Is the Amazon Rainforest Drying Out?
Monday, December 24, 2012 - 15:30
in Earth & Climate
TARAPOTO, Peru--For tropical ecologist Gregory Asner, flying over the Peruvian Amazon from the town of Tarapoto is like traveling back in time. Modern houses, rice paddies and oil palm plantations give way to steep, forested mountains and then to green, unbroken forest that curves toward the horizon. [More]