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Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon are under constant pressure, and deforestation of these areas has accelerated in recent years. Some of them, such as Apyterewa Indigenous Territory in Pará state, are particularly affected, endangering Brazil's ability to meet the targets to which it is committed internationally in terms of combating deforestation and mitigating the impact of climate change.

Since the first detection in 2015 of ripples caused by the collision of blackholes in spacetime, astronomers have used powerful computers to analyse information from the signals, including mass, spin, polarisation and inclination of orbit of the bodies involved in each event. Click to read more...

A project originally aimed to fuel agribusiness in one of the most heavily deforested parts of the Brazilian Amazon is now being touted by the government as a “green” and “sustainable” initiative that will help protect the forest and may be replicated in other parts of the biome. The switch in the narrative around Amacro, […]

Carnegie Mellon University June 8 announced that Sivaraman Balakrishnan was among five of its faculty members to receive an Amazon Research Award.

Suhas Diggavi and Yizhou Sun will receive $80,000 grants to help fund their research proposals.

News Author: Wiida Fourie-Basson Published: 19/05/2021 Mr David Baker Effendi, an MSc-student in Computer Sciences at Stellenbosch University, has received an Amazon Research Award based on his innovative research in program analysis with applications in bug-finding and cybersecurity. The Amazon Research Awards  include cash and Amazon Web Services (AWS) promotional credits for making use of Amazons cloud computing resources. David says the award will help to cover his tuition fees and living ...

Trees are the Earth’s lungs – it’s well understood they drawdown and lock up vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But emerging research is showing trees can also emit methane, and it’s currently unknown just how much. This could be a major problem, given methane is a greenhouse gas about 45 times more potent than carbon dioxide at warming our planet. However, in a world-first discovery published in Nature Communications, we found unique methane-eating communities of bac...

Intimidation of Brazil’s enviro scientists, academics, officials on upswing Increasingly, Brazilian environmental researchers, academics and officials appear to be coming under fire for their scientific work or views, sometimes from the Jair Bolsonaro government, but also from anonymous Bolsonaro supporters. Researchers and academics have come under attack for their scientific work on agrochemicals, deforestation and other topics, as well as for their socio-environmental views. Attacks have t...

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