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The Amazon’s path from crisis to durability

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( In the Amazon, a forest can remain on the map while losing much of what makes it function. The Amazon rainforest is often discussed through a few familiar measures: ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New data reveals the impressive progress that restoration projects in the Amazon rainforest have made between 2000 and 2010, ...
Discover the largest rainforest in the world, Amazon rainforest facts, biodiversity, wildlife, climate importance and forest ...
This vivid scene from the Amazon River in Peru captures two striking macaws perched among lush green foliage. Their bright ...
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A team of researchers from Virginia Tech will soon be heading to Brazil’s Amazon rainforest to survey the biodiversity of a square kilometer of the forest while ...
A new study finds that Afro-descendant communities in four Amazonian countries are linked to lands with high biodiversity and 29-55% less deforestation compared with protected and unprotected areas.
An international team of scientists has used artificial intelligence and 35 years of satellite data to uncover the shocking ...
NJIT biologist Eric Fortune and a team of scientists called “Limelight Rainforest” have won the five-year XPRIZE Rainforest Competition, securing half of the competition's $10 million prize purse. The ...
Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.