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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro claimed on Friday that Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio financed fires being set in the Amazon rainforest, without presenting any evidence, the right-wing leaders latest broadside in casting blame over forest fires that have generated international concern. (Photo: File)

Brazil Prez claims cool guy' Leonardo DiCaprio paid money to WWF to...

Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly lashed out at various factions in casting blame for the forest fires.

30 Nov 2019 11:04 AM IST

Small-scale commercial farming of cocoa, for example, can also lead to the clearing of forests. (Photo: AFP)

2018 reports massive forest destruction

Tropical forest the size of England destroyed in 2018: report.

26 April 2019 10:39 AM IST

$Rather than waiting to respond to a famine after many have already died, the tech firms, including Amazon, \will use the predictive power of data to trigger funding\ to take action before it becomes a crisis, the World Bank and UN announced. (Representational image/ Photo: AFP)$ Technology

Amazon.com should share web domain name rights, Brazil says

The proposal would give Amazon.com the chance to show Amazon countries and public opinion that it is a fully...

4 April 2019 4:29 PM IST

Tensions have risen between France and Brazil after Macron tweeted that the fires burning in the Amazon basin amounted to an international crisis and should be discussed as a top priority at the G7 summit. (Photo: AFP)

Fires still erupting in Amazon; number of blazes in Brazil up 45 pc...

The Amazon is considered particularly important for its absorption of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

12 Sept 2019 2:05 PM IST

Presidents and ministers from seven Amazon countries met in Colombia on Friday to agree on measures to protect the worlds biggest rainforest, under threat from wildfires and rampant deforestation. (Photo: AFP)

Amazon nations meet in indigenous hut at Colombia over forest...

The summit took place in wake of an international outcry over raging fires that have devastated swaths of Amazon in...

7 Sept 2019 12:02 PM IST

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Humans arrived in Southeast Asia 20,000 years earlier: study

A barrage of dating techniques were applied to the sediment around the fossils in a cave in Indonesia.

10 Aug 2017 1:44 PM IST

Notes from a paradise

City artist Garima Gupta engages in a conversation about ecological damage in Papua New Guinea, through sketches and...

13 Feb 2017 12:26 AM IST