News articles tagged with 'Amazon'
Satellites show effect of 2010 drought on Amazon forests
— 30 Mar 2011 16:16 | EnvironmentA new study has revealed widespread reductions in the greenness of Amazon forests caused by the last year's record-breaking drought…
Brazilian beef - greater impact on the environment than we realise
— 4 Mar 2011 15:03 | EnvironmentIncreased export of Brazilian beef indirectly leads to deforestation in the Amazon. New research from Chalmers and SIK that was recently published in Environmental Science and Technology…
Why are vines overtaking the American tropics?
— 14 Feb 2011 15:12 | BiologySleeping Beauty's kingdom was overgrown by vines when she fell into a deep sleep. Researchers at the Smithsonian in Panama and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee received more…
2 severe Amazon droughts in 5 years alarms scientists
— 4 Feb 2011 16:22 | EnvironmentNew research shows that the 2010 Amazon drought may have been even more devastating to the region's rainforests than the unusual 2005 drought, which was previously billed as a one-in-100…
The Amazon rainforest - a cloud factory
— 20 Sep 2010 11:59 | EnvironmentScientists demonstrate that atmospheric aerosols above the Amazon rainforest are mainly produced by biological sources and are able to draw conclusions about the mechanisms of this…
'Archeologists of the air' isolate pristine aerosol particles in the Amazon
— 17 Sep 2010 10:00 | EnvironmentEnvironmental engineers who might better be called 'archeologists of the air' have, for the first time, isolated aerosol particles in near pristine pre-industrial conditions…
Aerosols control rainfall in the rainforest
— 17 Sep 2010 09:08 | EnvironmentA team of environmental engineers, who might better be called 'archeologists of the air,' have, for the first time, isolated aerosol particles in near pristine pre-industrial conditions…
Pristine rainforests are 'biogeochemical reactors'
— 17 Sep 2010 09:05 | EnvironmentA multinational team that includes a North Carolina State University researcher has found another piece of the atmospheric puzzle surrounding the effects of aerosol particles on climate…
Carbon mapping breakthrough
— 7 Sep 2010 11:24 | EnvironmentBy integrating satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys, scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues…
A river flipped: Humans trump nature on Texas river
— 17 Aug 2010 10:27 | EnvironmentA new study by geochemists at Rice University finds that damming and other human activity has completely obscured the natural carbon dioxide cycle in Texas' longest river, the Brazos…