... PhysOrg.com) -- In a hunt for plants in the Amazon rain forest that have potential to be used for sustainable light-weight construction beams, electronic cases or other high ...
... NASA-funded study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying ...
... NASA-funded study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying ...
... Amazon rain forest is less vulnerable to die off because of global warming than widely believed because ...
... Chinese medicine and by indigenous people of the Amazon rain forest for nausea, indigestion and constipation. Current uses of bitter orange are for heartburn, loss of appetite ...
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed a new 3.8 million acre (1.5 million hectare) Indian reservation Friday in the heart of the Amazon rain forest's logging frontier.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a decree on Friday formally creating the Amazon Fund to fight deforestation of the world’s largest rain forest.
... , Brazil (AP) -- Oil exploration in the Amazon rain forest represents the latest, perhaps greatest, threat to preserving what remains of the world ...
... microorganisms within plants they collected in the Amazon rain forest, including several so genetically ... within the inner tissue of plants - by members of the Rain Forest Expedition and Laboratory course at Yale ...
Vast swathes of "pristine" Amazon rain forest may actually have been sophisticated urban landscapes prior to the arrival of European colonists, anthropologists say.
Hundreds of fruit species flourish in the Amazon region, but relatively few--like antioxidant-rich ... markets. Experts say fruits are a vital part of the Amazon's wealth and may provide important alternatives to timber ...
In the Brazilian Amazon rain forest, a nongovernmental organization is using satellites to uncover deforestation the Brazilian government doesn't find.
BRASILIA, Brazil, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A Brazilian official says deforestation of the Amazon rain forest increased by nearly 4 percent in the year up to July, the first increase in four years' time.
For an ongoing jaguar census, "spy camera" traps in the Amazon rain forest caught 75 jaguar pictures—and one very rare short-eared dog.
... continues. "Also, the beds are threatened by local fishermen in the area. You could compare the situation to that of the Amazon rain forest areas, where huge tracts ...
