It contains microbes, including bacteria that help to turn chemicals in the soil into useful nutrients that feed plants and trees.Vast areas of the Amazon have been cut down, mostly to make way for grassland for raising cattle. Scientists are looking for a way to turn grassland back into ...
The Amazon rainforest spreads across nine South American countries but most of it is in Brazil. Brazilian scientists think they might have found a way to reverse(逆转) the damage caused by deforestation and turn farmland back into forest.The secret lies in ancient local knowledge of soil.Amazoni...
TheAmazon Rainforestis the largest remaining block of humid tropical forest, and about two-thirds of it is inBrazil. (The rest lies along that country’s borders to the west and to the north.) Studies in the Amazon reveal that about 5,000 square km (1,931 square miles) are at least...
Tocantins, inland estado (state) of north-central Brazil. Tocantins is bounded by the states of Maranhão and Piauí to the northeast, Bahia to the east, Goiás to the south, Mato Grosso to the west, and Pará to the northwest. Tocantins was created fr
Brazil Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Indonesia Peru Colombia Other countries that have large areas of rainforest include Bolivia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ecuador, Gabon, Guyana, India, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Congo, Suriname, and Venezuela. ...
For example, the authorized budget for Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment has been on a mostly downward trend since 2013, when it reached a decade-long peak of nearly seven billion Brazilian reals. How big is the Brazilian deforestation issue? In 2023, Brazil registered by far the ...
Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park is one of the 34 biodiverse hotspots in the world. It is the ecological highland with the richest forest resources in Hainan, and also the only habitat for Hainan black-crested gibbons in the world. Data records show that the national park is home to...
These results demonstrated that Amazonas and Solimões rivers hold a cultured diversity of cyanobacteria similar to those already recorded from other aquatic environments around the world or in Brazil (Genuário et al., 2017b). In addition, one novel cyanobacterial strain isolated from Solimões ...
news that there are fewer fires in the Amazon right now, but this is a short term pause from the larger problem."That problem centers on deforestation through systematically chopping down trees, which are either logged or burned, mostly to convert the land for raising cattle and growing crops...
But for those who live in remote areas of northwest Brazil, the highway could serve as a lifeline to modern civilization, experts argue. The current road is 560 miles long and mostly dirt. It connects the Amazon-adjacent states of Amazonas and Roraima to ...