Territories in Brazil's fragmented Atlantic Forest where Indigenous peoples enjoy secure land rights have seen measurably less deforestation than similar
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A CU Boulder-led study shows that between 1985 and 2019 in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, deforestation decreased and reforestation increased on lands where Indigenous communities had been able to complete a legal process to receive formal recognition of their ancestral lands.
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Carbondale’s Virtual First Friday for March is an extension of CORE’s Imagine Climate 2021 programming and explores the intersection between art and science. Rayna Benzeev, a fourth-year phD candidate at CU Boulder in the environmental studies department, said historically science has struggled with communicating to a general audience. The NESTed Gallery in Carbondale gives sci-artists artists with scientific backgrounds and vice-versa the chance to captivate the public through various strategies.
,” she said. “We are a group of seven chin characters that they’re upside down human faces, with a face and a wig on the chin part that try to make climate change funny. So the point is that climate change is often presented as this doom and gloom scenario…But there’s reason to have hope and reason to make it funny rather than super serious all the time.”