The sudden spate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is an alarming development brought on by rising food prices and lack of rain, officials say.
... the next several decades. First, they estimate that the Brazilian Amazon has (or had) 11,210 large tree ... to 33 percent overall.
Would a simpler Amazon forest lacking many of its rarer trees function? ...
Researchers explain how an urban culture flourished 1,500 years ago in what are now the overgrown jungles of the Brazilian Amazon.
The demand for beef means large swaths of the Brazilian Amazon are being bulldozed,but the government is making changes.
... Conservation Science, that oil palm expansion in the Brazilian Amazon is likely to occur at the expense of natural ... retain 80 percent forest on lands in the Amazon. The new law would allow up to 30 ...
... , because 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 ...
Rainforest reserves -- even those disturbed by roads -- provide an important buffer against fires that are devastating parts of the Brazilian Amazon, according to a new study.
A study shows that areas for environmental protection significantly reduce fires in the Brazilian Amazon.
... changes in the average life expectancy, literacy and per capita income of people living in 286 Brazilian Amazon municipalities with varying levels of deforestation. The Amazon is ...
... computer modeling on the region. Their study assumed the worst-case scenario – that all of the Brazilian Amazon not protected by the government would be deforested.
Even under this scenario, their ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Researchers have discovered a new sub-species of monkey in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest, a U.S.-based wildlife conservation group said on Tuesday.
In the Brazilian Amazon rain forest, a nongovernmental organization is using satellites to uncover deforestation the Brazilian government doesn't find.
NASA is funding researchers in South Dakota to track biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazon. South Dakota State University's Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence is teaming up with ...
... expand in many, many ways, and reproductively, social support has been an important avenue."
In the Brazilian Amazon where Piperata has been working, the average length of time between births is 27 ...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, ...
