Politics and Amazonia’s fires
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This year’s Amazon fires have been worse than since 2010, scientists blame a government attitude which they say has encouraged deforestation. Government funded scientists have contributed anonymously to the finding – fearing for their jobs.
Food crops and fungus are not normally seen as compatible, but a mutually beneficial relationship between these organisms may help reduce the need for chemical fertilisers and combat climate change.
Hayabusa 2, the Japanese space mission is returning to earth after its mission to blast a crater in a distant asteroid.
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(Image: A Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) fire brigade member is seen as he attempts to control hot points during a fire. Credit: Reuters/Bruno Kelly)
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| 1:07.5 | where we're returning to the widespread wildfires in Brazil earlier this year. |
| 1:11.8 | A new evidence that accelerating forest clearance is to blame. |
| 1:15.7 | But some of the researchers finding this prefer to remain anonymous. |
| 1:19.5 | The government was saying that the fighters were natural, that was within the historical average. |
| 1:24.6 | We showed that the government was wrong. |
| 1:27.0 | And then those government workers, those people were afraid that something might happen to them. |
| 1:32.0 | But we're going underground as well to see fungal support networks that help plants to grow. |
| 1:38.3 | Ever since plants first came on to the terrestrial land surfaces, |
| 1:42.3 | they've been partners with fungi that live in the soil. |
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