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Amazon heat drives Tibet temperatures: Climate tipping elements connected
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
While the Amazon rainforest and the Tibetan Plateau sit on different sides of the globe, scientists have now discovered that changes in the South American ecosystem can trigger changes in the vicinity of the Himalayas.
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Researchers discover elephant extinction could have major impact on atmosp
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers report that elephants play a key role in creating forests which store more atmospheric carbon and maintaining the biodiversity of forests in Africa. If the already critically endangered elephants become extinct, rainforest of central and west Africa, the second largest rainforest
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MANA Launches Daintree, a Rainforest-inspired Villa Project
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 17 (ANI/NewsVoir): MANA, a Bengaluru-based real estate company known for creating that rare balance between comfort, convenience and the natural environment, announced the launch of Daintree, a rainforest-inspired 3 & 4 BHK villa project in Sarjapur
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Mirror image molecules reveal drought stress in forests
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
As with pinene, many monoterpenes occur in two mirror-image forms: (+) alpha-pinene and (-) alpha-pinene. Plants can release both forms of these volatile molecules directly after biosynthesis or from storage pools in leaves. Because the two chiral or enantiomeric forms have identical physica
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Lula da Silva sworn in for third term as Brazil's president
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Silva also promised to fight to improve life for poor Brazilians, work towards racial and gender equality, and achieve zero deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
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Bolsonaro to face Lula in run off to Brazil President poll
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Sao Paulo [Brazil], October 3 (ANI): Brazil's incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro will face former President Luiz Inacio 'Lula' da Silva in the deciding second round of Brazil's presidential election later this month.
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Research: In a warmer rainforest, trees get overheated
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Gothenburg [Sweden], September 28 (ANI): The potential of rainforests to store carbon may diminish as a result of climate change. This is because photosynthesis rates in rainforest species' leaves decrease at higher temperatures, and the trees' natural cooling systems fail during droughts. I
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Research: Tropical insects are extremely sensitive to changing climates
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): Insects that are adapted to perennially wet environments, like tropical rainforests, don't tend to do well when their surroundings dry out. New research indicates they may be equally averse to heavy rainfall. The results of an extensive five-year study co
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Research: Lack of phosphorus is limiting Amazon's growth
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 11 (ANI): Growth of the Amazon rainforest in our increasingly carbon-rich atmosphere could be limited by a lack of phosphorus in the soil, new research shows.
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Amazon more vulnerable to scanty rains than previously believed
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 7 (ANI): In order to understand the intricate operations of one of Earth's most significant and biodiverse carbon sinks, researchers have now employed network analysis.
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Scanty rain: Amazon even more vulnerable than previously thought
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 3 (ANI): Researchers have now used network analysis to understand the complex workings of one of Earth's most valuable and biodiverse carbon sinks.
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Amazon rainforest is losing resilience, reveals new research
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Telegrafenberg (Potsdam) [Germany], March 8 (ANI): A data analysis from high-resolution satellite images have suggested that the Amazon rainforest is likely losing resilience due to stress from a combination of logging and burning.
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