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"The Amazon rainforest plays an important role in the southern hemisphere by transpiring moisture that is transported by clouds to many places that need precipitation," said Jose D. Fuentes, professor of meteorology, Penn State. "However, there's a big gap in our knowledge of the underlying processes that influence the formation of clouds." 
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By teaching basic ecology field work techniques to indigenous groups in the Amazon, Stanford researchers find that satellite measurements of rainforests underestimate the region's carbon storage potential.
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Returning from the field to Iquitos, Peru, researchers’ worst fears about the health of the Amazon River were confirmed.
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As climates change, the lush tropical ecosystems of the Amazon Basin may release more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they absorb, according to a new study published Feb. 6 in Nature. - See more at: http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2014/02/05/amazonian-drought-conditions-add-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere#sthash.Lvbh0NAc.dpuf
The Morpho Institute's insight:
The Amazon is changing - and along with it our climate. Time to start paying attention and taking action!
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Scientists have long known that forests play a significant role in global climate dynamics, but now they are increasingly concerned about the way they transport water on a regional scale.
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If there's one person standing between the world and a potential, devastating lack of chocolate, it's this man.
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Satellite data reveals that the most dense stores of carbon in Amazonia is not above ground in trees but below ground in peatlands. Via Paulo Gervasio
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