Tropical forests host an estimated 62% of global terrestrial vertebrate species on less than 20% of the Earth's land area and ...
Tom Lovejoy, an authority on Amazonia -- is still threatened. Why? For the most part, the original threats to the forest remain in place: poverty, population growth, greed, short-term planning.
"When a forest is lost, it is gone forever ... with Para, Mato Grosso, Amazonia and Rondonia states reporting a high number of alerts. In areas around Novo Progresso in Para state, farmers ...
Brazil's National Institute Institute for Space Research (Inpe) has released over this past weekend updated data regarding the deforestation of Amazonia ... of the tropical forest that are key ...
they journey together along the 4000 km from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil to one of its sources in Ecuador where they meet with the guardians of the forest. As a result, we witness ...
Human ingenuity has made cassava edible for millennia. Brazil’s rainforest is a massive carbon store, so its severe drought could be a tipping point for the global climate. Listen to The ...
Human ingenuity has made cassava edible for millennia. Brazil’s rainforest is a massive carbon store, so its severe drought could be a tipping point for the global climate. Listen to The ...