Tag: #Amazonfire
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Amazon fires ‘quicken Andean glacier melt’
Paris, Nov 28 (AFP/APP): Fires in the Amazon rainforest are likely to increase the rate of melting of Andean glaciers, potentially disrupting water supply for tens of millions of people, scientists said on Thursday. Images of smoke-filled horizons from blazes burning out of control across the Amazon basin made headlines around the world earlier this…
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230 big investors urge firms to act on Amazon fires
ANKARA, Sep 19 (XINHUA/APP):Over 200 institutional investors, representing $16.2 trillion assets under management, called on companies to take urgent action against the devastating rainforest fires which started last month. “It is with deep concern that we follow the escalating crisis of deforestation and forest fires in Brazil and Bolivia,” the investors said in a statement…