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Explore the Morpho Institute's conservation efforts and educational programs in the Amazon rainforest with Christa Dillabaugh. Discover their initiatives, challenges, and upcoming projects, advocating for sustainable practices and biodiversity monitoring in the region. 
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The first MAAP report, published in March 2015, took a detailed look at the escalating gold mining deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. The following 198 reports, over the past 8.5 years, continue…
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Climate change, deforestation and other human threats are driving the rainforest towards a tipping point of sustainability. Researchers are racing to chart the Amazon’s future.
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The new global target aims to protect 30 percent of land and waters. But is it a powerful goal or an empty slogan?
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In August 2017 Eliane Brum, one of Brazil’s best-known journalists, moved from the great metropolis of São Paulo to Altamira, a small, violence-plagued
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The Amazon needs us. Our answer is Education. The Morpho Insititute is a conservation education nonprofit providing PD trips to the Amazon, curriculum resources, and much more.
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A new report highlights the discovery of hundreds of new species in the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
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The world’s largest river and rainforest was parched by extreme temperatures last year that would have been highly unlikely without climate change, scientists said.
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Natura's business strategy offers key lessons for other companies that want to conserve the planet, says Wharton's Leandro Pongeluppe.
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Field work on the Rio Negro could help communities exposed to methylmercury protect their food web.
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Today we’re taking a look at the growing movement to restore degraded ecosystems around the globe. Listen here: Ecological restoration refers to a range of human activities designed to promote the recovery of ecosystems that have been so disturbed that their structure has been altered and their healthy functioning has been impaired. Researchers are increasingly […]
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Pumpkin toadlets are in trouble. Progressively severe droughts are disrupting the microbiomes of the thumbnail-sized orange frogs, potentially leaving them vulnerable to a deadly fungal disease, according to a new study by an international research team. The finding suggests that abnormal rainfall patterns, which are expected to worsen due to climate change and deforestation, may upset mutually beneficial relationships between wildlife and microorganisms, leading to biodiversity decline.
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The Amazon needs us. Our answer is education. The mission of the Morpho Institute is to support the key role of education in realizing the global goal of Amazon conservation and sustainability. Learn more about our field programs for K12 educators and connect your classroom to the Amazon with our resources and free webinars. https://morphoinstitute.org/
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Freshwater dolphins face an uncertain future as their waterways heat up. But a Columbian biologist has made it his life's work to advocate for the Amazon's "pink ambassadors."
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New evidence suggests that the Amazon may have been a hive of human industry thousands of years ago—and that it could potentially become that kind of hub again.
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Of the many important reasons to worry about the thousands of fires raging in the world’s largest rainforest, oxygen supply is not one of them.
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So how does anyone tackle a problem so large and complex as trying to reverse deforestation on a major scale? Enter AI.
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The Amazon rain forest is in the middle of a record-breaking drought because of deforestation, El Niño and climate change
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The Amazon Rainforest is Earth's greatest life reserve, and a key part of solving climate change. Explore how our lives are tied to this place and how we can protect it.
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Investors face an urgent challenge in understanding, analyzing and managing biodiversity risks.
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Native to the tropics, these pollinators are taking a lead role in one of the latest efforts to conserve the Amazon rainforest.
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On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, co-host Rachel Donald speaks with Laura Martin, an associate professor of environmental studies at Williams College in Massachusetts. Donald and Martin dive into the restoration vs. preservation debate, and why Martin says a focus on the former is the way to address the biodiversity crisis. Martin defines restoration […]
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To save the Amazon rainforest, Brazil’s President Lula must work out who owns it. But with 22 different agencies registering land claims–and many of them overlapping–it’s not an easy task.
00:00 - How is Amazonian land distributed? 00:27 - How do land claims conflict? 01:15 - How is Lula helping? Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI Read our coverage on the Brazilian Amazon: https://econ.st/3NnFA2l Why the world should pay to conserve rainforests: https://econ.st/48gfnuW Latin America could lead the way on green power: https://econ.st/41hWHbA
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