Tag: Amazonia
Unprecedented drought in the Amazon threatens to release huge stores of...
Gemma Ware, The Conversation
As world leaders and their climate negotiators gathered at the COP28 climate summit in...
The Amazon is not safe under Brazil’s new president – a...
Robert T. Walker, University of Florida
Conservationists breathed a sigh of relief when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won...
The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season that has charred 1,330 square...
Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro
Robert T. Walker, University of Florida
Over the past 25 years that I have been conducting environmental research in the Amazon, I have witnessed the...
Bird DNA helps explain Amazonian rivers’ role in evolution
Luciano Nicolas Naka, Harvard University
When the young naturalist Alfred R. Wallace left England to explore the New World in 1848, one of his key...
EXPLORING NATURE
Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...
Ellen Welti, Smithsonian Institution
More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend...
