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Collecting live snakes in remote Amazon regions for study is no easy task – here’s how we do it
Paulo Sérgio Bernarde, Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC) Brazil records an average of 29,000 snakebites a year, leading…
A dam built in the Amazon created thousands of ‘forest islands’ but they are too small to sustain most species
The Balbina Dam (bottom right) created thousands of small islands. Google Earth, CC BY-SA Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Universidade…
Ever heard of ocean forests? They’re larger than the Amazon and more productive than we thought
Shutterstock Albert Pessarrodona Silvestre, The University of Western Australia; Karen Filbee-Dexter, The University of Western Australia, and Thomas…
How technology allows us to reveal secrets of Amazonian biodiversity
Oliver Metcalf, Manchester Metropolitan University and Liana Chesini Rossi, University of São Paulo State Tropical forest covers 12%…
The Amazon Rainforest Now Releases More CO2 Than It Absorbs
Touted as the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the world, the Amazon rainforest spans 5.5 million square…