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Amazon rainforest is losing resilience, suggests analysis of new satellite
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 8 (ANI): Data analysis from high-resolution satellite images suggests that the Amazon rainforest is likely losing resilience. This is due to stress from a combination of logging and burning. The influence of human-caused climate change is not clearly determinable so fa
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Words needed to think about numbers? Study suggests so!
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Massachusetts [US], February 10 (ANI): While one does need numbers to function every day, do we need words to think about numbers? A new study from MIT and the University of California at Berkeley discovered a strange relationship between numbers and words.
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Colombian defence minister blames former FARC members for Amazon forest fi
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], February 6 (ANI/Sputnik): Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano claimed that former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) set fire to the country's Amazon rainforests to clear areas for extensive stockbreeding and coca production.
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Study estimates that close to 9,200 tree species of Earth, yet to be disco
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Michigan [US], February 4 (ANI): A new study involving more than 100 scientists from across the globe and the largest forest database yet has assembled shocking estimates of there being 73,000 tree species on the Earth, including about 9,200 species yet to be discovered.
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UK to call for end to global deforestation at COP 26: Reports
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], October 15 (ANI/Sputnik): The UK will urge world leaders at the upcoming 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to pledge their commitment to stopping and reversing deforestation, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, sources told the Guardian newspaper.
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Shrinking forest cover brings endangered species lion tailed macaques on r
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Shivamogga (Karnataka) [India], September 1 (ANI): In view of the shrinking forest cover and absence of native trees, lion-tailed macaques (LTM), an endangered species residing in rainforests of Western Ghats, come up to the hairpin curve of Agumbe ghat in Shivamogga to get food thrown by tr
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Dia Mirza, Shruti Haasan celebrate World Elephant Day 2021
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 12 (ANI): On the occasion of World Elephant Day on Thursday, actors Dia Mirza and Shruti Haasan, who are quite vocal about environmental causes, requested everyone to help protect elephants for maintaining the biodiversity of rainforests.
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Researchers invent indicator to monitor world's rainforests
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Delaware [US], August 1 (ANI): Scientists recently developed a new tracking system in order to monitor danger to the world's rainforests, which have been losing the capacity to cycle carbon and water.
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Scientists develop new tracking system for monitoring danger to rainforest
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Delaware [US], July 26 (ANI): During a recent study, scientists developed a new indicator for monitoring danger to the world's rainforests, which have been losing the capacity to cycle carbon and water.
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Brazil's environment minister steps down amid probe into illegal logging i
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Sao Paulo [Brazil], June 24 (ANI): Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles resigned Wednesday, weeks after he was targeted by federal police as part of an investigation into alleged illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest.
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Experience Australia with the new 8D audio escapes from Tourism Australia
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] October 7 (ANI/NewsVoir): In a first for any tourism organization, Tourism Australia has launched a new series of immersive videos that harness the innovative 8D audio technology and take viewers on a sensory journey of Australia's unique sights, sounds, and t
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Deforestation, Climate change could decimate Madagascar's rainforest habit
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 5 (ANI): A study has found that left unchecked, the combined effects of deforestation and human-induced climate change could eliminate Madagascar's entire eastern rainforest habitat by 2070, impacting thousands of plants, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians that are
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