For millennia, the Indigenous peoples of the western Amazon have been living in balance with the rainforest and the beings and spirits that inhabit it. We
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It is increasingly reported that the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon, is rapidly approaching a tipping point. As repeatedly highlighted by the late Tom Lovejoy (see Acknowledgements), t… 
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The Amazon tipping point at which the rainforest undergoes a process of savannisation has in places already started, a new report argues.
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It was over twenty years ago when locals in Bolivia’s northern plains told archaeologist Heiko Prümers, with the German Archaeological Institute in Bonn, about mysterious mounds of earth in the nearby Amazon that showed signs of a hidden El Dorado. Surrounded by trees and covered in vegetation, it was hard to see what the mounds […]
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The lush biodiversity of the Amazon may be due in part to the dynamics of branching rivers, which serve as invisible fences that continuously barricade and merge bird populations.
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Scientists already knew that where the western Amazon rainforest sits today was once a vast wetland, almost four times the size of Texas and periodically flooded by pulses of seawater. Now, a new study posits that the source of these pulses was most likely the Caribbean Sea, and that there was another — later and […]
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Rapid deforestation outweighs carbon capture by remaining trees
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As hot and muggy as most tropical rainforests are, you only need to leave their florid confines and step onto a recently razed plot of land to feel an immediate difference. In the bright sun, a wall of drier heat greets you, jolting your body with the impulse to return to the shade and humidity […]
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Some spider monkeys living in the Amazon rainforest mostly live on fruit, but choose to eat ones containing larval insects as a way of boosting their protein intake
The Morpho Institute's insight:
Makes sense if you think about it!
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Study finds that trees cool the planet by one-third of a degree through biophysical mechanisms such as humidifying the air.
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New research released today offers the most comprehensive and detailed evidence to date that forests are more important to the climate (globally and locally) than we think due to the way in which they physically transform the atmosphere.
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Changes in precipitation and the potential for more “mega-fires” are major concerns for the Amazon rainforest as the climate continues to change.
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As we know all too well, the essential ecological systems and the human cultures in the Amazon are facing existential threats. Learn how Indigenous leaders are protecting their sacred lands and threatened ecosystems.
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Mongabay is an excellent source for up to date and reliable news about the Amazon. Click through for a whole series of articles.
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Donors are increasingly funding indigenous communities but study says only a fraction of cash is reaching biodiversity frontlines...
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Great source of timely information on deforestation in the Amazon from Mongabay - a leader in Environmental science and conservation news
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“I can only say for now that the whole jungle reverberated in colors we could never even dream of and the results are pretty exciting!”
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The vast extent of a "lost" Amazonian civilization has been revealed by using a helicopter to scan the land below with lasers, resolving a long-standing scientific debate about whether the region coul
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For Earth Day, scientists and conservationists reflect on how nature's beauty and resilience offer them hope.
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Eating wild animals, known collectively as bushmeat or wildmeat, is associated with reduced anemia cases among children living in the Amazon rainforest, a new study reveals.
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Small and often imperceptible to the human eye, insects play a vital role in the environment. “They appeared more than 400 million years before humans,” says Dalton de Souza Amorim, a researcher from the University of São Paulo. “They took part in the evolution of natural environments and are vital in the processes of recycling […]
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Isidoro Hazbun is a conservationist whose career focuses on preserving biodiversity, and empowering communities of the Amazon rainforest that have protected some of the wildest places on earth for centuries.
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For more than 30 years, Shaman Pharmaceutical and its successors have been trying to convert traditional Amazonian knowledge into profitable medicines. So far they have not succeeded.
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