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Raoni Metuktire has spent decades advocating for the Amazon rainforest, which is at risk of losing another 590,000 square kilometers by 2050. 
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Aiming to prevent “climate and ecological collapse,” rainforest inhabitants release a detailed plan to save their home, honing in on ending fossil fuel subsidies and securing Indigenous land rights.
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It is the longest bridge ever built in Peru, a massive structure of cement and iron spanning the Nanay River as it connects to untouched areas of the Peruvian Amazon.
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The Indigenous campaigner won a historic legal victory to protect Waorani land in the Amazon rainforest.Now she has written a groundbreaking memoir...
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Some areas of the Amazon rainforest are more resilient to drought than others, new UArizona-led research shows. If not managed carefully, we could "threaten the integrity of the whole system," researchers say.
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With their metallic-blue-and-green bodies and iridescent wings, orchid bees aren’t just charismatic bugs. They’re specialist pollinators in tropical rainforests from Mexico to Brazil and are primarily responsible for the spread of the iconic Brazilian nut. But orchid bees might also provide a window into how deforestation and land-use change affect ecosystems and biodiversity, a recent study in Brazil’s state of Rondônia suggests.
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We are proud to be a World Rainforest Day Partner! Join us in celebrating rainforests around the world on June 22. Post your favorite rainforest photo and tag #morphoinstitute and #worldrainforestday. Learn more Rainforest Partnership and World Rainforest Day: https://www.rainforestpartnership.org/
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Looking for ways to bring the Amazon into your classroom? Check out the Morpho Resource bank - full of original content and curated favorites from our partners! https://morphoinstitute.org/resource-bank/
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Earth's largest remaining tract of tropical rainforest is kept alive by a complex water cycle that we're only just beginning to understand.
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The number of individual birds found at the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve has dropped by half, according to a study published earlier this year.
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An early-career botanist joins the Mongabay Newscast to discuss his group’s recent study of the decrease in plant awareness and educational opportunities to study botany. A Ph.D. candidate in Urban Ecology and Botany at the University of Leeds, Sebastian Stroud explains why this trend — which is not unique to the U.K. — could vastly […]
The Morpho Institute's curator insight,
February 21, 2023 9:17 AM
This is an outstanding interview with deep connections to education, environmental literacy, plant blindness, and our future!
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A beautiful story map that takes you inside our partner community of Sucusari and the lives of the Indigenous Maijuna fighting to save their ancestral lands. (More story maps like this are hosted on Morpho's ArcGIS mapping project page: .
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The World Bank and the Amazon Environmental Research Insitute (IPAM) developed a model that can tell where and how much deforestation is most likely to occur – the forest-at-risk
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This study provides a rapid, precise, and non-destructive means for monitoring and controlling the illegal trade of Amazon stingrays.
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In a recent report (MAAP #199), we presented the updated version of NASA’s GEDI data,1 which uses lasers aboard the International Space Station to provide cutting-edge estimates of aboveground carb…
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Biotic pump theory would have radical consequences in a world of rampant deforestation
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Sixteen Big Bet Climate Fellows from Latin America show the Global South is not just a hotspot for climate change challenges, but a powerhouse for innovative solutions.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.
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Indigenous groups and researchers are building literal bridges together to help monkeys and other wildlife cross Brazil's highways.
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The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tipping point, inducing large-scale collapse, has raised global concern1–3. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests remained relatively resilient to climatic variability. Now, the region is increasingly exposed to unprecedented stress from warming temperatures, extreme droughts, deforestation and fires...
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Since 2015, the Amazon has been slower to recover from increasing drought events, but, overall, the rainforest still shows a remarkable resilience. New international research led by KU Leuven Earth and environmental scientists shows that forest degradation due to drought has been most pronounced in the southern Amazon, where human impact is greatest.
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Recent field experiments focusing on a tiny, charismatic frog in southeastern Brazil are beginning to shed light on a disease that has decimated amphibian populations around the world.
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Check out our AWE from the Amazon playlist on YouTube! Full of short videos that capture AWE filled moments and encounters in the Amazon rainforest. Perfect for classroom use or a daily dose of wonder! https://youtube.com/playlist?
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We instituted a plan to maximize the positive impact of air travel to our field sites by striving to protect a highly vulnerable tract of rainforest in Northern Peru. Learn more and donate today: https://morphoinstitute.org/climate-action-plan/
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The AMAZONFACE ProgramA field experiment of unprecedented scope that will expose an area of mature rainforest in the Amazon to a predicted future CO 2 concentration at a research station near Manaus, Brazil, using technology “ Free-Air CO 2 Enrichment” (FACE). Greater knowledge about the functioning of the world’s largest rainforest in light of climate change and the use of that knowledge to guide regional policies on mitigation and adaptation to climate change are part of the legacy the program seeks to establish.
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