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June 6, 2025 11:39 AM
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New study highlights Amazon’s critical role in the Earth’s climate system, revealing that land-use changes and accelerating deforestation reduce biogenic trace gas emissions and impact atmospheric chemistry up to 12 km altitude.
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May 30, 2025 4:33 PM
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Through a collaboration with the Peruvian nonprofit, Fundación Los Amigos de la Naturaleza, we work with local bird guides like Garly to connect children in Amazonian villages with the wonders of their local birds and the importance of protecting rainforest habitats. By providing binoculars and educational resources to our partners, we inspire curiosity, stewardship, and conservation through education. https://morphoinstitute.org/amazon-binocular-project/
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July 30, 2025 12:10 PM
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Finishing the pavement of BR-319 in Brazil could unleash an environmental destruction capable of irreversibly changing the world's climate
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June 25, 2025 8:01 AM
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Tropical forests help regulate the global climate, host irreplaceable biodiversity and provide fresh water resources. Plus forests in general are the source of livelihoods for more than a billion people — so our very existence depends on them. However, because their value is not reflected in markets, these areas are often converted to other uses. Conserving our tropical forests […]
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July 30, 2025 11:53 AM
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Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.
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May 30, 2025 4:21 PM
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Join us in empowering K-12 educators to take an active role in realizing the vision of a sustainable Amazon - with its forests, rivers, biodiversity, and people treasured and protected as a vital global resource now and for generations to come. https://morphoinstitute.org/donate/
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April 23, 2025 3:09 PM
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To Celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week, we are launching our new Metamorphosis Merch! All proceeds for orders placed in the month of May will go directly to our scholarship fund!
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June 25, 2025 7:43 AM
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Two months after launch, Europe’s Biomass satellite has returned its first images—and they’re already revealing hidden secrets beneath some of the world’s most impenetrable forests. The spacecraft’s advanced radar can peer through dense Amazon canopies to measure the carbon locked inside tree trunks and branches, offering scientists an unprecedented tool for tracking how forests store ... Read more
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June 26, 2025 7:26 AM
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Scott Loarie has a challenge for you: go outside and take a picture of a living thing. He introduces the global community of people building a living atlas of the natural world by sharing their nature photos with scientists — and shows how you can join in on the fun.
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June 25, 2025 7:46 AM
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If tropical rainforests are the lungs of the Earth, then 2024 was a year of respiratory failure. Fires, fueled by climate extremes and human recklessness, tore through vast stretches of forest at an unprecedented pace. According to satellite data from the University of Maryland and the World Resources Institute, 6.7 million hectares of tropical primary […]
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June 7, 2025 9:54 AM
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On the world’s largest river island, a new research project is uncovering a long-overlooked story of biodiversity and evolution.
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June 6, 2025 11:36 AM
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The primate species identified in the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land have symbolic meanings that are deeply associated with the cultural, ecological and mythological elements of the Paiter-Suruí people’s cosmology
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June 3, 2025 7:22 AM
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A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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July 30, 2025 12:17 PM
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An ongoing federal highway project that will cross through protected areas and Indigenous lands in Peru’s Amazon is facing mounting concerns by Indigenous leaders and legal experts. Meant to help transport goods and people in the remote region, they say the highway will also help traffickers transport drugs, increase land invasions and put endangered wildlife […]
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July 30, 2025 12:14 PM
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The Amazon Rainforest, where next year’s COP30 climate summit will be hosted, is reeling from two consecutive years of severe drought, with major rivers at record lows, leading to water shortages and transportation disruptions for local communities.
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July 31, 2025 1:38 PM
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June 25, 2025 8:00 AM
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Using a handheld instrument 200 feet up in the forest, researchers at Michigan State University have uncovered how Amazon canopy trees manage the intense sunlight they absorb.
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July 30, 2025 11:50 AM
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As seasons get more extreme in the Amazon, weather patterns will shift across South America, threatening both indigenous communities and economic stability.
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April 10, 2024 9:11 AM
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July 23, 2025 5:21 PM
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Logging, drug trafficking and the climate crisis endanger the world’s largest isolated Indigenous group, on the border with Brazil
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July 30, 2025 12:17 PM
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June 25, 2025 7:56 AM
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Information locked into tree rings in two Amazon species allowed researchers to reconstruct seasonal changes in rainfall.
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June 9, 2025 7:38 AM
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Scientists have known for some time now that tropical birds are falling in number. In general, the cause has been attributed to forest degradation and fragmentation. But a 2020 study has shown that the populations of certain bird species living in regions of the Amazon still undisturbed by human activities have also dropped. Scientists from […]
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June 6, 2025 11:40 AM
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Before 1988, Brazil had no contingency plans for unexpected encounters with Indigenous peoples living in isolation. If government officials, developers or explorers accidentally stumbled upon a camp, the protocol was to make contact — a move that can upend societies and spread deadly diseases.
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June 3, 2025 7:27 AM
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Technology can be a powerful ally in conservation, but it’s not a silver bullet. Too often, tools like drones, GPS apps or satellite imagery are introduced as standalone solutions, disconnected from those who have stewarded these ecosystems for generations. What’s missing isn’t innovation. It’s inclusion. Local and Indigenous communities bring centuries of knowledge, experience and […]
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