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April 23, 2025 2:12 PM
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As spring rolls across the northern hemisphere, many students (and teachers) long to get outdoors. It’s a great opportunity to engage kids in field data work. +++ Ask the question Whether the teacher is designing the study or students are creating their own, articulating a clear question to driv
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April 24, 2025 11:56 AM
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Today, the Maijuna and many others in the Amazon, such as Kichwa and Kukama Kukamiria communities, no longer cut down the trees and have implemented specific measures to avoid excessive exploitation.
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April 26, 2025 9:44 AM
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When freshmen take a science course that immerses them in their school’s culture and physical space, they develop a sense of belonging—and a deep connection to the mission.
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April 25, 2025 6:09 PM
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New research from Kelly Zamudio at The University of Texas at Austin and an international team finds climate change threatens hundreds of amphibian species.
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March 28, 2025 2:03 PM
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March 28, 2025 9:58 AM
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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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April 21, 2025 10:33 AM
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The Americas showcased never-before-seen animal behaviors on film for the first time. See how in The Making of The Americas.
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April 2, 2025 9:31 AM
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Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a scientist said.
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April 21, 2025 10:35 AM
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Browse Amazon news, research and analysis from The Conversation
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March 28, 2025 9:57 AM
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George Mason researcher David Luther is leading a project that is using AI models to help identify species and track biodiversity in Brazilian rainforests.
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March 28, 2025 9:56 AM
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New research from a team of tropical biologists forecasts some of the changes that may occur in the Amazon rainforest as temperatures rise due to climate change.
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March 28, 2025 9:50 AM
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A colonial-era myth about endangered pink river dolphins in the Amazon has led to a false belief that perfumes or pusangas made from their body parts are potent love potions. According to a recent Mongabay documentary, the myth has created a market for the perfumes, further endangering the dolphins. The film, released in February, follows […]
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March 26, 2025 1:47 AM
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April 24, 2025 8:20 AM
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“By themselves the figs could build a forest,” ecologist EJH Corner wrote almost a century ago. Now a fascinating book, Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers: the secret history and redemptive future of fig trees (titled Ladders to Heaven in the UK), delves anew into this tropical species’ biology and key ecological role, as well as its […]
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April 24, 2025 11:48 AM
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The rich biodiversity of Amazonia is shaped geographically and ecologically by its rivers and their cycles of seasonal flooding. Anthropogenic effects, such as deforestation, infrastructure development and extreme climatic events, threaten the ecological processes sustaining Amazonian ecosystems.
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April 24, 2025 12:27 PM
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10 fun facts that you might not know about this amazing raptor of the neotropical rainforest.
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April 23, 2025 3:13 PM
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"Climate Change and Sustainability in Amazonia" published on by Oxford University Press.
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February 26, 2025 2:15 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.
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April 22, 2025 3:18 PM
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Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
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April 24, 2025 8:26 AM
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“It’s amazing, it’s amazing! I have no other word to describe it.” That’s how biologist Marcos Roberto de Brito defines the thrill of seeing a jaguar up close for the first time. Brito is the lead author of a recently published study that discovered a unique trait in the jaguars of the Mamirauá Sustainable Development […]
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March 28, 2025 10:00 AM
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Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the legal power to return—and it’s not only about justice. Under their stewardship, the forests can thrive.
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February 26, 2025 2:00 PM
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Learn how to use a geographic lens to analyze space, place, and the interconnections between both the human and natural world. Learn how to use the Geo-Inquiryto help your students connect complex components, see patterns, and make connections that help them understand and change their communities.
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March 14, 2025 5:06 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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March 28, 2025 9:54 AM
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Foreign aid cuts are leaving Amazon communities at risk. Business and philanthropy must step up to scale solutions and build economic opportunity before time runs out.
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March 27, 2025 8:09 AM
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Hidden within the Amazon Rainforest are rare, carbon-rich ecosystems known as peatlands, a type of swamp forest that’s key to combatting climate change through its capacity to absorb and store carbon. But in the mining hotspots of Peru, these peatland swamps are rapidly disappearing, one study has found. In Madre de Dios, in southeastern Peru, […]
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