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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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December 8, 2025 9:27 AM
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Three in four teachers interested in our programs say cost decides whether they can come. Your donations make our scholarship program possible. What a teacher starts in the Amazon doesn’t stay there. It continues in hundreds of classrooms and inspires thousands of students to understand why biodiversity matters. That is how conservation education multiplies: one teacher, one river, countless students downstream. Be a Conservation Education Multiplier - use the QR code or DONATE HERE
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October 29, 6:13 PM
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This inquiry kit has Library of Congress sources about the value and importance of the Amazon rainforest in South America.
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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 29, 1:40 PM
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A giant water lily spotted on Instagram led to the discovery of a new species in Colombia, where researchers estimate just 30 to 50 plants exist in the wild.
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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, 3:46 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 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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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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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! REGISTER HERE
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October 29, 2:41 PM
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Beginning in the Fall and running until the Spring each year, this course serves to support participants in deepening their understanding of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives while strengthening connections with the local Land and supporting more respectful, reciprocal relationships. Morpho is a partner org of The Outdoor Learning School, and they give us a 25% discount to share with our network (CYCLES25%)! Learn more about Cycles of Indigenous Learning Programs and Cycle One: Foundations of Knowledge. We've signed up for Cycle One. Come learn with us!
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October 29, 4:58 PM
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Students analyze a map to identify and describe multiple landscapes in the Amazon rainforest, the organisms that inhabit those landscapes and the role of the forest in the water cycle and nutrient cycle. Then they construct a scientific argument for the effects of deforestation on the local ecosystem and the water and nutrient cycles.
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October 29, 1:47 PM
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The Kunming-Montreal Framework has 23 targets. Every one of them will be met or missed by people, and people protect what they feel is part of them.
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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, 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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July 28, 7:05 PM
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2027 Course Enrollment Is OPEN! 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 29, 6:58 PM
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Morpho is a volunteer-run nonprofit that offers professional development courses for K–16 educators. Teachers complete a pre-departure course, study in the Peruvian Amazon with expert faculty, and stay connected through our alumni professional learning community. One teacher reaches hundreds of students over a career, and we’re building the pipeline that makes that reach count for conservation. Learn more
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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 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 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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