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The Amazônia Revelada project aims to identify sites in the Amazon by combining state-of-the-art technology with the ...
Imagine walking through the dense, humming heart of the Amazon rainforest. The air is thick, the ground alive with insects, ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers about 2,000 years ago. Lost cities in Amazon that lasted 1,000 years are ...
The Amazon rainforest was alive with sound. It was 3 a.m. , and Ari Grele’s eyes were bloodshot from hours of staring at multiple screens, working furiously to ensure his team’s data flowed seamlessly ...
Some areas of the Amazon rainforest are more resilient to drought than others, new research shows. But if not managed carefully, we could 'threaten the integrity of the whole system,' researchers say.
For decades, satellite images have clearly captured how rampant deforestation is destroying the Amazon rainforest. ... The force is strong with space lasers helping researchers map the Amazon in 3D.
When this tipping point will occur is unclear, but 2019 work found that 17 per cent of the Amazon basin’s rainforest had been lost, and an estimate from 2018 put the future threshold at about 20 ...
A new report from Monitoring of the Amazon Project (MAAP) compiles some of the most up-to-date and extensive analysis of mining in the Amazon. The map show 58 instances of illegal mining in ...
Opinion: The global gold rush puts the Amazon rainforest at greater risk. May 9, 2023 5:01 AM ET. By . ... His latest book is Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years.
The eight countries that comprise the Amazon River basin agreed on several initiatives to curtail deforestation in the world’s largest and most important rainforest. By Manuela Andreoni and Max ...
To Save the Amazon Rainforest, Scientists Look for Clues in Its Past Published Feb 02, 2024 at 12:04 PM EST Updated Feb 02, 2024 at 2:34 PM EST ...