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See All Key Ideas Hidden within the Amazon Rainforest are rare, carbon-rich ecosystems known as peatlands, a type of swamp ...

Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest echo a development vision ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build ...

New research published in the academic journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that artisan gold mining in the southern Peruvian Amazon has caused more destruction to carbon-rich peatlands ...

Findings, published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Remote Sensing, report a 93% success rate when training the model via a dataset of images of Amazon rainforest with, and without ...

In 2023 there were 98,639 wildfires in the Amazon alone. The Amazon rainforest, too, accounts for a significant portion (51.94%) of wildfires in the Brazilian biomes. In recent years, this area ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Artisan gold mining in the southern Peruvian Amazon has caused more destruction to carbon-rich peatlands in the past two years than in the previous three decades ...

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In 1971, a 17-year-old girl, Juliane Koepcke, was flying in a plane to meet her father, who worked as a zoologist in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. Lightning struck the plane, and it crashed into ...