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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?
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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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What is your theory about why there are holes in the cocoon? Tweet this: http://bit.ly/TwtCacoon Share on FB: http://bit.ly/FBCocoon ⇊ Click to Expand! ⇊ Ple...
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Amazing - just amazing...the design of this moth cocoon from Peru begs the question "why"...what design principles are in play and what can we learn from them...
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More info on this crazy, fence-building organism from the Peruvian Amazon!
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Mysterious Unidentified Rainforest Insect Builds Fence The mystery began in a Peruvian Amazon rain forest in South America. Graduate student Tony Alexander of Georgia Tech stumbled onto fascinating...
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Once again the Peruvian Amazon surprises and inspires us with yet another new discovery!
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Conserving tropical rainforests is the single greatest thing we can do to reduce carbon emissions.
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Mishquipanga (Renealmina alpina) is the first in a series of videos produced by the Center for Amazon Community Ecology about dye plants of the Peruvian Amaz...
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In the Amazon, dyes for coloring clothes and fibers don't come out of a box from the store! They come directly from plants and the colors can be amazing.
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As the world’s population increases and agricultural frontiers expand into native tropical habitats, researchers are working furiously to understand the impacts on tropical forests and global biodiversity.
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Tropical forests regions like the Amazon not only have more species to be lost in absolute terms, but also contain relatively more sensitive, vulnerable and endemic species that are likely threatened by both pesticide use and agricultural land expansion.
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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"
The Morpho Institute's insight:
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.
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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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First video released of new spider that builds decoys of other spiders! Read more about the spider here: http://bit.ly/NewSpider Tweet this video: http://bit...
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But oil drilling there is about to be vastly expanded.
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"This experience is among the top life experiences I've had and I would go back in a heart beat. I have been deeply changed by this trip, on so many levels. It was really great to share these experiences with like-minded educators and build new friendships as a result. It's ALL good!"
– D.D, middle school educator and 2013 Academy Participant
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Registration is now open for this fantastic professional development opportunity set in the heart of the Amazon rainforest!
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NPR Episode 433: Holding A Rainforest Hostage? NPR Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, a pristine corner of the Amazon rainforest, is home to jaguars, giant otters, and the golden-mantled tamarin.
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Many Awá are still uncontacted, and they are running for their lives. http://www.survivalinternational.org/awa "One man has the power to stop the loggers: Br...
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So easy to trivialize the plight of indigenous tribes who are making a choice to remain "unconctacted." How would you feel if you and your community wanted to make this same choice?
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Authorities perplexed as more than 100 members of clan that has almost no contact with outsiders threaten to cross river
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