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US judge halts damages claim over pollution in Amazon
An American judge has extended his temporary ban on the collection of $18bn (£11.1bn) in damages from Chevron, saying the US oil giant would be irreparably harmed if it had to pay compensation – ordered by a court in Ecuador – for pollution in parts of the Amazon rainforest.
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The Amazon Rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazonica or Amazon, in Spanish: Selva Amazon or Amazon) is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon basin of South America. The area, known as the Amazon, the Amazon jungle or the Amazon Basin, encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 million hectares), though the forest itself occupies some 5.5 million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres), located in nine countries: Brazil (with 60 percent of the rainforest), Peru (with 13 percent of the forest, second behind Brazil), Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations bear the name Amazonas after it. The Amazon represents over half the remaining rainforests in the world and covers the largest area and most species-rich tropical forest tropical forest in the world. The name Amazon is said to derive from a war which Francisco de Orellana was a Tapuyas tribe and other tribes of South America, where women of the tribe fought alongside men, as was customary among the whole tribe (Orellana's descriptions may have been correct, but some historians speculate that Orellana could have indigenous people confuse using "grass skirts" for women). Orellana derived the name Amazonas from the ancient Amazons of Asia and Africa described by Herodotus and Diodorus in Greek legends. Another etymology of the word suggests that it was originally an Amazon native word (the Spanish spelling) or amassona (Portuguese spelling), meaning "destroyer (of) boats", in reference to the destructive nature of the root system to have some riparian plants. Jungle tropical likely formed during the Eocene epoch, following the evolutionary appearance of angiosperm plants. Apparently, after an overall reduction tropical temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean has expanded enough to provide a warm and humid in the Amazon basin. The forest has been in existence at least 55 million years, and most of the region remained free of savanna-type biomes during that period of time. [1] [2] Following the K / T event, the extinction of dinosaurs and wetter climate may have allowed the rainforest to spread throughout the continent. From 65 to 34 Mya, the forest extended to the south of 45 °. climate fluctuations during the past 34 million years has broadened the savanna regions in the tropics. During the Oligocene, for example, Stretched a relatively narrow band that lay mostly above latitude 15 ° N. It expanded again during the Middle Miocene, then retracted mostly to a system of training in the last glacial maximum. [3] However, the rain managed to thrive in these glacial periods;. allow survival and development of a wide variety of species [4] A mid-Eocene, it is believed that the Amazon basin was divided along the center the continent by the Purus Arch. The water flowed on the eastern side into the Atlantic, while the water flowed west to the Pacific through the basin Amazon. As the Andes rose, however, a large closed basin that formed a lake, now known as the Solimões Basin. Within the past 5-10 million years, this accumulation of water broke the Purus Arch, joining the flow from east to the Atlantic. [5] [6] There is evidence that there have been changes significant in the Amazon rainforest vegetation over the past 21,000 years through the last glaciation (LGM) and subsequent thawing. Analysis sediment deposits palaeolakes Amazon Basin and the Amazon Fan indicate that rainfall in the basin during the LGM was lower than for the present, and was likely associated with vegetation coverage reduced humid tropical basin. [7] There is debate, however, on how extensive this reduction was. Some Scientists say the forest is reduced to small isolated huts separated by open forests and grasslands, [8], other scientists argue that the forest remained largely intact but extending less than even today to the North, South and East can be seen. [9] This debate has been difficult due to practical constraints Working in the rain forest means that the data sampling is biased to the center of the Amazon basin, and both explanations are reasonably well supported by available data. Based on archaeological evidence from excavations at Caverna da Pedra Pintada, first human inhabitants settled in the Amazon region, at least makes 11,200 years. [10] Further development led to the late prehistoric settlements on the outskirts of the forest of 1250 CE, which induced changes in forest cover. [11] The biologists believe the population density of 0.2 inhabitants per km2 is the maximum that can be sustained in the rain forest through hunting. Therefore, agriculture is necessary to accommodate a larger population. [12] The first European to travel the length of the Amazon River
