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Indigenous Peoples and their relationship to the land is distinctly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. This relationship is also key to confronting the agents of change....hear Indigenous Peoples from across the Peruvian Amazon describe how climate change is effecting them and the biodiversity their cultures and communities depend on. 
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Brazil is the third largest country, by emissions, to have joined the accord.
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Sloths are usually depicted as cute, fuzzy animals that spend lazy days lounging around trees eating leaves. But, according to this paper, those cuddly sloths have a dark side: some of them like to climb into latrines and scarf the slurry of human waste found inside. “The first observation of the unusual feeding habit took place on …
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Yep - We've witnessed this first hand!
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The fashion for wild animal skins and furs drove a hunting boom in the Amazon basin through the 20th century.
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There doesn't need to be deforestation to lose carbon. Loss of large herbivores can lower forest’s capacity to suck carbon dioxide from atmosphere
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Manila Bulletin, the nation's leading newspaper, brings you the latest news and current events in the Philippines and abroad daily, since 1900.
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Science and Technology and Sustainability straight from the Amazon!
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If you've been on the Internet lately, you've probably seen a cat selfie. Now, a Field Museum expedition to the Peruvian Amazon has elevated the animal selfie phenomenon to a whole new level.
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Amazon plants could lead to breakthroughs in antiseptics, medicines and anti-inflammatory drugs if coupled with new technologies, study says By Chris Arsenault RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Amazon rainforest holds the ...
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Sometimes scientists make discoveries in the strangest of places. Like the belly of a poison frog.
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Field biology is just the best!
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The database connects local producers with markets to boost family incomes and help preserve Amazon forests in Brazil and beyond.
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The miracles of nature that Pachamama, or Mother Earth in the Quechuan language, bestows upon us are part of Peruvians' everyday life.
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![Species New to Science: [Entomology • 2016] Emsleyfolium diasae • A New Genus of Katydid from the Amazon Rainforest (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Phaneropterinae; Steirodontini): Ninth Contribution t... | RAINFOREST EXPLORER | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/kLF5WHuNEJ_RgOrC25bMoDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Brazil, host of #Olympics, biodiversity hotspot and full of undescribed species. New katydid genus from the Amazon.
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The highly biodiverse country has rain forest, the Andes and the Galapagos Islands
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Over the past five decades Thomas Lovejoy has helped bring global attention to the Amazonian rainforest and the threats it faces, leading seminal research that has become the foundation of the field of conservation biology — even coining the...
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Crude oil imported to the U.S. from the Amazon, most of which gets refined in California, is driving expansion of oil operations into the rainforest, according to a new report.
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With the world’s largest tropical forest under continuous assault, Brazilian scientists propose rescuing it as a kind of lab to help develop biotechnology products.
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In the rainforest, the color of the water in the river holds the story of the river's origin. A river that passes through hard, rocky areas
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Amazon butterflies swipe food from ants, a never-before-seen behavior, a new study says.
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"At a time when everything seems mapped, measured, and understood, this river challenges what we think we know. ...It is a reminder that there are still great wonders to be discovered.
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From the author...We find them not just in the black void of the unknown but in the white noise of everyday life—in the things we barely notice, the things we almost forget, even in a detail of a story."
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Amazon plants could lead to breakthroughs in antiseptics, medicines and anti-inflammatory drugs if coupled with new technologies, study says
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In recent years numbers of South America’s freshwater dolpins have fallen.
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Inside The Wild Amazon Documentary - #HistoryMovies The Amazon rainforest (Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica, Amazonía o
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The post Inside Brazil’s Battle to Save the Amazon with Satellites and Strike Forces appeared first on Real Leaders.
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A lush Amazon forest, filled with all types of plants, will adjust to climate change better than if it faces biodiversity loss.
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