Tag: Rainforest
Illegal leather: The role of German car manufacturers
background As of: April 6, 2024 3:44 p.m What do the high-quality leather seats of German luxury cars have to do with deforestation in the Amazon? This is revealed for…
Greenpeace: Gold prospectors destroy four football fields of rainforest a day
Greenpeace Gold prospectors destroy four football fields of rainforest a day View from a Brazilian Environmental Agency helicopter of an illegal mining camp during an operation to curb illegal mining…
Zombie plant: Researchers find fascinating fern species in the rainforest
In Panama, botanists have discovered a plant species in the rainforest that can still absorb nutrients from the soil through dead leaves. The plant species known as “Cyathea rojasiana” is…
Claudia Andujar in the Deichtorhallen: The Choir of the Jungle
Portraits of a people fighting for survival: Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen shows Claudia Andujar’s pictures of the Yanomami. source site
Amazon: When rainforest turns into savanna – knowledge
A tenth to almost half of the Amazon rainforest could come under such stress by 2050 that the areas transform into an unstable, lower forest or savannah. An international team…
Video: Treehouse classroom in the Amazon rainforest | STERN.de
The 32 meter high platform has a dual function: as a classroom and learning center for researchers and locals, it is intended to teach alternatives to illegal logging and gold…
Opening: Scar in Paradise: Mayan train rolls through Mexico’s rainforest
Beach, ruins, jungle: all of this can be found along the route of the new tourist railway in Mexico. Environmentalists criticize the mammoth project on the Yucatán Peninsula. Cave explorer…
Mexico’s scar in paradise: Mayan train rolls through the rainforest
Beach, ruins, jungle: all of this can be found along the route of the new tourist railway in Mexico. Environmentalists criticize the mammoth project on the Yucatán Peninsula. A German…
Brazil: Is the rainforest system overturning?
world mirror As of: December 3rd, 2023 1:17 p.m A lot is affecting the Amazon: the El Niño weather phenomenon, but also the consequences of climate change. The consequences are…
Beiersdorf, BASF and Henkel: How sustainable is our palm oil really? – Business
Palm oil is found in almost half of all supermarket products. The German companies promise their consumers that it comes from environmentally friendly production. But at least for Beiersdorf, rainforest…