STORY: There’s a seemingly simple fix that could help solve the climate crisis: replanting trees in what were forests now stripped barren.But here in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the task is proving to be more difficult than it sounds.Reuters got an inside look into two of the largest reforestation initiatives in the country, which are operated by the nonprofits Rioterra and the Black Jaguar Foundation.And we found environmental groups facing a range of challenges…from lack of funding and extreme weather to violence and threats from hostile land-grabbers and farmers.Scientists generally agree that mass-scale reforestation could help slow global warming by trapping carbon dioxide in living trees.Such efforts could also restore wildlife habitats and help protect threatened species.In Brazil, replanting efforts are modest operations so far.Over the past decade, non-profit Rioterra has planted some 7 million trees in the Amazon – covering an area almost the size of Manhattan.Alexis Bastos is one of the group’s founders.Despite growing more trees than almost any group working in the Amazon, Bastos says it falls far well short of what is needed.“For the Amazon as a whole it is insignificant, but yes, we have already restored almost 6 thousand hectares in the past 10 years.”Black Jaguar is even more ambitious.It's a Brazilian and European nonprofit, and it hopes to spend at least $3.7 billion in the next 20 years restoring a forest area the size of Lebanon.Here is the group’s founder Ben Valks:“Our foundation has only one clear goal, is to help realize the Araguaia biodiversity corridor. He was knocked out and can't remember the event, but his mother recalls the electricity going through her body. Another person had keys in their pocket which heated up so intensely that their leg swelled.Ī 16-year old boy's necklace melted and shattered. Shards of the tree also hit a few of the family members a chunk hit a 13-year-old in the leg.
The tree dissipated the strike and then hit the people picnicking.Ĭlick here to subscribe to This Day in Weather History Three or four minutes after that strike, a bolt of lightning struck a tree near their eating area. Within three minutes, the group saw another flash of lightning. On Saturday, May 25, 1996, lightning struck a tree and fell on a group of picnickers in Pembroke Pines, Florida.Ī family was eating at four wooden picnic tables on a sunny day when they saw lightning strikes around 28 km away.
This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. Lightning hit a family causing a boy's necklace to melt and shatter
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