Infrastructure plans imperil Latin America’s forests: Analysis
2020-09-02 15:34
A wave of planned “mega” infrastructure projects across the tropics of Latin America threatens the region’s forests and the biodiversity and carbon they contain, a group of scientists warned Aug. 26 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. As the COVID-19 pandemic decimates communities, particularly those of Indigenous groups across the tropics, […]
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