Time_USA_-_23_09_2019

‘If the Amazon is

destroyed, it will be

impossible to control

global warming.’

—Ricardo Galvão,

official fired by Brazilian President Bolsonaro

from the agency that monitors deforestation

The Peruvian Andes have lost nearly
half their glacier-ice surface area
since the 1970s, impacting hundreds
of thousands who rely on glacier water
for agriculture and hydropower

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Longer and more frequent droughts

in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala

and Nicaragua are among the factors

driving people from their homes,

northward to Mexico and the U.S.

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In recent years, flooding exacerbated

by sea-level rises caused damage

of about 60% of the GDP of Guyana,

where people live mostly on the coast

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Deforested tropical lands (mostly in

the Brazilian Amazon) account for

more carbon emissions than any

country except China and the U.S.

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Flash flooding and landslides, like

the 2017 Mocoa disaster that killed

over 300 people, are now common on

South America’s northwestern coast

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The Patagonian ice fields that
straddle the border between Chile and
Argentina are melting at some of the
highest rates on the planet

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