The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
Don’t blame climate change for the 39,000 forest fires now incinerating huge tracts of the Brazilian Amazon. This environmental catastrophe is human-made and highly political.
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Biodiversity: it won’t happen overnight
Scientists researching tree frogs in the Amazon say they might have solved the question of why so many species are crammed…
We spent a year photographing the animal crop raiders of the Amazon – here are the results
Three researchers studied the “crop raiders” of the Brazilian rainforest in the hope of aiding both local farmers and wildlife conservation.
Predicting climate change disasters
Climate change disasters such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet or the dieback of the Amazon rainforest could be…
Brazil fiddles in Paris while the Amazon burns
The country must protect its huge forests from fires and logging.
New study shows how Amazon trees use recent rainfall in the dry season and support the production of their own rain
Researchers explain how trees in the rainforest efficiently recycle water through rain to keep themselves hydrated in the dry season.
Dwindling tropical rainforests mean lost medicines yet to be discovered in their plants
Destruction of rainforests through wildfires or deforestation may harm human health. As these forests disappear, we may be losing precious medicinal plants that hold treatments for various diseases.
Farmed prawns have bigger carbon footprint than beef
One hundred grams of farmed prawns can have a carbon footprint equivalent to burning 90 liters of gasoline, and 10 times…
Lost microbes are eroding Amazon’s ability to capture carbon
Beneath the lush forests of the Amazon is a whole different level of diversity that new research says may be one of the keys to understanding how to stem the global impacts of deforestation. The Amazon…
Dung beetles help rainforests regrow – but extreme drought and wildfires in the Amazon are killing them off
A new study finds 70% of Amazonian dung beetles were killed by the severe fire and droughts of 2015 to 2016. By spreading seeds and poop, dung beetles fertilize forests and aid regrowth of vegetation.