A Way to Save the Amazon? Lab Manager Magazine Andrew Wilcox, a Master of Arts in Sustainability graduate student, and a team of Wake Forest and Peruvian researchers from the Amazon Conservation Association are working on a solution to reverse this...
Photographer Lunae Parracho followed Kaapor Indian warriors during a jungle expedition to search and expel illegal loggers from the Alto Turiacu Indian territory, Maranhao state, Amazon basin.
Often touted as low-impact, remote oil roads in the Amazon are, in fact, having a large impact on frogs living in flowers in the upper canopy, according to a ne
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must pause for a heavy sigh...and then setting our sights even higher for building Amazon Awareness. Join us in spreading the word that the Amazon - all of it - needs to be protected.
To put an accurate price on carbon, you need to know how much you have and where it's located, researchers say Stanford University scientists have produced the first-ever high-resolution carbon geo...
Peru’s landmass has just been mapped like never before, revealing important insights about the country's forests that could help it unlock the value healthy and productive ecosystems afford humanity.
Here's a challenge: take a conservationist out for a drink and ask them about their work. Nine times out of ten—or possibly more—you'll walk away feeling frustrated, despondent, and utterly hopeless. Yet a few conservation scientist are not just trying to save species from extinction, but also working to save their field—their life's work—from slipping into total despair.
Nature World News Gigantic Amazon Fish is Going Extinct Nature World News Weighting as much as 400 pounds, the massive arapaima fish is likely one of the largest fish you could ever see with your own two eyes.
Need another reason to save the Amazon? Global climate stability. A new study reveals that Peru’s vegetation warehouses 6.9 billion metric tons (7.6 billion tons) of carbon, almost all of it in the Amazon..
Conservationist, indigenous leader killed in plane crash in Colombia Mongabay.com Roberto Franco, a political scientist who worked with the Amazon Conservation Team-Colombia, died when the Piper PA-31 Navajo crashed after takeoff from Araracuara in...
Activists campaign against killing of Amazon dolphins - Activists from the Friends of the Manatee Association (Ampa) have placed a 12-meter-tall inflatable dolphin dummy outside the National Congress. The act was staged as part of a campaign entitled Red Alert, which aims to urge the Ministry of Environment to take action and bring into effect earlier the ban on the fishing of piracatinga (Calophysus macropterus) in the Amazon Rainforest - an activity that entails the use of the dolphin as bait.
Rainforests are our best defense against climate change—but they're being destroyed at a stunning rate. This video uses satellite imagery to reveal the scale of devastation of the Amazon.
While saki monkeys may be characterized by floppy mops of hair that resemble the worst of human toupees, these acrobatic, tree-dwelling primates are essential for dispersing seeds. After long being neglected by both scientists and conservationists, a massive research effort by one intrepid researcher has revealed the full-scale of saki monkey diversity, uncovering five new species.
"Many of our ideas about the natural world and environmentalism can be traced back to two trailblazing 19th century explorers who continue to inspire scientists heading to the Amazon rainforest to identify new species.."
Want to inspire your students to be explorers? Take a trip back in time and introduce them to Alexander von Humboldt - a remarkable man, intrepid explorer, and Amazon adventurer!
The Wall Street Journal calls her "Einstein of the Treetops." National Geographic calls her "the real-life Lorax." She's known as "Canopymeg" for all the tim...
How recycled solar powered phones could save rainforests and change how the ... TechRepublic At the current rate, 5% to 10% of rainforests are lost each decade. As rainforests are destroyed, we sink further into a biodiversity crisis.
Pygmy traits independently evolved many times among different peoples around the world, because shorter heights may have helped them live in rainforests, researchers say.
M2M World News (press release) M2M device saves the Amazon rainforest M2M World News (press release) The Tembe tribe, the indigenous people of Brazil, teams up with a tech start up company, Rainforest Connection to protect its rainforest from...
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