Smoke rises over cleared forest on the Amazon frontier in Rondonia, Brazil — where deforestation spiked 92 percent in May 2025 and 51 percent of clearing hit recently burned land. Each fire scar becomes a footnote in a longer ledger of loss. [Photo: NASA / Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain]

Amazon Deforestation Soars 92%: Brazil’s October 2026 Election Decides Future

Amazon deforestation jumped 92 percent in May 2025, with 51 percent of clearing in burned areas. Brazil's October 4, 2026 presidential vote decides forest protection and the 17 percent tipping margin.

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A Greenland shark during an offshore marine survey. [Photo: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research / Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain]

Greenland shark bounty: why the $45 payout for 1,000 animals was stopped

If you buy sustainably certified cold-water halibut from North Atlantic fisheries, a municipal dispute off Greenland’s coast came close to threatening the supply chain that certifies it. The Avannaata municipal council approved a bounty to cull 1,000 Greenland sharks — the oldest living vertebrates on Earth — before Greenland’s fisheries authorities stepped in to stop

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