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Plants have evolved ways to make ants defend them from attacks and spread their seeds, and this new study shows how it happened. In a new study breaking down the genetic history of 1,700 species of ants and 10,000 plant genera, researchers found that the long history of ant and plant co-evolution... 
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A growing body of evidence indicates that the continuing destruction of tropical forests is disrupting the movement of water in the atmosphere, causing major shifts in precipitation that could lead to drought in key agricultural areas in China, India, and the U.S.
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The Amazon, one of the Earth’s last remaining frontiers, teems with a rich diversity of plant and animal life, many species of which still remain undiscovered. This melting-pot of life is a well-oiled machine and is a wonder in itself, providing the Amazon’s residents with the essentials they...
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Peruvian lawmakers approved a bill that will allow the government to build roads in remote regions of the Amazon rainforest that are home to indigenous groups. The law, which was described as a "priority of national interest" by the government on Monday, has been condemned by indigenous leaders and conservationists Lizardo Cauper, head of Peru's federation of native Amazon peoples, Aidesep, told The Guardian that the infrastructure projects in the remote Amazon regions don't benefit the indigenous people living there. "This is an area with isolated people who are extremely vulnerable," he said. "Roads bring outsiders who traffic our land, log our timber, as well as drug traffickers and illegal miners."
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A new study makes a significant contribution to the growing body of research showing that recognizing the land rights of and partnering with indigenous peoples can greatly benefit conservation efforts. “The dearth of reliable data on Indigenous Peoples’ lands in many parts of the world has implications not only for securing their rights but also …
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Traditional farming strategies could protect humanity against global warming and prevent deadly wildfires. Yet scientists seem determined to ignore them
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Climate Home News: In 1996, Osvaldo Wuaru and his family arrived on the outskirts of the vast Munduruku Amazon Territory with a crucial mission: set up a village to hold back the invasion of pariwat (non-indigenous) gold miners. Twenty-one years later, it has all but failed
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Insects have triumphed for hundreds of millions of years in every habitat but the ocean. Their success is unparalleled, which makes their disappearance all the more alarming
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The vastness that makes the Amazon rainforest so diverse and fertile also makes it extremely difficult to protect. Rainforest Connection is a project started back in 2014 that used solar powered second-hand phones as listening stations that could alert authorities to sounds of illegal logging. And …
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ALERT researchers released today a one-minute video that shows how a massive development scheme in Brazil could effectively chop the Amazon — the world's greatest rainforest — in half. Brazil is currently working to complete a dramatic upgrade to the BR-319 Highway, an 870 kilometer-long road segmen
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The Yaguas National Park is home to a staggering diversity of wildlife, including neotropical migrants from North America in the winter.
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Forest fires emit twice as much carbon in the Brazilian Amazon as deforestation, according to new research.
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A single season of drought in the Amazon rainforest can reduce the forest's carbon dioxide absorption for years after the rains return, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. This is the first study to ...
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An international team of researchers from Ecuador and Peru has discovered two new frog species living in the tropical rainforests of the Amazon basin — and named one of them after famous American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. The two new species — Dendropsophus kamagarini and D. kubricki — belong to the genus Dendropsophus, the most diverse genus of treefrogs in the Neotropics.
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Drone footage is building up the missing data on dolphin populations that is crucial to ensuring their protection and long-term survival...
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About half of the oil exports from the Western Amazon Basin come to California to be processed by refineries and used by consumers in the state. This means that more oil from the Amazon rainforest is used in California than anywhere else in the world.
The Morpho Institute's insight:
Hey California friends - this is imporant!
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This study highlights the far-reaching importance of tropical regions -- comprising rainforests, savannas and mountain ecosystems, among others -- in sustaining the world's biodiversity. Most tropical ecosystems are now threatened due to human activities, and many species are on the edge of extinction, further highlighting the need for immediate and widespread protection.
The Morpho Institute's insight:
Not a huge surprise, but very interesting in the context of lanscape evolution and global biodiversity distribution! You go mother Amazon, you go!
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We are destroying the world’s biodiversity. Yet debate has erupted over just what this means for the planet – and us.
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Sometimes conservation controversies explode so fast in one place that it becomes almost white-hot. That’s what’s happening right now in the Amazon—with a cyclonic mix of good and bad news. We summarize here some of the key highlights. GOOD NEWS BIG NEW PARK First, Peru has just declared an expansi
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The experiment in reforestation involves spreading native seeds instead of planting saplings
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How to handle the challenges you'll come across when photographing Amazon rainforest animals.
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The effect of hunting on the Amazon rainforest's ecosystem may not be as devastating as previously thought, according to a new study by the University of Connecticut and the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation and Research. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
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