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"The victory completes a stunning political revival for Mr. da Silva - from the presidency to prison and back - that had once seemed unthinkable. It also ends Mr. Bolsonaro's turbulent time as the region's most powerful leader. For years, he attracted global attention for policies that accelerated the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and exacerbated the pandemic, which left nearly 700,000 dead in Brazil, while also becoming a major international figure of the far right for his brash attacks on the left, the media and Brazil's democratic institutions."

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been under constant attack from the Amazon rainforest's soaring deforestation, is set to be given the cold shoulder at the G20 summit in Rome and won't attend the COP26 climate meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.

We utilize carbon in our society constantly: economies, housing, and transportation. However, this article focuses on a specific type of carbon: Blue Carbon. The video explains that Blue Carbon is the carbon that is stored in the soil and plants of coastal habitats. Specifically, it is the coastal ecosystems that are very helpful in storing carbon from the atmosphere. The ecological term is a carbon sink which can store up to 10 times the amount of carbon as a tropical rainforest.

In protest at the lack of government assistance following an oil spill in the region, indigenous people in Peru's Amazon region detained a group of tourists from both Peru and abroad. Four decades ago, Petroperu, a state-owned company, constructed the 800 km Norperuano pipeline to move  oil from the Amazon region to Piura on the coast. Petroperu claims that the spill was caused by a purposeful 21 cm pipeline cut.