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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An automated river interceptor extracts floating plastic debris along a river, reflecting the technology of The Ocean Cleanup whose CEO publicly offered a position to student volunteer Surendra Singh Choudhary after his effort cleared the Ajnar River.

“Come Work For Us”: Boyan Slat Offers India’s River Cleaner a Job

A 20-year-old student from a small town in Madhya Pradesh spent months pulling plastic out of a polluted river, largely with his own hands and basic tools. Now the CEO of one of the world’s best-known ocean cleanup organisations has publicly told him: “Come work for us.” Surendra Singh Choudhary, known online as Bittu Tabahi,

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