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• ‘Winter is disappearing’: South America hit by ‘brutal’ unseasonal heatwave

  03-08-2023 19:57
  
  Buenos Aires records hottest start to August in 117 years, Chile sees highs towards 40F and Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil also bakeNow should be South America’s bleak midwinter, but several parts of the continent are experiencing an extraordinary unseasonal heatwave that scientists believe offers a disturbing glimpse of a future of extreme weather.Argentina’s riverside capital, Buenos Aires, this week recorded its hottest 1 August in 117 years. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘More in hope’: lessons from our tiny reforestation scheme in the Amazon

  03-08-2023 14:06
  
  Four years in, it has become clearer that the future of the forest and the climate crisis is down to politicsUntil I moved to the Amazon, I assumed a sapling would grow into a tree as long as it had water, sunshine and decent soil. Now I am starting to realise the survival of plants needs political nourishment too. And that is sorely lacking.That’s true here in Brazil, though there have been some encouraging signs of late. It was true when I lived in the UK, since when things have, if anyt
  
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