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Highway infrastructure initiates the deforestation process, but it is almost always accompanied by some sort of agricultural activity. Depending upon circumstances, deforestation can proceed rapidly or slowly, lead to large or small forest clearings, and create forest remnants of different sizes and configurations. Agricultural production models vary from huge ranches and plantations spanning tens of […]

The economies of nations are traditionally evaluated by their gross domestic product (GDP), a metric that measures the total economic output of a nation. The GDP of the Pan Amazon was approximately $US 270 billion in 2017, a modest number in a global economy valued at $US 80 trillion in the same year. By way […]

A novel idea to leave the country’s vast oil reserves in the ground fizzled for lack of international support. Now, struggling under painful debt, the government wants to expand drilling in the rainforest.

Research with Indigenous communities in Ecuador reveals that up to 32 species of harlequin frog aren't actually extinct.