Smoke rises over cleared forest on the Amazon frontier in Rondonia, Brazil — where deforestation spiked 92 percent in May 2025 and 51 percent of clearing hit recently burned land. Each fire scar becomes a footnote in a longer ledger of loss. [Photo: NASA / Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain]

Amazon Deforestation Soars 92%: Brazil’s October 2026 Election Decides Future

Amazon deforestation jumped 92 percent in May 2025, with 51 percent of clearing in burned areas. Brazil's October 4, 2026 presidential vote decides forest protection and the 17 percent tipping margin.

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Rows of server racks illustrate the computing infrastructure behind the growing demand for AI services. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0

38,000 ChatGPT Queries Use One Almond’s Water—Now Multiply That by Billions

Using ChatGPT can have a water footprint, depending on how water use is accounted for across the computing and electricity systems involved. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said—while acknowledging he was recalling the figure from memory—that roughly 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as producing one California almond. A California almond requires between 1.1 and

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