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Roraima—Brazil’s northernmost state—has a wet climate, which helps rainforests thrive and suppresses the natural occurrence of forest fires, even during the dry season. Nonetheless, remote sensing scientists have observed fires in this northern Amazon region for as long as satellite observations have been available, especially during the drier months of October through March. Most are management fires, ignited for purposes such as burning pastures and agricultural areas or clearing rainforest.

In the second half of February 2024, NASA satellites observed unusually widespread and intense fire activity, according to multiple fire monitoring platforms, including the SERVIR Amazon Fire Dashboard, the Brazilian Space Agency’s Queimadas program, and NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).

Source: Amazon Forest Fires Rage in Roraima

I think I’m giving myself another chance. I need it. The worst that could happen is Success.

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• In the state of Mato Grosso, some of the country’s largest meatpackers are clearing parts of the Cerrado at an even faster rate than the Amazon Rainforest, a new report from U.K.-based NGO Global Witness says.
• Meatpackers JBS, Marfrig and Minerva have cut down nearly five times more of the state’s Cerrado than they have its Amazon. One in three cows that the companies purchased from the Cerrado had grazed on illegally deforested land.
• A major EU law regulating deforestation in supply chains is scheduled for review this year, and the Global Witness report said its language should be expanded to include “other wooded land” that would protect the Cerrado.

The cattle ranching industry in Brazil is deforesting one of the country’s largest ecosystems without proper authorization, often with the financial backing of major international banks…

Source: Major meatpackers are unlawfully deforesting Brazil’s Cerrado, report says – Stigmatis News

Some 62 samples from placentas taken from mothers post-birth in the University of New Mexico study showed that every single one contained microplastics, leading to concerns for human health

Source: Microplastics discovered in human placentas sparking fears for health of unborn babies – Stigmatis

Tras de la espera
siempre llega la hora,
de despedirse.

1/3/24 j.ll.folch

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We are the ones who have to create the world we want. No one is going to come to save us from our own indiscretions and lack of foresight. We are that which we seek.

© Norma Bobb-Semple 2024

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