rainforests
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Look at This Stretch of Amazon Rainforest Cleared in a Year
The Amazon rainforest in Mato Grosso Brazil is shrinking. Brazil’s space research agency, INPE, reported that the first quarter of 2022 set a new deforestation record for the rainforest — 941 square kilometers were cleared from Janaury to the end of March. This is the largest area of deforestation that the agency recorded in a…
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How Elephants May Help Africa’s Rainforests Fight Climate Change
Although we’re wiping them out with little consideration of it, big herbivores matter. Hippo poop helps Africa’s largest lake flourish, bison wallowing can enhance insect diversity in the prairie and Africa’s imperilled forest elephants might just have a role to play in the fight against climate change.
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Industrial Waste From Ants Emits Potent Greenhouse Gas
New research shows that garbage piles produced by leaf-cutter ants emit significant amounts of nitrous oxide—a potent greenhouse gas.