Amazon rainforest

Scientists in Brazil starve trees of water to test Amazon's limits

Like hospital patients, the vital signs of 61 of the trees are measured, including sap and carbon dioxide flow, respiration and temperature, with solar-powered equipment.

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The Amazon rainforest.
Indigenous women and children sit in a waiting room during a mission by researchers from the Brazilian public health institute Fiocruz to investigate health disorders among Munduruku Indigenous people that are potentially linked to mercury contamination caused by illegal gold mining, in Sai Cinza vi

Scientists try to prove link between Amazon gold mining and disabilities in babies

While scientists have warned of the risks that mercury could pose to Indigenous children in the Amazon, none have established a causal link to disabilities in their communities.

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A worker brushes a decorated wall at Limon archaeological complex, where two chambers used for political ceremonies of the Mochica culture, of more than 1,500 years old, were recently discovered according to archaeologist Walter Alva, in Lambayeque, Peru, January 10, 2018.

Archaeologists in Peru unveil 3,500-year-old city that linked coast and Andes

Archaeologists unveil Peñico, a city that thrived 3,500 years ago, linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Amazon.

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A new species of semi-aquatic mouse.

Over two dozen new species discovered in Peruvian forest

Scientists discovered over two dozen new species in Peru's Amazon rainforest, including a semi-aquatic mouse and three other previously unknown mammals, during a 2022 expedition.

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Intensifying windthrow on the horizon as climate change fuels storms

Climate change exacerbates tropical storms. As a result of the more extreme winds associated with these events, more trees are uprooted. 

JANUARY 18, 2023BySAM HALPERN
An aerial view shows trees as the sun rises at the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil October 26, 2022.

Amazonian dark earth made intentionally by indigenous peoples - research

Dark earth gets its name from its dark which is caused by the fact that high concentrations of charcoal exist in the soil.

JANUARY 11, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A homemade version of terra preta, Amazonian dark earth, which is a fertile type of soil found in the Amazon River Basin (illustrative).

'Magical' pink dolphins rescued in Bolivia in push to boost species

Many pink dolphins lose access to the river because of their reproductive instincts.

OCTOBER 18, 2022ByREUTERS
A pink dolphin is seen swimming while being trained at the Oasis Sea World marine park in Chantaburi, nearly 290 km (190 miles) southeast of Bangkok on December 20, 2003. Pink dolphins, also known as Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, are among the world's most endangered species.

Brazilian rabbi goes viral for paying Jewish tribute to journalist and expert killed in the Amazon

In a Jewish mourning service last Friday, Rabbi Uri Lam, who leads Sao Paulo’s Beth-El temple, mentioned British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Bruno Pereira.

JUNE 23, 2022ByMARCUS M. GILBAN / JTA
Rabbi Uri Lam leads a Jewish mourning ceremony including the names of the two men killed while working on reports about threats to indigenous communities.

Brazilian police denies missing journalist, indigenist were found dead in Amazons

Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing more than a week ago in the Amazons.

JUNE 13, 2022ByREUTERS
Police officers and rescue team members sit on a boat during the search operation for British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who went missing while reporting in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon rainforest, near the border with Peru, in Atalaia do Norte.

Climate-warming carbon located in only 3.3% of Earth's lands - study

If ecosystems were to be damaged, the carbon would be emitted into the atmosphere would then not be restored by the next couple of decades.  

NOVEMBER 26, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
BIRDS FLY near factory emissions n Tangshan, China, in 2016. Waskow emphasizes the importance of using religion to fight climate change

Birds' bodies in Amazon Rainforest change due to climate change - study

The study included data on more than 15,000 individual birds over a large range of the rainforest that was analyzed, weighed, captured, and later released bank into the wild.

NOVEMBER 14, 2021ByGADI ZAIG
Tristram's starling in Masada. Why not take a detective course at the Nili and David Jerusalem Bird Observatory and find such pretty birds yourself?

Over 10,000 species risk extinction in Amazon, says landmark report

According to the report, the soil and vegetation of the Amazon hold about 200 billion tonnes of carbon, more than five times the whole world's annual CO2 emissions.

JULY 14, 2021ByREUTERS
A truck loaded with logs cut from an area of the Amazon rainforest is seen in Boca do Acre, Amazonas state, Brazil August 24, 2019

Brazil airlifts emergency oxygen into pandemic-struck Amazon state

Desperate relatives, protesting outside hospitals in the state capital of Manaus, said patients had been taken off ventilators as oxygen ran out.

JANUARY 16, 2021ByREUTERS
Kambeba indigenous nurse technician Neurilene Cruz, 36, conducts tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on indigenous Tome Cruz, 36, on the banks of the Negro river at the village of Tres Unidos, Amazon state, Brazil, May 21, 2020

Crowdsourcing NGO purchases 700 acres in Brazil, Kenya for conservation

This year, for the first time, TiME will acquire two plots of land in a single year: 500 acres in Brazil's Atlantic forest and 200 acres in the Dakatcha woodland in Kenya.

JANUARY 9, 2021ByIDAN ZONSHINE
Northern brown howler monkey