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'It's like trying to grow a tree in an oven': Gold mining is sucking the Amazon rainforest dryGold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.
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El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforestCerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds spiritual significance for Indigenous people.
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How we found the northern green anaconda, a new species of the heaviest snake on EarthThe northern green anaconda has been identified as a new species after genetic analysis showed it split from its southern counterpart 10 million years ago.
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Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis and die if climate crisis continues, scientists warnData collected by the International Space Station has revealed a small fraction of leaves in the world's tropical rainforests are already exceeding peak temperatures, and scientists warn that this could increase.
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Watch sloth fight off ocelot in incredibly rare footage from deep in the Amazon rainforestThe footage from a camera trap in Yasuní Biosphere Reserve in eastern Ecuador appears to be the first time a fight between a sloth and an ocelot has been caught on film.
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Catastrophic climate 'doom loops' could start in just 15 years, new study warnsClimate "tipping points," such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, could come within a human lifetime, scientists have said.
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Amazon River 'Breathes' Carbon Dioxide from Rain ForestRiver bacteria can break down plant-based carbon, exhaling it as carbon dioxide.
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Lasers reveal 'lost' pre-Hispanic civilization deep in the AmazonSettlements from a "lost" Amazonian civilization were found.
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Amazon nears 'tipping point' where rainforest could transform into savanna
The Amazon is losing "resilience," a study shows.
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