Protecting these places not only supports jaguars and freshwater animals included in the study, but also help safeguard many ...

Most trees in the Amazon (90%), the Atlantic Forest (90%), or the Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna-like biome (60%), depend on ...

Forests rely on animals to spread seeds and store carbon. Their decline threatens regeneration and climate goals.

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The rainforest holds animals that glow, mimic wood, run on water, or carry ...

Using Sora, a text-to-video model developed by OpenAI, a TikTok creator produced a series of videos depicting giant anacondas ...

Animals ingest mercury through their diet — plants, insects, or other animals. Those higher up the food chain generally have higher levels as they accumulate the mercury contained in their prey.

Beyond the Amazon’s irreplaceable biodiversity, beyond its colossal carbon stores, there are wind and ocean currents that connect the forest to regions across the globe (SN: 3/11/23, p. 9).

An aerial view of the Brazilian Amazon shows the lush forest and its edges, which are expected to become more savanna-like with projected climate changes. (Wesley Araujo) Caught on camera For the ...

Animal soundscapes reveal key markers of Amazon forest degradation from fire and logging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (18). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2102878119 ...

Meanwhile, Amazon destruction continues at a furious pace. Government data show that about three soccer fields’ worth of virgin forest was cleared every minute in 2022.

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