Nemonte Nenquimo, Emergildo Criollo, Sandro Piaguaje, and Taita Pablo Maniguaje are committed to protecting the natural resources of the Ecuadorian and Colombian Amazon.
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Brazil's indigenous people have long struggled to defend their land from invasion by illegal loggers and miners.
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Tropical rainforests store large quantities of carbon dioxide, produce oxygen and provide habitats for many animal and plant species. If these ecosystems, which are so important for the global climate and biodiversity, are ...
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More than just fun to watch, tamarin monkeys play a critical role in rainforest recovery!
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Colonization and environmental vandalism created a crisis in the Amazon that could have alarming consequences for climate change.
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An excellent read and teaching resource
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May 6, 2020 12:44 PM
This article is very factual. It has a lot of great points and is updated regularly. It says that by 2030, roughly 27
5 of the trees in the Amazon will be gone. These numbers are scary and we need to do something to help out our planet.
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In an e360 interview, Carlos Nobre, Brazil’s leading expert on the Amazon and climate change, discusses the key perils facing the world’s largest rainforest, where a record number of fires are now raging, and lays out what can be done to stave off a ruinous transformation of the region.
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You had many questions about the fires burning through the Amazon. Here are some of the answers.
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Our photo of the day comes from the upper Amazon rainforest of Ecuador.
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Watch this video! Leafcutter ants are known for their sustainable farming techniques. They bury the leaves in the ground as nutrients to grow mushrooms, and then eat the mushrooms!
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Our photo of the day comes from the rainforest of Ecuador.
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New research published in the journal Nature Sustainability this month attempts to establish the monetary value of the ecosystem services provided by the world’s largest tropical forest, the Amazon. A research team led by Jon Strand of the World Bank and Britaldo Soares-Filho, a professor at Brazil’s Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), estimated the […]
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Deforestation is on pace to be highest in a decade
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Some species of ants harbor bacteria that produce antifungal compounds. Despite millions of years of evolution, the fungi still haven't become resistant.
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E. voltai is capable of delivering a jolt of 860 volts – much more than the 650 volts previously recorded from electric eels – “making it the strongest bioelectricity generator known”
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The Amazon fires could fuel the decades-long fight that indigenous people have waged for their land.
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New analysis from Mighty Earth shows the incentives for the Amazon's destruction come from international agribusinesses like JBS and Cargill.
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Harvard biologist and longtime Amazon rainforest researcher Brian Farrell discusses how the forest fires raging in Brazil are threatening the planet’s climate, and how to stop them.
Megan Freed's curator insight,
May 5, 2020 10:08 PM
This article starts out by saying how these fires were very much intentional. That is truly shocking to me. Why would people intentionally burn all of this beautiful land? Brian Farrell talked about how these fires were intentionally set for land for cattles and numerous other things. He also talks about the danger these fires are to wildlife. The wildlife are being threatened and killed and are being driven away due to these fires. The land will dry up after the animals leave and will be left with grassland which will not work well with the ecosystem occurring now.
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Improved satellite technology should give us confidence in recent estimates of Amazon deforestation.
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Study suggests Brazil likely to rush to fill China’s sudden soy shortfall by boosting farming...
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Environmentalists fear 2019 will be one of worst years for deforestation in recent memory...
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Protecting the world’s forests ensures they can continue to provide essential functions aside from climate stability, including producing oxygen, filtering water and supporting biodiversity. Not only do all the world’s people depend on forests to provide clean air, clean water, oxygen, and medicines, but 1.6 billion people rely on them directly for their livelihoods.
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Palm oil has become one of the deforestation drivers in the Peruvian Amazon. Amazon Conservation, an NGO has created maps to document over 86,600 hectares (214,000 acres) of oil palm, of which we have confirmed the deforestation of at least 31,500 hectares for new plantations (equivalent to nearly 59,000 American football fields).
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 29 (IPS) - Osprey Orielle Lake is the founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International and co-chair of International Advocacy for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.
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