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This is the time of year subsistence farmers clear land by setting fires in the Amazon. They say it's the only way they can make a living, but it's delivering another blow to the rain forest. 
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In an unlikely collaboration with Amazonian shamans, medical researchers seek a cure for autoimmune disease.
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Top 10 things to do on an Amazon Rainforest Workshop! Check out our brand new video - created just for us by those great folks at Untamed Science
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Did a biblical-scale flood—or the rise of the Andes—give the Amazon its amazing biodiversity?
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Journey into the Amazon region, where thousands of species live in a delicate balance that’s imperiled by logging, mining, agriculture, roadbuilding, oil, and gas drilling.
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Hot off the press! The Nov. 15 Nat. Geo magazine is all about climate change with a special section on the AMAZON! Check out this online resource that compliments the print magazine.
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October 21, 2015 5:53 PM
Hot off the press - the Nov. 2015 of Nat. Geo. Magazine focuses on climate change with a special feature on the AMAZON!
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In May 2015, my school sent a group of students and teachers to the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. I was among them, and was tasked with documenting what we did and learned in the week we were there. What followed were these blogs.
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Check out these FABULOUS blog posts from one of our 2015 Student Field Reporters. Amazing writing and storytelling!
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When canopy-dwelling spiders are dropped from great heights, they don’t just fall. They skydive.
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Some of this research was done at our study site - the ACTSPeru canopy walkway! Bonus: NSTA Reports featured this research on the back cover of their November 2015 issue!
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What an extraordinary group of student explorers led by one amazing leader! It was our privileged to work with them last summer and If they are any indication, there is indeed HOPE for the future.
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Holding formal individual property rights is widely seen as a boon for reducing poverty, conflict and environmental degradation.
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You think protecting the Amazon is an outdated issue? Think again. The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is a nonprofit organization that works in partnership w...
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Yes!!!
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Rivers, Oceans, and Rainforests
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Brazil, Peru and Colombia all have major holdings in Amazonia, and all have diverging policies that have had varying success in curbing deforestation.
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Recent scientific discoveries show the Amazon might control the climate for much of South America. The theory could point to potentially disastrous ramifications if deforestation continues.
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...today my students had a chance to do some real science! They observed a small area of the rainforest floor and canopy, and came up with research questions that would blow the College Board out of the Amazon River!
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"Western medicine is the most sophisticated system of healing ever devised, but it's still got a lot of holes in it."
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Rainforests are full of bats, and with over 1,300 known species around the world bats really do come in all shapes and sizes.
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Ecuador's Kichwa tribe fights against oil companies to protect the environment in the Amazon.
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“Disconnected from the electronic devices that tend to eat up so much of our time and energy back home, our team of 28 citizen scientist volunteers reconnected with nature while in the Amazon--experiencing the various sights, sounds, textures,...”
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Reflections from our friends, Dr. Meg Lowman on her 2015 Citizen Science Expedition to the Amazon with the California Academy of Sciences
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Amazon field guide The 'hairy saki' (Pithecia hirsuta) From camera traps in the canopy in Maijunalands on the Rio Napo, Peru Following Laura Marsh's (2014) n...
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In the minds of many people, the life of a field biologist can be overly romanticized, assumed to be exceptionally perilous, or sometimes even thought of as superfluous or escapist. Of course, non…
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Healthy forests protect our climate and moderate our weather. As the ‘Godzilla’ El Niño builds in the weeks ahead of Paris talks, it is a timely warning that deforestation is partly to blame for its impacts
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Atlas Obscura Amazon Tribes Want to Remain Isolated–So They're Getting the Internet Atlas Obscura For conservation groups, it's also been a way to put the environmental management of the country in the hands of the people who know its forests and...
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For hundreds of thousands of rural families eking out a living in Brazil’s Amazon estuary, living with flooding is a daily reality.
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