The eastern part of Brazil's Amazon Basin and rainforests, located in the state of Pará, is highlighted in this Envisat image.
... compared the model to data from the 2005 drought, which caused widespread devastation across the Amazon basin. The researchers estimate that by 2025 a drought on this scale could happen every other ...
Aerial photographs of an isolated community of indigenous people in the Amazon basin were released to show that they exist but may be endangered by illegal logging.
... -- may have promoted the evolution of new insect species in the Amazon region of South America, a new study suggests. The Amazon basin is home to the richest diversity of life on earth, ...
... models that maximize and minimize extinction rates.
The Amazon basin contains about 40 percent of the world ... 33 percent overall.
Would a simpler Amazon forest lacking many of its rarer trees function ...
The remote Amazon basin was once home to complex urban communities, according to a study in Science journal.
The Amazon basin is well known for its wide variety of species, but the rainforest might owe some credit to the mountains as a source for that rich diversity.
... , jaguars, anteaters and anacondas.
In Brazil, the government has set aside about 37 percent of the Amazon basin as protected area, Walker said.
Meanwhile, about 17 percent of the Brazilian Amazon ...
Brazil hosts a regional summit on how to save the Amazon basin from continuing deforestation and climate change.
... the highest number of bat species ever recorded.
In just a few hectares of rainforest in the Amazon basin of eastern Ecuador, they have found more than 100 species of bats (Biological Journal of the ...
... promoted the evolution of new insect species in the Amazon region of South America, a new study ... possible, for instance, that both ancient flooding of the Amazon basin as well as more recent, ice age ...
... 're seeing in the patterns of genetic diversity is a signature of that forest history."
In the core Amazon Basin, which was moist throughout the glacial period, allowing for more or less continuous ...
... only person in
the world beyond the sweeping banks of the Maici river in the
Amazon basin who can speak Pirahã.Just 350 Pirahã (pronounced
Pee-da-HAN) hunt and gather from their ...
... darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies ...
... Steiner, a soil scientist whose research in the Amazon Basin originally focused on the use of biochar as a soil ... . Soils containing biochar made by ancient Amazon people still contain up to 70 times ...
