To Save the Amazon Rainforest, It Helps to Learn About Fish
High fish diversity is a good indicator of forest health. Think of the Amazon, and you probably think of jaguars, monkeys, or parrots. But many…
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Amazon Forest Regrowth Much Slower Than Thought – May Take Well Over a Century to Fully Recover
The regrowth of Amazonian forests following deforestation can happen much slower than previously thought, a new study shows. The findings could have significant impacts for…
Increased Melting of Tropical Glaciers Caused by Amazon Fires
Burning of the rainforest in southwestern Amazonia (the Brazilian, Peruvian and Bolivian Amazon) may increase the melting of tropical glaciers in the Andes, according to…
Amazon’s Burning Crisis: Deforestation and Number of Fires Show 2019 Not a ‘Normal’ Year
The fires that raged across the Brazilian Amazon this summer were not ‘normal’ and large increases in deforestation could explain why, scientists show. The perceived…
NASA: Amazon Fires Were Fueled by Drought-Stressed Forest
A new satellite-based map of a section of the Amazon Basin reveals that at least some of the massive fires burning there this past summer…
Human Activities Are Drying Out the Amazon – Ecosystems Vulnerable to Fires and Drought
A new NASA study shows that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon rainforest has been drying out, increasing the demand for…
Record Shattered for Loudest Bird Call Ever Measured by White Bellbirds in Amazon [Video]
Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on October 21, 2019, have captured the loudest bird calls yet documented. The calls are the mating songs…
New Record for Loudest Bird Call Set During Mating Ritual
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Brazilian institute researchers record top avian noisemaker. Biologist Jeff Podos at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with Mario Cohn-Haft at…
Widespread Chytrid Fungus Infections Found in 80 Species of Frogs in Peruvian Amazon Rain Forests
University of Michigan biologists have documented, for the first time, the widespread presence of the notorious chytrid fungus in 80 species of frogs from lowland…
Deeper Insight Into 2019 Fires From Satellite Study of Amazon Rainforest
Throughout August and early September 2019, media around the world have reported on the extensive forest fires ravaging Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Much of the concern…
NASA’s ECOSTRESS Detects Amazon Fires from International Space Station
NASA’s Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) captured imagery of fires in the Amazon regions of Brazil and Bolivia on August 23,…
NASA Satellite Image: Amazon Fires Shroud South America in Smoke
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite collected this natural-color image using the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument on August 21, 2019. Smoke from the fires…
Carbon Monoxide From Brazil Fires Mapped by NASA Satellite
New data from NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument, aboard the Aqua satellite, shows the movement high in the atmosphere of carbon monoxide associated with…
Amazon Rainforest Absorbing Less Carbon Than Expected
New study finds that insufficient nutrient supply has not been properly accounted for in ecosystem models. Agriculture, forestry, and other types of land use account…
Wall Street Secrets Used to Reduce the Cost of Cloud Infrastructure
“Risk-aware” traffic engineering could help service providers such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google better utilize network infrastructure. Stock market investors often rely on financial risk…
Archaeologists Reveal Evidence of Hidden Populations in the Amazon
Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research…
Evidence That The Southern Amazon Rainforest Triggers Its Own Rainy Season
New research gives the first observational evidence that the southern Amazon rainforest triggers its own rainy season using water vapor from plant leaves. The new…
Shedding Light on the Role of Forests in Carbon Sequestration
Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed an analytical method that combines satellite images, simulation modeling and fieldwork to help detect forest mortality patterns and trends,…