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March 26, 2015 8:24 PM
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Like those breakfast cereals that look healthy on the box but have even more sugar inside than Cocoa Puffs, some rainforest trees engage in false advertising. It’s not their fault—it’s ours.
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March 26, 2015 12:07 PM
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A giant Brazil nut tree in the Unamat forest, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru.
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March 26, 2015 12:06 PM
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View of the Juruena River, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Icaro Cooke Vieira/CIFOR photo
BOGOR, Indonesia—A tropical forest: A habitat for wildlife, untouched by humans? Or trees ripe to be cleared for profit?
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March 18, 2015 8:03 PM
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Out-of-court settlement ends long legal battle for compensation for deaths, birth defects and environmental damage allegedly caused by Occidental’s pollution Members of the indigenous Achuar tribe from the Peruvian Amazon have won an undisclosed...
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March 18, 2015 8:01 PM
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The Huaorani Ecolodge promises a unique and immersive cultural experience – but at the expense of the people who struggle to maintain a life in the rainforest At an internet cafe in Coca, a city near the Ecuadorian Amazon, Felipe Googles Huaorani,...
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March 6, 2015 10:07 AM
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For the first time ever, scientists have discovered direct evidence of the rate at which individual trees in the Amazon rainforest "inhale" carbon from the atmosphere during a severe drought.
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March 3, 2015 8:58 PM
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Mainstream climatologists predict a 15% fall in rainfall over the Amazon if it is stripped of its rainforest. But the 'biotic pump' theory, rooted in conventional physics and recently confirmed by experiment, shows that the interior of a forest-free Amazon will be as dry as the Negev desert. We must save the Amazon before it enters a permanent and irreversible dessication.
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March 3, 2015 7:29 AM
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In the Brazilian Amazon, conservation efforts have led to a resurgence of the Pirarucu, one of the largest freshwater fish in the world.
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March 2, 2015 8:55 AM
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If you are an armchair botanist, however, it is full of the wisdom and insight of a 50-year love affair with the Amazon.
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March 1, 2015 8:13 AM
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“We’re really going to try to highlight awareness and understanding of the conservation of the Amazon rainforest for the purpose of making sure that we have good access to medicinal plants over time,” said Bruck. “As the forest ecosystems are degraded and eventually lost through poor agricultural practices, we lose an opportunity to study species and the way indigenous tribes use medicinal plants. The students were really interested in a ‘forest to pharmacy’ concept.”
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February 25, 2015 5:21 PM
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Brazil has arrested Ezequiel Antonio Castanha, who allegedly cleared an area two and a half times the size of Manhattan.
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February 23, 2015 11:08 AM
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Evidence of ancient Amazonian civilization deep under the canopy of the rainforest is hoping to be revealed under a new initiative by international scientific agencies.
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February 19, 2015 8:15 PM
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Although ants and termites are small insects, they are the most abundant animals in many tropical ecosystems, including tropical rainforests
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March 26, 2015 8:23 PM
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Biting the head off a four-inch grub comes with a unique set of challenges. These wrinkly white insects—offspring of the Rhynchophorus palmarum beetle—have viscous guts the consistency of melted bu...
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March 26, 2015 12:06 PM
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Carbon absorbed by rainforest is falling, which means even greater cuts to manmade emissions are needed, warn scientists.
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March 18, 2015 8:04 PM
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Peru is uniquely positioned to provide a model for the world of how a country can use its own resources -- like the exotic fruits of the forest -- and culture to sustain itself....
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March 18, 2015 8:03 PM
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Climate change is impacting birds across the world as seasons shift. Now, though, scientists have taken a closer look at the white-collared manakin and have found that habitat degradation and climate shifts may impact this species survival.
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March 8, 2015 8:30 PM
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Remarkable drawings that shaped the course of science and radically defied gender norms.
At a time when women in science were a rarity, G
Thirteen million years ago, as many as seven different species of crocodiles hunted in the swampy waters of what is now northeastern Peru, new research shows.
Via Paulo Gervasio
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March 3, 2015 12:22 PM
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The Amazon is the world's largest tropical forest covering huge regions of South America. So what do you call the Amazon in Spanish?
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March 2, 2015 9:00 AM
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Global intervention in tropical forests to combat climate change could sideline their most effective guardians, warns Fred Pearce
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March 2, 2015 8:50 AM
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"The Amazon is nearly 20 per cent deforested, which may be close to a tipping point in terms of its ability to maintain itself and the climate system and rains that it helps to create," says Thomas Lovejoy, a pioneer in Amazon biodiversity studies, currently at George Mason University.
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February 27, 2015 11:01 AM
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In a study published recently in PLOS ONE, researchers examined Peru's network of protected areas. They found that many of these don't exist in the areas most important for preserving the country's biodiversity and addressing its threats, and suggest alternatives to make the system more effective.
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February 25, 2015 3:33 PM
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Nasa's Calipso satellite found dust clouds carry on average 182 million tons of dust each year between the Sahara desert and the Amazon rainforest.
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February 19, 2015 8:30 PM
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In remote regions of the Peruvian Amazon, extensive gold-mining operations have stirred major environmental concerns over mercury contamination in fish, fish-eating wildlife and humans. In collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports. Continue reading →
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