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Aerial view showing a deforested area of Amazonia rainforest in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil, on September 15, 2021. Nearly 80% of the Amazon rainforest has exhibited signs of loss since the early 2000s according to a recent study published on March 7 in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Climate Change.The data indicates that if climate change continues at the rate it is, the rainforest could be pushed "past critical thresholds," researchers noted. Scientists used satellite remote sensing data in order to pinpoint what they refer to as "resilience," or the ability for the forest to recover from environmentally tragic events like droughts or fires. Study authors found that the loss of resilience was found most commonly in areas closer to human activity. The area deforested in Brazil's Amazon also expanded to a 15-year high after a 22% jump from the prior year, according to official data published in November.The National Institute for Space Research’s Prodes monitoring system showed the Brazilian Amazon lost 13,235 square kilometers of rainforest in the 12-month reference period from Aug.

The P1 SARS-CoV-2 variant, which was first identified in Brazil, may be more than twice as transmissible as non-P.1 lineages, and it may lower protective immunity from non-P1 variants 21% to 46%, according to a study published yesterday in Science.From November 2020 to January 2021, the researchers conducted

vaccines against the coronavirus, providing a ray of hope for the rainforest’s biggest city whose health system is collapsing amid an increase in infections and dwindling oxygen supplies.Amazonas state Gov.

RIO DE JANEIRO – The Amazonian city of Manaus in Brazil began administering vaccines against the coronavirus, providing a ray of hope for the rainforest’s biggest city whose health system is collapsing amid an increase in infections and dwindling oxygen supplies.Amazonas state Gov. Wilson Lima led a ceremony that kicked off the vaccination campaign Monday night in Manaus, an isolated riverside city of 2.2 million people.Vanda Ortega, 33, a member of the Witoto ethnicity and a nurse technician, received the first dose of CoronaVac, a vaccine developed by Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company Sinovac.“I want to thank God and our ancestors,” said Ortega, who is also a volunteer nurse in her Indigenous community.

Covid mutation is behind an explosion of cases in the Amazon rainforest, scientists fear. Four Japanese travellers tested positive for the suspected new strain after returning from Brazil's Amazonas state.Scientists now believe the mutant emerged in the region which saw more coronavirus hospital admissions in the first week of 2021 than in December.

coronavirus variant believed to have originated in Brazil has been identified - here's everything you need to know about the strain. Prime Minister Boris Johnson today said he is "very concerned" about the new mutation, thought to affect healthy, young people.