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Because of clear-cutting, the area of undisturbed rainforests is decreasing. At the edges of deforested areas, temperatures rise, and there is more light. Trees are able to adapt to changes in their living conditions and environment, but how does env

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Eating wild animals, known collectively as bushmeat or wildmeat, is associated with reduced anaemia cases among children living in the Amazon rainforest, a new study reveals.In this, the largest study yet conducted anywhere examining the relationship

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Amazon forests are increasingly becoming fragmented by deforestation and fire. A new study published in Nature Communications and led by researchers in the University of Helsinki, in cooperation with scientists across the globe, uses a novel approach to quantify the impacts of fragmentation on plant phenology.

Dams drove an Asian dolphin extinct. They could do the same in the Amazon The tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis), a river dolphin endemic to the Amazon, has been declared endangered on the IUCN Red List, meaning all the world’s freshwater dolphins are now at threat of extinction. The species faces the same threats as another Amazonian cetacean, the pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), ranging from hydropower dams, to bycatch, to mercury poisoning. Researchers warn that if these threats intensify,...