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Indigenous Amazon communities use tech to protect the forest

AGreenLiving

Hundreds of Indigenous communities across South America help conserve nature. South America serves as home to about 40% of the world’s vegetation. Indigenous groups offer surveillance to areas of forests targeted for developments, farming, mining or logging.

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Welcome to the Pyrocene

Grist

Siberian fires moved north of their home territory and flared beyond the Arctic Circle. The Pantanal wetlands in central South America burned. Where fires were not visible, the lights of cities and of gas flares were: combustion via the transubstantiation of coal and gas into electricity. It generates raw power.