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.

|BySHIR PERETS

Amazon rainforest burns at a record rate, raises int'l concern - pictures

As the pressure mounted on the Brazilian president last week, he blamed NGOs for the fires and told the world not to interfere.

AUGUST 25, 2019ByCASSANDRA GOMES-HOCHBERG
A tract of Amazon jungle is seen after a fire in Boca do Acre, Amazonas state, Brazil August 24, 2019

As record numbers of fires burn in Amazon, Bolsonaro blames NGOs

He also recently fired the head of INPE, Ricardo Galvao, after dismissing data showing an 88% rise in deforestation between June 2018 and June 2019 as “lies.”

AUGUST 23, 2019ByTATIANA FREITAS, DAVID BILLER/BLOOMBERG NEWS/TNS
A man works in a burning tract of Amazon jungle as it is being cleared by loggers and farmers in Iranduba