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#Facebook #ClimateChange #AmazonRainforest

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1) @Facebook is fueling the destruction of the #Amazon rainforest. The #Amazon’s hydrological engine plays a major role in maintaining the global & regional #climate...

2) Water released by plants into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration and to the ocean by the rivers, influences world #climate and the circulation of ocean currents. This works as a feedback mechanism, as the process also sustains the regional climate on which it depends...

3) What is happening in the #Amazon?
Scientists are noticing something disturbing in the #AmazonRainforest - the hydrological engine is beginning to fail. One factor is the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climatic phenomenon which influences much of the climatic...

4) variability in Latin America. Although ENSO events are a natural occurrence, human-induced climate change is expected to increase their frequency in the future. ENSO is associated with dry conditions in northeast #Brazil, the northern #Amazon,

5) the Peruvian-Bolivian Altiplano and Pacific coast of Central America. Meanwhile, southern #Brazil and northwestern #Peru have exhibited unusually wet conditions during ENSO events...

6) Another factor is #deforestation, which in addition to removing forest cover causes a dramatic change in rainfall patterns and distribution. These findings imply that current deforestation in the #Amazon has already altered the regional #climate...

7) Parts of #Brazil's #AmazonRainforest are being illegally sold on #Facebook. The protected areas include national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples. Some of the plots listed via Facebook's classified ads service are as large as 1,000 football pitches...

8) The country's government is unwilling to halt the sales. The land invaders feel very empowered to the point that they are not ashamed of going on #Facebook to make illegal land deals. Anyone can find the illegally invaded plots by...

9) typing the Portuguese equivalents for search terms like "forest", "native jungle" and "timber" into #Facebook Marketplace's search tool, and picking one of the Amazonian states as the location. Some of the listings feature satellite images and GPS co-ordinates. Many of the...

10) sellers openly admit they do not have a land title, the only document which proves ownership of land under Brazilian law. The illegal activity is being fuelled by #Brazil's cattle ranching industry. #Deforestation in the Brazilian #Amazon is at a 10-year high,

11) and #Facebook's Marketplace has become a go-to site for sellers. For its part, Facebook claims trying to deduce which sales are illegal would be too complex a task for it to carry out itself, and should be left to the local judiciary and other authorities,

12) and it does not appear to see the issue as being serious enough to warrant halting all Marketplace land sales across the #Amazon.

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