... -author of the study titled "Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest" and Vice-President of the TEAM Network at Conservation International: "With most of the climate change debate focusing ...
... Amazon rainforest may be the largest reservoir of soil microbes on Earth, yet most are unknown to science, according to microbiologist Klaus ...
BOSTON, March 16 (UPI) -- A NASA-funded study contradicts a previous U.N. report that the Amazon rainforests thrive during long droughts.
... . A self-contained hydrological cycle above the Amazon rainforest More than 80 % of supermicron particles, which have a diameter ... . "We are already able to say that the number of cloud droplets over the Amazon rainforest is aerosol-limited, which means that it depends ...
... Amazon Rainforest, Manaus, Brazil Take a deep breath. via io9 The full ramifications ... it? You climb up into the canopy in the remotest part of the Amazon rainforest and take a deep breath. That's exactly ...
... forestry industry in a highly sensitive part of the Amazon rainforest has just become more sustainable thanks to the work of a team of researchers. They produced an inventory of extensive ...
The Brazilian government must decide whether to approve proposals to relax the Forest Code, which is designed to protect the Amazon rainforest.
... above the Amazon rainforest may look like an endless, uniform sea of greenery, but it turns out there are sharp lines through ...
... the assessment of climatic tipping elements like the Amazon rainforest. Under unabated global warming ... the characteristics in terms of precipitation, temperature, soil of rainforests and savannas under defined climatological conditions ...
PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A study confirms an area of the Amazon rainforest twice as big as California still suffers from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, NASA said.
BRASILIA, Brazil, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Brazil's Forestry Ministry says it plans to do an inventory of the trees in the Amazon rainforest -- an undertaking that will take four years to complete.
... and biological reserves have been more effective at reducing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest than so-called sustainable-use areas that allow for controlled resource extraction, two University ...
... to cropland and ranchland at twice the rate of the neighboring Amazon rainforest, resulting in the loss of native vegetation and unique species. An expedition comprising scientists from Conservation ...
... , resulting in a heightened risk of drought in the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest contains about one tenth of the total ... of twenty-first century climate change on the Amazon rainforest. They compared the model to data from the 2005 ...
... ever recorded. In just a few hectares of rainforest in the Amazon basin of eastern Ecuador, they have found more than 100 ... of Costa Rica, the slopes of the Andes and a site in the Amazon rainforest of Eastern Ecuador, at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station1 ...
