Patrícia Medici is a world-leading expert in Brazil's lowland tapirs, large herbivores whose seed dispersal function is fundamental to rainforest ecosystems, including the Amazon. "Tapirs move very ...
He points out that the Amazon rainforest is one of the world’s most important natural ecosystems, but is under constant threat. The 61-year-old says: “It contains half of the planet’s ...
Jan. 6, 2025 — 2024 was another year of record-breaking temperatures, driving the global water cycle to new climate extremes and contributing to ferocious floods and crippling droughts, a new ...
Spherical panorama. The location of this photo is the Amazon rainforest, flooded forest area called land inundated by floods and drought in the Amazon River. 19 Dec 2013 (original upload date). Author ...