. Mining and oil companies generally earn a bad reputation for their Amazon activities, but projects devised in the name of “sustainability” can have a negative impact too. Think in particular of the programme of hydroelectric dams being rolled out across Brazil. Belo Monte, the world’s fourth largest hydroelectric dam, is being built across a southern tributary of the Amazon, for instance. It has already caused the influx of tens of thousands of workers, with severe strain on local social relations. Its impact on a vast ecosystem – a major hydrological basin – will be monumental.

      This article accounts for Indigenous resistance in Amazonia. Large corporations continue to perpetuate the structural genocide of indigenous populations.