Without birds, tropical forests won’t bounce back from deforestation
Bird diversity may be the secret to forest resilience.
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Peru ends era of ‘roadless wilderness’ in its Amazon rainforests
A neoliberal development plan threatens the biological and cultural integrity of Peru’s Amazon rainforests.
‘Beautiful and terrifying’: how artist Richard Mosse brings us the vast, significant and urgent story of the Amazon’s destruction
Broken Spectre, an immersive, 74-minute-long moving image work, is having its world premiere at the NGV.
Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth
An experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35% compared to non-warmed controls.
The Amazon fire crisis has been 500 years in the making – as Brazil’s indigenous people know only too well
After five centuries of extraction, the Amazon region stands on the brink.
Hunter‑gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality – but the reality is more complicated
Hunter-gatherers do not always seek total equality, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t egalitarian.
We found 2˚C of warming will push most tropical rainforests above their safe ‘heat threshold’
Massive study looked at more than half a million trees in 813 forests across the tropics.
Chopping down areas of tropical rainforest is causing rising temperatures linked to thousands of deaths
A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.
Amazon deforestation cut by 83% in places protected by Indigenous communities – new research
To reduce deforestation and boost biodiversity to help address climate change, returning lands to Indigenous communities is crucial and effective.
Rainforests pump water round the tropics – but the pulse of this heart is weakening
Calling the Amazon “the lungs of the world” overlooks the forest’s vital role in the water cycle.