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RAINFOREST EXPLORER
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New and noteworthy updates from the Amazon Rainforest & the Morpho Institute
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The case study method of teaching applied to college science teaching, from The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
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Excellent teaching resource that uses real case studies - in this example the impact of banana production on tropical ecosystems and people. 
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A new Amazon species was found roughly every three days between 1999 and 2009—among them a ''bluetooth'' tarantula and an electric fish.
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Amazing Amazon...so much remains to be discovered!
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Amazonian People and Cosmetics Giant Work to Save Endangered Rainforest ...
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The southeastern U.S., eastern Canada, and the Amazon Basin could become three of the more heavily used wildlife thoroughfares as species are forced to relocate (Study Maps Likely Wildlife Migration Corridors as Climate Warms - Via Anna Phillips
Anna Phillips's curator insight,
June 24, 2013 5:48 PM
Now more than ever it is important to keep migration corridors in mind when planning cities and new routes.
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A regional forestry official in Peru has expressed surprise over the sudden appearance of a 1000-hectare oil palm plantation in the heart of the Amazon rainforest..
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US consumers unwittingly support illegal logging. Is Washington's new effort to crack down on the practice "just another action plan"?
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Do you know where your wood furniture comes from? Make sure it is from sustainable, certified, sources and not illegallly harvested from the Amazon
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Kelly Swing: President Correa has promised that the most environmentally sound strategies will be employed - but will he follow through?
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Is there a "least damaging" method for oil extraction in the Amazon?
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scientists working with capuchin monkeys in South America had often seen the monkeys grabbing certain types of millipedes, crushing them and then massaging the dead insects into their fur.
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Harvard Professor Scot Martin is studying how pollution affects rainfall and climate change in the Amazon basin near Manaus, Brazil, as part of an internatio...
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The Amazon is the ultimate laboratory and is helping Harvard researchers explore how pollution affects climate change.
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What better place to explore the idea of biomimicry than the Amazon – nature’s hotbed of innovation and inspiration?
The Morpho Institute's insight:
Classroom Connection! You can use Biomimicry as a theme for STEM learning in your classroom - and the Amazon is full of great examples to get you going. Check our our featured blog post on @wandering educators for more info and inspiration!
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Andrew Mitchell from the Global Canopy Programme explains how everything we eat and wear is linked to the world's great rainforests
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Melting ice caps at the poles are not the only concern when thinking about global warming. Increasingly, scientists are realizing that the impact of rising
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When one thinks of bird migrations, it's usually a north-south route that follows seasonal climates.
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Toxic levels of mercury dumped in Amazon rivers gets into food chain, posing serious health risk to children, study finds Indigenous children in Peru's south eastern Amazon, an area where tens of thousands of illegal gold miners operate, have...
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In this new series we look at what happens when our unquenchable thirst for oil leads us to drill in the world's most endangered places -- with terrifying co...
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Great 3min video that explains how our unquenchable thirst for oil is impacting the Amazon
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'This wound no longer heals because it is a very deep wound. There is no healing being done for nature, or for our minds.
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An Unseen World - Winner at the United Nations Forum on Forests 2013 short film contest, shows a collection of camera trap footage taken on an Amazon Rainfor... Via Paige Johnston
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The "pristine" Amazon rainforest was covered by a vast sprawl of interconnected villages between 1,500 and 500 years ago, according to a study that shows how nature has felt the impact of man for much longer than realised.
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If you've ever visited Machu Picchu it is not a stretch to believe that those amazing Incan engineers would have influenced people living in the Amazon...
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"Alex Atala is one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people on the planet and the number one chef in South America. His work championing the people and produce from the Amazon is key to his achievements: Observer Food Monthly joined him as he travelled to Manaus and São Gabriel da Cachoeira"
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The amazing, edible, amazon brought to you by South America's "Top Chef" Alex Atala!
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Research into commercial charcoal markets in Peru has confirmed suspicions about the unreliability of official statistics, while identifying a conservation conundrum.
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Oil palm plantations have deforested thousands of hectares of land in the Peruvian Amazon, according to a recent article by El Comercio.
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The loss of tropical rain forests is likely to reduce the energy output of hydroelectric projects for countries whose economies depend on them.
The Morpho Institute's insight:
You know that big, controversial hydroelectric project in Brazil? The Belo Monte Dam? Scientists project that deforestation throughout the region will result in less rainfall and thereby lead to a 40% DECREASE in the projected energy output...making all the degradation, displacement, and destruction even more incomprehensible.
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