Heavy smoke billowed over Brazil’s Amazon jungle as the fire roamed the Brazilian rainforest, discarded trees spewed across the scorched earth like dead matches, scorched and black.
Fires in Brazil’s rainforest increased in August due to the rise of extremes and far higher than the historic average for the third year in a row this month under right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, according to government data released this week.
Satellites recorded 28.060 fires in Brazil’s Amazon region in August – a decrease of 4% from the same month in 2020, when fire levels were probably at their highest level in a decade according to Brazil’s National Space Research Agency (AISR).
All this was last seen ten years ago, before Bolsonaro came to power.
The right-wing president was widely criticized for pushing development in the Amazon while undermining environmental conservation.
Scientists fear the rapid rate of destructive storms could sabotage global attempts to combat climate change.
The former army chief has attempted to curb indigenous land rights — which protect vast parts of rainforest — disempowered environmental officials by passing enforcement responsibility on to the military, which has failed to prevent destruction.
The WHO classified mu as a coronavirus ‘variant of interest’.
If there’s good evidence mu is more serious and beginning to overtake other variants such as delta, it might be upgraded to a “variant of concern”. | @griffo762014 writeshttps://t.co/YiM6HZcee6
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An oncologist told The Wire Science that connections between dietary interventions and cancer are among the toughest to figure out. | @tvpadma https://t.co/IRpxkFitp7
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The evolution of altruism is a paradox that Charles Darwin and all his successors have had to grapple with. | @ragh_gadagkar https://t.co/Z7P5m1srEB
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Once reputed as birthplace of the historic ‘Chipko Andolan’, Raini village has of late been in the news for the fragility of its own existence.
It’s not hard to see why the region is as fragile and vulnerable to change as it is. | @MallikaBG @cprajendranhttps://t.co/i4TjbP7zTa
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A study in Israel compared 16,000 people who had COVID-19 but didn’t get vaccinated with an equal number of people who were fully vaccinated but weren’t infected.
The results show chances of a breakthrough infection were 13-times higher than reinfection.https://t.co/fjSy8h7VYP
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There is no scientific way to erect a hydroelectric power project in the Garhwal Himalaya because erecting such a project itself would be unscientific. | @MallikaBG @cprajendranhttps://t.co/i4TjbP7zTa
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There is no consensus in the expert community on whether aspartame – one of the world’s most widely used artificial sweeteners – causes cancer in humans. | @tvpadma https://t.co/IRpxkFitp7
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In conversation with Karan Thapar for The Wire, Dr Rajeev Jayadevan said Kerala should ramp up contact-tracking and call off its night curfew and weekend lockdown.https://t.co/FIPcRpnJjr
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While questioning the need to expand Haryana Government’s waste-to-energy project, environmental groups pointed out that the project will add little power compared to the national capacity and pose grave health risks to people living nearby. | @gaurav5173https://t.co/fHLuDv1k4L
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A real-world observational study in Israel has concluded that natural immunity, gained through a previous infection of COVID-19, is likely more protective against infections of the delta variant, than a full vaccination regime. | @tallguywalking writeshttps://t.co/fjSy8h7VYP
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Far fewer deaths are certified in rural areas like Gadchiroli.
Then there is the dubious quality of data – starting from the fact that not all doctors are well trained to certify deaths. | @dishashetty20 https://t.co/bVdj6RwFbZ
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The government has allocated airwaves in restricted frequency bands to Reliance Jio.
The result is signal interference that astronomers say is affecting use of the telescope and their work.https://t.co/hUH0p6lVYF
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The top court ousted the Assam chief secretary and Oil India Ltd’s managing director from a 10-member panel set up by NGT.
A 5-member committee would substitute it and suggest remedial action after assessing the environmental damage caused by the fire.https://t.co/RhiFJQoqkr
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The University of East Anglia has implemented an interactive voice response system to both share and collect community knowledge of wild foods. | @Abi_Twits#NationalNutritionWeek https://t.co/SnDPzTPsKX
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The World Meteorological Organisation has released what it has called a comprehensive review of mortality and economic losses from weather, water and climate extremes.
The review surveys some 11,000 disasters occurring between 1970 and 2019.https://t.co/deoP39rGqc
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