Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario that sees the rainforest spewing carbon into the atmosphere and speeding up climate change even more

Learn more about BI Prime View online           Science Select           Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario that sees the rainforest spewing carbon into the atmosphere and speeding up climate change even more   Fears for the Amazon's future have been heightened under Brazil's new far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, who encourages industry in the region.   READ MORE           Wildfires are blazing through the Amazon rainforest in record numbers, burning through a tropical forest vital to countering climate change   The unprecedented surge in wildfires has occurred, as right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro vowed to develop the Amazon region for farming and mining.   READ MORE           The blazes in the Amazon are so big they can be seen from space. One map shows the alarming scale of the fires.   The Brazilian Amazon is burning at a record rate. Nearly 10,000 fires have sparked in the past week, and satellites have spotted the blazes.   READ MORE             England's housing crisis has gotten so bad that children are living in shipping containers, doing homework on the toilet, and eating on floors. Nearly 400,000 more kids could be homeless soon.   The Children's Commissioner's Office found families living in cramped shipping containers, bed and breakfasts, and converted office buildings.   READ MORE           A day in the life of a nurse who works 10-hour shifts in an NYC cancer unit keeping patients comfortable in the midst of a national drug shortage   Business Insider shadowed Czarina Cecilio, a registered nurse at the Multiple Myeloma Center in New York City, for one day.   READ MORE           The 'lungs of the planet' are burning at a record rate. If too much of the Amazon disappears, that 'dieback' could turn the land into a savanna.   Both deforestation and wildfires in the Amazon rainforest have broken records this summer. Scientists warn that, after a point, it might not recover.   READ MORE           20 years after 'The Matrix' hit theaters, another sequel is in the works. Many scientists and philosophers still think we're living in a simulation.   "The Matrix" directors have announced another sequel. Twenty years after the original movie, some scientists still think we're living in a simulation.   READ MORE           30 photos show what life is like in the hottest inhabited city on earth   Mecca in Saudi Arabia is the world's hottest inhabited place. Here are 30 photos showing what life is like there.   READ MORE           Elon Musk is walking back his 'nuke Mars' theory and instead proposing to launch thousands of satellites to warm the red planet   Elon Musk said he thinks that vaporizing Mars' ice caps would produce a greenhouse effect, warming the planet to Earth-like temperatures.   READ MORE           99% of the fires in the Amazon rainforest were started by humans, one expert says — here's why they've gotten so out of control   Farmers regularly set fires to clear new tracts of land. Scientists and environmentalists think they're behind this month's record-setting blazes.   READ MORE           Was this email forwarded to you? SUBSCRIBE NOW     Share this     You received this email because you signed up to this Business Insider newsletter using the email: nguyenvu1187.love5@blogger.com   Email preferences Unsubscribe TERMS OF SERVICE PRIVACY POLICY 1 Liberty Plaza, 8th Floor. New York, NY 10006