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“Everything is happening at the wrong time,” says Myrian Pereira Vasques. “The trees are blossoming at the wrong time, the soil isn’t the same, the weather is too hot and the fish are dying in the dry season. People who fish for a living are feeling it.” Myrian lives in the Amazonian village of Filadélfia, […] 
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Viewed from high above, the Amazon in South America is a lush emerald quilt, home to millions of animals and the planet’s largest river by volume. It is also key to protecting our planet from the detrimental effects of climate change.
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Great synopsis of this important question! #amazonrainforest #scientificamerican #themoreyouknow #conservation #climatechange
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Some Brazilian scientists fear that the Amazon may become a grassy savanna — with profound effects on the climate worldwide.
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The Mennonites, a religious (Christian) group often dedicated to organized agriculture, are increasingly inhabiting the western Amazon (Peru and Bolivia). Here, we reveal the recent deforestation o…
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The Amazonian manatee is classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN, a consequence of centuries of hunting after the European discovery of the Amazon, along with modern day local hunting, trade, and entanglement with fishing gear. (Six out of the ten radio-tagged manatees studied were hunted by local communities over the course of the research.) Dams can exacerbate these threats, as the human population — and therefore the demand for meat — increases during and after dam construction.
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Yes - the Amazon has manatees!
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I distinctly remember the first time I accidentally stabbed my hand on the spine of an Astrocaryum palm, and thinking to myself, “Why on Earth does this plant possess such horrendously vicious spines?!”
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The Amazon in particular has been a major concern for environmentalists. Currently, around 85 percent of the world´s supply of palm oil is produced in Malaysia and Indonesia alone. But as demand rises and plantation land becomes less available in these areas, producers are increasingly looking elsewhere to expand cultivation. The Amazon and other tropical areas around the equator are hot spots for future plantations since oil palm trees need temperatures between 25 and 28 degrees Celsius, regular rainfall and strong sunlight to thrive.
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conservation payment programs are making a difference in the diversity of tree species in protected spaces. Further, the species being protected are twice as likely to be of commercial timber value and at risk of extinction.
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The severity of the 2016 drought over tropical South America was unprecedented." Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/aug/03/study-finds-human-influence-in-the-amazons-third-1-in-100-year-drought-since-2005#_scpsug=crawled_126412_7b4cc230-7834-11e7-ea89-00221934899c
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The Maijuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation Area (MKRCA) is located adjacent to one of our study sites. This tract of Peruvian rainforest bigger than California’s Yosemite National Park is officially protected and we are working with the Maijuna to incorporate their conservation story and sustainable development initiatives into our field programs. Read more about the MKRCA and its formation...
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We are thrilled to amp up our "conservation through education" mission and support the indigenous Maijuna and their quest to protect nearly a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon
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Due to mercury contamination caused by illegal gold mining, the government of Peru on Monday declared an environmental emergency in nearly a dozen districts within the Amazon rainforest.
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Symrise has identified the Amazon region as one of the most promising sources of botanical innovation. To be at the heart of this strategic (...)
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Interesting...
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Francisco "Chico" Mendes (1944 - 1988), Brazilian rubber-tapper and environmentalist, actively involved in protecting the Amazon forest through his advocacy for the rights of local communities and indigenous peoples.
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From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the projected savannization of the region.
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Study adds to fears Amazon is approaching tipping point after which it will not be able to generate its own rainfall...
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It is increasingly reported that the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon, is rapidly approaching a tipping point. As repeatedly highlighted by the late Tom Lovejoy (see Acknowledgements), t…
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About half of the oil exports from the Western Amazon Basin come to California to be processed by refineries and used by consumers in the state. This means that more oil from the Amazon rainforest is used in California than anywhere else in the world.
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Hey California friends - this is imporant!
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(Borrowing from a J&B whisky commercial from the 1990s…) Tradition says: “A tree must begin its life from the forest floor”. Tradition says: “A tree shall fo…
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What is the good of science and art if we cannot relate to one another as human beings? This was my personal jungle to battle with: these networks of wicked problems that give me as an artist much to work with, but also makes me as a person very concerned about the future of mankind in general.
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This. Fascinating perspective on the interface of art, science, climate change, and the Amazon. Inspired.
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A look at 12 books on climate change and biodiversity ... and humanity's current scrambling of the biosphere.
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The Amazon could help solve many of the problems facing mankind but we need to unlock the area's potential in a way that carefully preserves it.
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Hundreds of square miles of the Amazon are zoned for oil and gas exploration, with commercially viable reserves destined for national and international markets, including the US and the UK. But pipelines fragment the rainforest, dividing populations and disrupting the movements of species that spend their lives in the treetops. Now, a study using canopy camera trapping has shown that these impacts can be mitigated if natural canopy bridges are left in place when pipelines are constructed.
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Indigenous peoples of the Amazon and climate change. Interactive calendar, traditional knowledge. Work of Instituto Socioambiental - ISA with the team of InfoAmazonia. The infographics bring together river level and rainfall measurements and the seasons of the year as informed by indigenous researchers of the region, together with the names of the astronomical constellations as identified by Tukano elders. Click here to edit the content
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This is pretty darn cool!
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One morning two days before Christmas in 1988, Chico Mendes, the leader of a group of rubber tree tappers, walked into his backyard to take a shower. That was his routine.
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A large-scale new study identifies a critical threshold for significant species loss in the Amazon due to deforestation, but also suggests a strategy for action
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