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Drought threatens Amazon carbon sinks
According to a new study conducted on the world's largest tropical forest, Amazon is particularly sensitive to drought.
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The Amazon forest is greener when the sun is drought!
This phenomenon almost goes against the natural law. Drought makes the Amazon rainforest, located between 9 South American countries getting more and more green - accord…
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Deplete Amazon
The Amazon Basin in South America is facing the most severe drought in history. Great majestic rivers are now only languid creeks. The streams and lakes are drying up. F…
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Amazon forests are at risk of turning into desert
Brazilian researchers have warned that a warmer global climate could kill the world's largest tropical forest, turning the Amazon into a desert from now until the end of…
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Tropical forests are protected
A large area of tropical forests in Brazil is about to be given protection status. This is the forest area in the Northern Para state, about 16.4 million hectares, lar…
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The Amazon River has changed the flow
The Amazon River, the largest river in the world, once flowed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, opposite to the current flow. A recent study has found in sed…
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Ecological diversity in amber in the Amazon region
The group of researchers led by Pierre-Olivier Antoine of Toulouse University (France) has discovered new invertebrate species preserved in amber from 12 to 15 million y…
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The Amazon forest is in danger of turning into a desert
The Amazon rainforest could become desert, and this could speed up the global warming process with
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Amazing drawing set on the tree in the Amazon forest
Artist Echaroux projected a Surui face image onto the tree in the hope of preventing deforestation.
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The pristine beauty of 10 places people have not yet touched
10 places that people can not touch, so there is a pristine beauty, just look at it somewhere that is not our Earth.
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Spot the enchanting Earth from space satellites
The images recorded by Envisat satellite give us a new perspective on this planet.
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Beautiful Amazon natural forest comes to awe
The Amazon rainforest area covers about 7 million km2 with forest area accounting for about 5.5 million km2.
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Butterfly drinking turtle tears
Brightly colored butterflies surround turtles in the Amazon, Peru forest, to drink their tears.
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Photo scary about the environment
Ice melts in the middle of winter, children jump in the middle of a plastic bottle of water, the lake is shallow because of lack of water. Environment in many places is…
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Wild colors
Wild nature still makes us overwhelmed by the vivid colorful animals. From the notorious ferocious piranha to the blue-green butterfly and agra