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Thwarting Illegal Mining in the Amazon with Satellite

Thwarting Illegal Mining in the Amazon with Satellite Data

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How is new tech helping protect the rainforest? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice learn about how space technology is helping uncover illegal gold mines and protecting the Amazon, with illegal mining expert Larissa Rodrigues and Earth researcher Jennifer Holm.

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  1. There tends to be this over-emphasis about stopping deforestation of the Amazon as though that's the only garden we have on Earth. Keep that intact and we're somehow good. Attention should also be given to other regions of the planet and re-forestation efforts.

  2. Venezuelan Amazon is also suffering eventhough it was not mentioned. The situation is even worse because the ilidal mining on Venezuela is protected by the dictatorial regime.

  3. i was thinking on real life iif we cannot stop this at least we can create a product different from mercury that at least made the land reusable, is it posible to do that? i know is not the best solution but it can solve many problem related to the post mining but the illgal mining itself it will hard to stop since there too wie territory to cover and few people to make that job

  4. So they talking about paying another country to not cut down trees but here in America we save on our property tax by cutting our trees down! ???? This is fear mongering. If this was as bad as they make it sound there would be Incentives to go the other way

  5. Save the amazon! I wonder how much natural environments left in U.S. I mean everybody is looking at these forests like they were our tressure. No… This is their tressure and they will do everything they want with it. Maybe they still have it now, because they saved it in the past, not like us-ruining everything around? And what is more to say, We probably use the most of these exact resources.

  6. When Jair Bolsonaro was pres of Brazil, his lunacy caused a LARGE increase in deforestation AND the invasion of indigenous lands.
    People like him care nothing about the world they live in. They only care about their own personal wealth.
    WHO would trust someone who warned the Brazilian people against taking a COVID 19 vaccines because it was "going to turn them into crocodiles"!!
    OH WAIT! I know! People whose sense of the world ONLY centers around themselves!

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