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Oct 10, 2021
After 50 years, botanists finally identified this Amazonian plant
The specimen had been sitting at the Field Museum since the early 1970s.
Oct 07, 2021
This wild grassland in the Amazon isn’t as untouched as it seems
A dry region became a wetland largely through human intervention.
Jun 09, 2021
Indigenous languages hold the keys to medicinal forest libraries
When languages die, so do entire generations of botanical knowledge.
Apr 29, 2021
This female praying mantis has a persuasive body part it uses to find mates
Is that a pheromone gland or are you just happy to see me?
Oct 12, 2020
A pandemic-created ‘gold rush’ in the Amazon is destroying Indigenous lands
COVID-19 chaos boosted gold prices, which intensified mining on Amazon’s Indigenous lands.
Jan 10, 2020
The Amazon stores tons of carbon. Climate change-fueled wildfires could ruin that.
Deforestation makes drought-stressed forests even more vulnerable.
Aug 28, 2019
Fires in the Amazon have given us a lot to worry about, but the Earth’s oxygen supply isn’t one of them
Here's where our O2 really comes from.
Jun 15, 2017
Nov 21, 2015
Over Half Of All Amazonian Tree Species Are In Danger
Tropical tree species make up 90 percent of all trees on Earth, so we might want to do something