Amazon rain forest

Brazil's supreme court has upheld major changes to laws protecting the Amazon rainforest, delivering a blow to environmentalists. The revision of the 2012 law includes an amnesty programme that scraps penalties for landowners who have cut trees down illegally in the past. Environmentalists say it will ...

"The recovery observed at the Amazon was mostly due to the recolonization of previously deforested areas and forest fragments by old-growth specialist bats. This recolonization is likely attributable to an increased diversity and abundance of food resources in areas now occupied by secondary forest, ...

Ecuador's Kichwa people live from the biodiversity of the Amazon region. But they're also among the country's poorest inhabitants. They often have trouble selling the edible nuts, ferns, roots and other rare culinary treats harvested from their rainforest gardens — known as "chakras" — at local markets.

From the start, the demonstration of the hydrological cycle of the Amazon raised the question of how much deforestation would be required to cause the cycle to degrade to the point of being unable to support rain forest ecosystems. High levels of evaporation and transpiration that forests produce ...

And now Amazon's staffers have a rainforest – or at least something like one – right in the middle of downtown Seattle. On a typically overcast Monday, in a particularly Amazonian version of a ribbon-cutting ceremony for “the Spheres” – its giant glass-and-metal domes filled with tropical and rare plants ...

I happily and humbly accepted the gift, with an eagerness to acquire all the help I could get for the adventure into the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador. It also served as a reminder and kept me connected to all the students back in the United States who watch what I do and use it as inspiration to follow their ...

For years, they've withstood a multitude of human impact. But according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances, they may be reaching a crisis point. If deforestation goes beyond 20 percent of its original spread, the Amazon Rainforest will have reached the “point of no return”. In the study ...

Thomas Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre have researched “how much deforestation would be required to cause the hydrological cycle to degrade to the point of being unable to support rain forest ecosytems.” "If the climate changes - by deforestation or global warming - there's a risk that more than 50% of the ...

If deforestation goes beyond 20 percent of its original spread, the Amazon Rainforest will have reached the "point of no return". In the study, Thomas Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre set out to concretely establish that tipping point, as well as concretely identify what must take place for it to be reached. Essentially ...