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Reversing the damage from fires in Brazil’s rainforest is not as simple as allowing trees to grow back. Decades of research shows how fires degrade their long-term health and utility.
After five centuries of extraction, the Amazon region stands on the brink.
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.
Who has the right to use an Amazon domain name? The people who live there or a company with the same name?
Brazil’s new president could clear the way for plans to develop remote areas around the Tapajos River basin over the objections of the indigenous people who live there.
At the Maningrida football Grand Final in 2015, commentary was recorded in nine languages. But elsewhere, the threat of language loss poses a serious risk to our nation’s cultural inheritance.
How can there be boom in new species discoveries while others are dying out at unprecedented rates?
The Amazon’s largest dam is nearly complete. But the social and environmental costs of huge hydropower projects are just not worth it.
Rivers are natural boundaries for evolving populations. But scientists don’t agree whether they create new species or just help maintain them. Research using birds’ molecular clocks provides some answers.
The illegal timber trade is a huge global business worth up to US$150 billion yearly. One way to curb it is by convincing consumers in wealthy countries that buying contraband wood products is wrong.
Indigenous communities lived in the Amazon for thousands of years without chopping down their forests.
A mythical Amazonia of lost tribes or lost cities is easy to challenge on a factual basis, but such objections appear rather feeble in the face of the power of cliché.
The history of the rubber ‘boom’ reveals why.
Forest fires emit twice as much carbon in the Brazilian Amazon as deforestation, according to new research.
Promises to consult with indigenous groups are routinely ignored as Peru eyes up the natural resources found in its rainforests.
They are contesting the maps that deny them territorial rights.
Remote tribes are supposedly safeguarded by a UN declaration, yet a recent alleged mass murder shows they are still vulnerable.
Brazil claims mining and logging will boost the economy and help it protect the environment. But there is little evidence this works.
From the Amazon to Nicaragua, there are humans who never learn numbers. What can these anumeric cultures teach us about ourselves?
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Richmond
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Associate Professor of Geography, Lancaster University
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Political Ecology, Lancaster University
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Professor, Charles Darwin University
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Researcher in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA); Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
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Lecturer in Politics & International Political Sociology, Queen Mary University of London
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Postdoctoral Researcher, TROPIBIO Project, Universidade do Porto
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Associated Researcher, Biology, Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Research Institute
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
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Professor of Tropical Conservation Ecology, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Anthropology, Università di Bologna
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Professor of Zoology, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
