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Happy to announce that our popular webinar series is BACK! Mark your calendars and get registered at www.morphoinstitute.org/events
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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One smashed bug. One gasp around the table. What came next became a documentary. By Morpho alumni, Josh Ault, Journalism Teacher, Spring Woods High School, Houston, TX.
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Eighty percent of the world's biodiversity is within Indigenous territories, yet these communities often don't have a say when it comes to protecting the lands they inhabit. Environmental activist Jupta Itoewaki explains why Indigenous peoples are best positioned to lead the world's efforts to preserve nature and maintain a habitable planet -- and reminds us of their outsized importance in charting a sustainable future.
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2027 Course Enrollment Opens September 15th. Space is limited and spots fill quickly! Sign Up for Info Night. Funding available! Learn more
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A unique Missouri Botanical Garden study looking at the same individual Amazon trees across decades shows effect of climate change.
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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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When a bird of prey comes calling, a multi-species wave of alarm goes rippling through the rainforest canopy.
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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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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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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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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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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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"From River to Research: Investigating Amazon Fish Biodiversity" is an interactive story map created by 2026 Alumna, Jeanne Salchli who joined the Aquatic Survey Team during the Amazon Research Initiative for Educators. Check it out - it's amazing!
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Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according to new research. Have you participated? We'd love to know more!
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Whether this is your first gift or another step in your journey with us, thank you for supporting conservation education. Donate today with the QR code or via this link: https://morphoinstitute.org/donate/
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Hot temperatures during development can alter the scales that create Morpho butterflies’ brilliant blue iridescence, leaving adults with duller colors
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Every day, the Amazon releases billions of tons of water into the atmosphere that are carried by winds toward other regions of South America. They deliver the rains that supply forests, cities and crops far beyond the rainforest.
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In an unprecedented participatory ethnobotany approach, Hemerson Dantas dos Santos Pataxó HãHãHãi, the world’s first published Indigenous ethnobotanist, documented alongside his people their traditional medicinal practices: cataloging 175 medicinal plants, many of which had their use reaffirmed in scientific literature.
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