Tag: Amazonia - Page 6
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Pre-Columbian Farming Helped Increase Amazon Biodiversity
New research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that pre-Columbian agricultural activity in the Amazon, in what is now French Guiana, inadvertently helped increased biodiversity. Though it's
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Amazon Rural to Urban Migration Not Helping Preserve Forests - Commercial Interests Swoop In
Reinforcing what previous studies have show, new research in the journal Conservation Letters reveals that as people start leaving the Amazon forest for urban centers, rather than as supposed, exploitation of the
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Cameron and Gore Discuss the Amazon, Avatar 2
This weekend, Avatar director James Cameron spoke at an assembly gathered in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon to speak on topics ranging from sustainability and the power of cinema, to the prospects that there will be a sequel to his blockbuster,
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We're Not Out of the Woods Yet... Did Policy or Recession Reduce Brazil's Deforestation Rates?
Just as its announced that Brazil and the United States will work together to slow Amazon deforestation, Cool Green Science asks an important question: Has it been policy or recession driving down deforestation
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Uncontacted Amazon Tribes Get Internet Connection
For the first time, indigenous Amazonian tribesmen, long isolated by their location deep within the rainforest, will have access to the internet and telephone. The system, which includes a VSAT satellite dish, was installed by the
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Monogamous Frogs Stay Together 'Til One Croaks
While monogamy in the animal world is not unheard of, frogs have long been considered among the most promiscuous creatures. But, as revealed in a recent study, at least one species of frog mates with the same partner for
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Oil and Gas Exploration Threatens Peruvian Amazon
In the 1960s and 70s, there was an oil boom in Peru. Due to restrictions on where developers could explore, the hunt for fossil
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Amazon River Water Being Stolen and Bottled Abroad
A recently published report is exposing some shocking exploitation of the Amazon's natural resources--and this times it's
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Amazon Rainforest Near Tipping Point - IPCC Projections of Decline Validated
photo: Alexander Torrenegra via flickr. Amazongate was a non-story from the outset, a question of sloppy citations rather than sloppy science. In fact a new piece in Tierraamérica which Mongabay is highlighting validates the original IPCC projection
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Brazil Confirms Huge and Controversial Hydroelectric Dam in the Amazon
The environmental Ministry of Brazil has announced a controversial project to build a huge hydroelectric dam in the middle of the Amazon forest has been granted an environmental license.
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'Amazongate' is More Sloppy Writing Than Sloppy Science
Another piece of the 2007 IPCC report is coming under scrutiny. In question is a passage saying that 40% of the Amazon rainforest could be wiped out
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Rainforests Destroyed as Fast as a Field of Matches (VIDEO)
While the rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest may be declining, it and other rainforests around the world continue to be cleared at an alarming rate. Figures that are quite alarming, like the fact that 17 percent of the
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Ecuador's Plan to Protect the Amazon Gets Deadline, Minister Resigns
Fander Falconí, Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador, has resigned due to differences with president Rafael Correa in the issue of the country's plan to protect the Yasuni
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School for Shamans to Save Culture from Extinction
While environmental groups and governmental policies are aiming at reducing deforestation and development in the Amazon rainforest to help preserve the world's most diverse terrestrial ecosystem, traditional indigenous cultures in
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Species Must Run From Global Warming to Survive
As global temperatures rise, species across the world will have to, quite literally, run to stay alive. According to the latest research, 28.8% of the biomes of the earth will need to migrate at a rate greater than 1
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Strange Geoglyphs Discovered Beneath Clearcut Amazon
With the aid of satellite imagery from Google Earth, soon archeologists in Brazil will be finding more and more large geometric designs
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Deforestation Increased as World Prepared for COP15
During COP15 earlier this month, Brazil stood out among developing nations for its bold commitments to curbing carbon emissions and reducing deforestation of the Amazon rainforest--and was perhaps the most vocal in its
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World's Tallest Waterfall Gets New Name
Hidden deep within the Venezuelan jungle stands the tallest waterfall in the world. It's so tall, rising to a height of 3,212 ft, that the roaring torrent of falling water is reduced to a mere mist before meeting the rocks below. Due to its remote
