By Malina Saval Associate Editor, Features Here are 10 environmental hotspots around the globe — and ways that you can help. AMAZON Oil drilling, logging and mining threaten the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples, namely those in Brazil.
But since 1996, Amazon Watch, with offices in Oakland and Washington, D.C., has worked to protect the rainforest and the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.
Oscar-winner and passionate environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio has long supported Amazon Watch through his eponymous foundation, founded in 1998. “We only get one planet,” DiCaprio told the United Nations in 2014.amazonwatch.orgleonardodicaprio.org ARCTIC CIRCLE The Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the planet as a whole,
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