The Amazon | Magazine Articles | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
WEBThe Amazon. Journey into the world’s largest tropical forest—and uncover one of the biggest conservation initiatives the world has ever seen. © WWF-US/Ricardo Lisboa. Issue: Summer 2014. Author: Jill Langlois. Photographer: Ricardo Lisboa.
Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air - Smithsonian Magazine
WEBMay 25, 2022 · The Amazon is one of the planet’s last great wildernesses, but legends have circulated for centuries that lost cities existed deep within the forests.
The Amazon Region Protected Areas program is the single largest ...
WEBSince 2000, ARPA has helped a scattered group of protected areas grow into a strategic gallery of Amazon jewels covering more than 200,000 square miles. Toggle between the dates below to see how Brazil’s protected area has grown in the past 12 years.
In a Remote Amazon Region, Study Shows ... - Smithsonian Magazine
WEBJun 23, 2021 · A new study, published in the journal Proceeding of the National Academy of Science and led by a Smithsonian researcher, proves that over millennia, a region of rainforest in the western Amazon...
Protecting millions of acres in the Amazon | Magazine Articles
WEBProtecting millions of acres in the Amazon. The Amazon is home to around 400 amphibian species, including the endemic mission golden-eyed tree frog. The Amazon helps stabilize the global climate and is home to more than 40 million people and around 10% of the world’s known species.
"We are killing this ecosystem": the scientists tracking the Amazon…
WEBAug 24, 2023 · In the southeastern Amazon, the forest has become a source of CO 2. The finding gained headlines around the world and surprised many scientists, who expected the Amazon to be a much stronger...
The Lost Tribes of the Amazon - Smithsonian Magazine
WEBThe Lost Tribes of the Amazon. Often described as “uncontacted,” isolated groups living deep in the South American forest resist the ways of the modern world—at least for now
Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change - National …
WEBAug 20, 2024 · Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change. Join Gisele Bundchen when she meets with one of Brazil’s top climate scientists to discuss the complexity of the Amazon rainforest and its connection to Earth’s atmosphere.
The Pulse | Into the Amazon - National Geographic
WEB1 day ago · In a forest flooded by Brazil’s Rio Negro, jungle guide Roberto Abdias Gomes da Silva indicates the high-water line on a massive tree, a species whose trunk acts like a water tank, storing ...
Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system | Nature
WEBFeb 14, 2024 · Here we analyse existing evidence for five major drivers of water stress on Amazonian forests, as well as potential critical thresholds of those drivers that, if crossed, could trigger local,...