One in ten known species on Earth lives in the Amazon. Its forests contain 90-140 billion metric tons of carbon, the release of even a portion of which would accelerate global warming significantly.
New research from a team of tropical biologists forecasts some of the changes that may occur in the Amazon rainforest as temperatures rise due to climate change.
The Living Amazon Report 2022 is based on the conviction that the fate of humanity is inseparable from the fate of the Amazon. The report also accompanies WWF's global Living Planet Report, with a ...
For the communities living in the Amazon rainforest, the maloca represents a physical manifestation of the cosmos, their ancestral knowledge, and a spatial strategy for living in harmony with nature.