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  Children who survived plane crash for 40 days in Amazon jungle, claim their mother lived for days

  World | June 13, 2023 10:21 IST

  The plane was found two weeks after the crash in a thick patch of rainforest. The bodies of the three adults were recovered, but there was no sign of the children, prompting hopes that they could be alive.

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  Miracle! Children, lost for 40 days in dense tropical Amazon forest after plane crash, found alive

  World | June 10, 2023 8:23 IST

  Colombia: Authorities found alive four children who survived a small plane crash 40 days ago in the dense Amazon jungle. As per reports, all the adults in the plane had died but these children were reported missing.

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  Amazon rainforest continues to burn; motorists crash due to thick smoke in vicinity

  World | August 19, 2020 8:17 IST

  This year, President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to control the burning — typically started by local farmers to clear land for cattle or to grow soybeans, one of Brazil’s top exports. He imposed a four-month ban on most fires and sent in the army to prevent and battle blazes. 

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  Amazon forest fires melting glaciers over 2,000 km away: Study

  Science | November 29, 2019 17:05 IST

  Fires in the Amazon rainforest are melting glaciers more than 2,000 kilometres away in the Andes mountain range in South America, according to a study.  

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  Deforestation of Amazon grew by 222% in August

  World | September 09, 2019 11:58 IST

  The sharp increase in deforestation in July and August led the surface of the Amazon destroyed in the first eight months of 2019 to increase to 6,404.8 sq.km, an area 92 per cent larger than that recorded between January and August 2018 (3,336.7 sq.km).  

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  Leonardo DiCaprio's Earth alliance fund to donate USD 5 million in aid amid Amazon fires

  Hollywood | August 26, 2019 14:19 IST

  Leonardo DiCaprio's new environmental organisation Earth Alliance, has pledged USD five million to help preserve the Amazon rainforest amid raging fires.

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  Leonardo Dicaprio's viral Amazon forest fire photo is old image. Deets inside

  Trending | August 22, 2019 16:46 IST

  Amazon rainforest, which serves as the lungs of Earth is burning and Titanic star Leonardo Dicaprio took to Twitter to raise the concern.

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  What a fail! Man tries to get swallowed by Anaconda alive

  Life | December 16, 2014 12:47 IST

  What was supposed to be an act of daredevilry turned out to be a damp squib in a show named eaten alive.An American naturalist, Paul Rosolie along with his team  tracked down a 20 ft