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Pulitzer Center Update October 2, 2018

Sam Eaton Discusses the Amazon's Carbon Tipping Point with Boston Public Radio

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Mushrooming disaster: Thanks to logging, cattle ranching, and industrial agriculture, 16 percent of the Amazon has already been deforested. Image by Sam Eaton. Brazil, 2018.
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Tropical forests are tipping from carbon sink to source, threatening a crucial hedge against runaway...

Boston Public Radio interviewed Sam Eaton. Image courtesy of Boston Public Radio. United States, 2018.
Boston Public Radio interviewed Sam Eaton. Image courtesy of Boston Public Radio. United States, 2018.

Boston Public Radio interviewed Sam Eaton about his ongoing project covering the Amazon rainforest's role in the global climate crisis. 

On a global scale, the rainforest is a carbon sink, and to the indigenous people of the region, it's a source of life—and it is being decimated by loggers and land grabbers every day.  Eaton sits down with BPR to discuss his reporting on the notorious 'arc of deforestation' in the Amazon, and indigenous efforts to combat it. 

Listen to the full episode of the BPR show at WGBH.org

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