Two leading ecologists say a rapid proliferation of roads across the planet is causing irreparable damage to nature, but properly planned roads could actually help the environment.
Environment
Mar 20, 2013
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Even ten years after wildfire, numbers of the most vulnerable Amazon bird species still haven't returned to normal levels, say scientists.
Ecology
Feb 25, 2013
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For over a century, the rubber tappers of Acre, Brazil collected the valuable sap of the rubber trees from the forests of the western Amazon. As the demand for natural rubber declined, however, the Brazilian government sought ...
Environment
Feb 22, 2013
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Recent droughts in the Amazon rainforest have effects that persist long after the rains have returned, a new study has shown.
Environment
Feb 7, 2013
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Brazil will undertake the massive task of cataloging the trees of the Amazon, in an effort to better monitor and protect the world's largest tropical forest, the environment ministry announced Friday.
Ecology
Jan 25, 2013
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(Phys.org)—An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study. These results, together with observed recurrences ...
Environment
Jan 18, 2013
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The Amazon rainforest, energy grids, and cells in the human body share a troublesome property: They possess multiple stable states. When the world's largest tropical forest suddenly starts retreating in a warming climate, ...
General Physics
Jan 6, 2013
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An international team of microbiologists led by Klaus Nüsslein of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found that a troubling net loss in diversity among the microbial organisms responsible for a functioning ecosystem ...
Environment
Dec 24, 2012
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(Phys.org)—While traveling with a group of researchers in the Amazon rain forest this past September, biologist Phil Torres came upon a type of spider he'd never seen before. Upon closer inspection, it turned out the spider ...
New genetic analysis has revealed that many Amazon tree species are likely to survive man-made climate warming in the coming century, contrary to previous findings that temperature increases would cause them to die out.
Evolution
Dec 13, 2012
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