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• Environmental impact assessments for development projects in Amazon countries have evolved from highly biased, centralized procedures to more rigorous processes that aim to avoid conflicts of interest.
• EIAs have also become increasingly focused on the social impacts of development and on how to mitigate them or compensate affected communities.
• Large-scale development projects are generally reviewed by national-level entities while less controversial initiatives can be attributed to regional governments.

• Environmental impact assessments for development projects in Amazon countries have evolved from highly biased, centralized procedures to more rigorous processes that aim to avoid conflicts of interest.
• EIAs have also become increasingly focused on the social impacts of development and on how to mitigate them or compensate affected communities.
• Large-scale development projects are generally reviewed by national-level entities while less controversial initiatives can be attributed to regional governments.

• Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are collaborating with local communities in the Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca, a protected Indigenous territory, to foster a ground-up reforestation strategy using native trees and carbon payments.
• The project involves about 30 plots totaling 100 hectares (247 acres) of land, giving participants full ownership of their trees.
• The approach is based on carbon-sequestration data and other scientific metrics collected from Smithsonian’s Agua Salud research site in Colón.
• The work also leans on economic analyses to ensure that reforestation projects can become reliable and sustainable livelihood strategies for Panama’s rural communities.

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• Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are collaborating with local communities in the Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca, a protected Indigenous territory, to foster a ground-up reforestation strategy using native trees and carbon payments.
• The project involves about 30 plots totaling 100 hectares (247 acres) of land, giving participants full ownership of their trees.
• The approach is based on carbon-sequestration data and other scientific metrics collected from Smithsonian’s Agua Salud research site in Colón.
• The work also leans on economic analyses to ensure that reforestation projects can become reliable and sustainable livelihood strategies for Panama’s rural communities.

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• Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are collaborating with local communities in the Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca, a protected Indigenous territory, to foster a ground-up reforestation strategy using native trees and carbon payments.
• The project involves about 30 plots totaling 100 hectares (247 acres) of land, giving participants full ownership of their trees.
• The approach is based on carbon-sequestration data and other scientific metrics collected from Smithsonian’s Agua Salud research site in Colón.
• The work also leans on economic analyses to ensure that reforestation projects can become reliable and sustainable livelihood strategies for Panama’s rural communities.

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• A new analysis of more than 70,000 wild animal species reveals that climate change is now the third-greatest threat to the planet’s wildlife, following overexploitation and habitat degradation.
• The study found that nearly 5% of the assessed species are threatened by climate change, with ocean invertebrates being particularly vulnerable to climate change-related threats, such as extreme temperatures, floods, droughts, storms and ocean acidification.
• The study warns that some animal populations, both on land and at sea, have already begun to collapse due to climate change-related events, and it’s now necessary to monitor mass die-offs to understand the impacts of climate change and predict future impacts.

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Important Correction

“Fossil fuels are the main driver of the climate crisis,” Wolf said. “Rapidly phasing out fossil fuels is essential if we’re going to prevent mass extinctions of animals and plants and maintain healthy wildlife populations and ecosystems with all the benefits they provide.”

This is dangerously incorrect. To "rapidly" phase out fossil fuels and not address the other factors contributing to the climate crisis would be suicidal for life on Earth.

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In a remote corner of North America, salmon and mining companies are vying for new territory.

The Tulsequah Glacier meanders down a broad valley in northwest British Columbia, 7 miles from the Alaska border. At the foot of the glacier sits a silty, gray lake, a reservoir of glacial runoff. The lake is vast, deeper than Seattle’s Space Needle is tall. But it didn’t exist a few decades ago, before 2 miles of ice had melted.

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In a remote corner of North America, salmon and mining companies are vying for new territory.

The Tulsequah Glacier meanders down a broad valley in northwest British Columbia, 7 miles from the Alaska border. At the foot of the glacier sits a silty, gray lake, a reservoir of glacial runoff. The lake is vast, deeper than Seattle’s Space Needle is tall. But it didn’t exist a few decades ago, before 2 miles of ice had melted.

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