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March 28, 2025 1:53 PM
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A warm welcome to all of our new subscribers! We hope you enjoy our monthly newsletter with curated articles about the Amazon, Morpho program updates, and resources for your classroom. Have an article or resource we should know about? Please send it to info@morphoinstitute.org!
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October 28, 6:16 PM
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Colombia has welcomed "Milagro' a critically endangered blue-billed curassow chick, marking a conservation milestone. Colombia is home to more than 1,900 registered bird species, making it the world’s most bird-diverse nation. Yet its extraordinary biological wealth is under growing pressure from habitat loss, agriculture, infrastructure development and other human activities. The blue-billed curassow illustrates the scale of that challenge.
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October 28, 4:02 PM
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Hear from Morpho Institute and OnePlanet on the current state of Maijuna conservation — what's working, what's new, and why the threat from road development hasn't disappeared. Learn how you can get involved and bring this important conservation story into your classroom!
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October 28, 3:53 PM
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The UN Secretary-General has called for an end to the “war on nature”. Governments gathering in Yerevan, Armenia, will have to confront a more practical question: are they doing enough to win the peace and put the world’s biodiversity goals back on track?
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October 28, 3:46 PM
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The reduction has accelerated since President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in 2023. Lula restored environmental law enforcement, expanded conservation programs, and resumed efforts to establish protected areas and recognize Indigenous territories.
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October 20, 4:38 PM
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October 5, 5:05 PM
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The real story of science isn't a triumphant breakthrough. It's messy, mysterious, and deeply human.In Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like… Not a Eureka moment, but a fraught, often chaotic pursuit of truth.
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October 1, 9:01 PM
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When a bird of prey comes calling, a multi-species wave of alarm goes rippling through the rainforest canopy.
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September 15, 11:46 AM
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Using the microscopic structures found on the wings of the Morpho butterfly, researchers have developed a simple and inexpensive way to analyze cancer biopsy samples that could make cancer diagnosis faster, more accurate and more accessible worldwide.
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October 2, 12:40 PM
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How can young people prepare for and engage in COP17? How can they take action for biodiversity conservation - at home and around the world?
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September 24, 6:42 AM
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A new study has found that in Ecuador’s Amazon, Indigenous territories without formal conservation contracts maintained forest conditions just as well as formal protected areas. Ecuador has three different approaches to forest governance: Forests protected by government institutions, forests managed by local communities under formal conservation agreements and Indigenous territories without formal conservation agreements. To […]
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October 2, 11:55 AM
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What happens in the rainforest when a giant tree comes crashing down? Through the Amazon Research Initiative for Educators (ARIE), K-12 teachers stepped into the role of field scientists at the Amazon Conservatory of Tropical Studies - this is their Field Report!
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September 18, 2:19 PM
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Brazil is betting the Amazon can be protected by making forests economically valuable - but will commercial use stay within the ecological limits?
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October 28, 6:21 PM
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Global leaders are meeting in Armenia for COP 17- the UN Biodiversity Conference. This article provides a great overview of the conference and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Education is taking center stage as well!
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October 28, 6:09 PM
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Violet Clinton is doing award-winning entomological field research. Her dad still has to buy the beer for her moth bait.
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October 28, 3:56 PM
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Hear from Morpho Institute and OnePlanet on the current state of Maijuna conservation — what's working, what's new, and why the threat from road development hasn't disappeared. Learn how you can get involved and bring this important conservation story into your classroom!
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October 28, 3:50 PM
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Unlike a tornado or thunderstorm that can deliver destruction in minutes, El Niño exerts its influence over many months. This year, a drought accompanying El Niño has left the Amazon rainforest primed to burn, and scientists say the region has entered the early stages of what they think will be a long and severe fire season.
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October 20, 4:41 PM
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October 16, 11:49 AM
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Facing a flood of A.I. slop, groups bent on democratizing science create new checks and balances.
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October 2, 12:09 PM
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New to Morpho and wondering what our PD courses are all about? Download our new program guide to learn more - it even includes a template for a funding request letter for your school or district!
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July 28, 7:05 PM
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2027 Course Enrollment Opens September 15th. Space is limited, and spots fill quickly! Sign up for Info Night to learn more about both of our PD courses and determine which one is right for you!
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October 2, 12:03 PM
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Don't miss the deadline! Morpho Institute funding applications are due by November 1 at 12PM ET. Get started on yours ASAP and don't forget to get that letter of support from your admin!
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October 2, 11:54 AM
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Join The Morpho Institute and The Climate Initiative for this professional learning opportunity and explore the critical role of education and educators in achieving the Global Biodiversity Targets! REGISTER
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October 1, 8:58 PM
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NC State experts explain what drives Amazon wildfires, their impact on forests and communities and how policies and technology aim to prevent them.
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September 29, 6:19 AM
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At a meeting with conservationists a couple of years back, Juan Lavista Ferres had a eureka moment. As the director of Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, Lavista Ferres has extensively worked on projects that use artificial intelligence technology to process and analyze biodiversity data. At that particular meeting, however, he realized that a glaring gap […]
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March 18, 4:12 PM
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Plastic pollution is so widespread in the Amazon that it’s turning up in fish, birds, manatees, and even remote streams far from human settlements.
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What sheds a pall over these discoveries (the largest group in 140 years), is the fact that deforestation helped reveal them.