Amazonia at a crossroads
The Amazon rainforest faces an uncertain future – one that an international research network hopes to help steer towards sustainability.
Environment
Oct 17, 2013
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Colombia natives get tablets to study in local languages
Some 3,600 indigenous Colombians who dropped out of school have received digital tablets to enable them to resume studying in their native languages, officials said Wednesday.
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2013
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Parts of Amazon on the verge of forest-to-grassland shift
The stability of the Amazon rainforest, and the ecosystem's resilience to widespread deforestation, may be much lower than previously thought. The replacement of stands of trees with grassland changes evapotranspiration rates ...
Environment
Sep 3, 2013
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LSU research responsible for naming 15 new species of Amazonian birds
An international team of researchers coordinated by ornithologist Bret Whitney of the LSU Museum of Natural Science, or LSUMNS, recently published 15 species of birds previously unknown to science. The formal description ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 28, 2013
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Brazil Amazon town takes a stand against deforestation
When farmer Luiz Martins Neto first moved to Sao Felix do Xingu a quarter of a century ago, the area had virgin forest, gold and a reservation for the local indigenous people.
Environment
Aug 21, 2013
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Brazil sends more inspectors to Amazon rainforest
Brazil's environment minister says the government has increased the number of its inspectors in the Amazon rainforest to help halt a rise in illegal deforestation.
Environment
Aug 15, 2013
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A new metric to help understand Amazon rainforest precipitation
In the Amazon rainforest, the chain of events that turns a small-scale process like a localized increase in evaporation into a towering storm cloud is long and twisted. To understand the complex dynamics that lead to precipitation, ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2013
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Linguistic puzzler
Wandering through his university's library in São Paulo one day in 2002, Rafael Nonato noticed a book titled "Language." Curious, he pulled it off the shelf.
Social Sciences
Jul 22, 2013
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Climate conditions determine Amazon fire risk
(Phys.org) —Using an innovative satellite technique, NASA scientists have determined that a previously unmapped type of wildfire in the Amazon rainforest is responsible for destroying several times more forest than has ...
Environment
Jun 8, 2013
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Amazon deforestation reduced by nearly 84%, Brazil says
Brazil said Wednesday it has reduced Amazon deforestation by nearly 84 percent over the past eight years and is nearing its international target for slowing devastation of the world's largest rainforest.
Environment
Jun 5, 2013
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