... a statement from Dr. Sandy Andelman, co-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 Amazon rainforest may be the largest reservoir of soil microbes on Earth, yet most are unknown to science, according to microbiologist Klaus Nusslein. But it's clear the area is under great threat ...
... rainforest, so crucial to the Earth’s climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air ... twenty-first century climate change on the Amazon rainforest. They compared the model to data from the 2005 ...
Brazil launches an international fund to protect the Amazon rainforest but warns against foreign interference in its policy.
Vast swathes of the Western Amazon are to be opened up for oil and gas exploration, putting some of the planet's most pristine and biodiverse forests at risk, conservationists have warned
... of models that maximize and minimize extinction rates.
The Amazon basin contains about 40 percent of the world's remaining rainforest. One of the fundamental characteristics of tropical forests is ...
A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is likely a descendant of the very ...
Norway pledges $1bn to a new fund to help Brazil preserve its Amazon rainforest and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
... in ecological communities remains elusive. The most complex biological systems—such as tropical rainforests—are the most important testing grounds for theories that attempt to generalize across ...
Trees in a hyper-diverse tropical rainforest interact with each other and their environment to create and maintain diversity, researchers report in the journal Science. This study was conducted in the ...
The destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has accelerated for the first time in four years, officials say.
The Amazon rainforest may be less vulnerable to severe drying as a result of global warming than previously thought, a study suggests.
... will fail to
save the jungle, experts sayGlobal warming will wreck attempts to
save the Amazon rainforest, according to a devastating new study
which predicts that one-third of its trees will be ...
... Southeast Asia. It could easily become a threat to the Amazon rainforest because of a proposed change in Brazil's ... to retain 80 percent forest on lands in the Amazon. The new law would allow up to 30 ...
... the pace of road-building has accelerated in recent years in many parts of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, including in many reserves. Especially important are the region's indigenous reserves, ...
