Good News Notes: “The Brazil nut tree makes, well, tasty nuts. But its real superpower is channeling an extraordinary amount of water from the soil to the sky, making the rainforest rain.” “Our current climate crisis is a result of humans putting too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Luckily, trees (and other natural systems)…
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New monkey discovered on “island” amid deforestation in Brazil
Good News Notes: “DNA analysis has revealed a “new” species of monkey that only survives today because its habitat is difficult to access and therefore hasn’t been converted for large-scale agriculture, reports New Scientist. Writing in Primate Conservation, a team of scientists analyzed the traits of a group of titi monkeys rediscovered in 2011 in the…
Brazil environment agency launches operation to combat Amazon deforestation
https://news.yahoo.com/brazil-environment-agency-launches-operation-095845708.html
Couple Spend 20 Years Replanting A Destroyed 4 Million Tree Rainforest
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/couple-spend-20-years-replanting-a-destroyed-4-million-tree-rainforest/
Tiny Brazilian frogs glow in the dark — under a UV lamp
https://www.upi.com/amp/Science_News/2019/03/29/Tiny-Brazilian-frogs-glow-in-the-dark-under-a-UV-lamp/4391553863773/
Out Of Thin Air
https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/08/israeli-technology-comes-to-the-rescue-in-brazil-to-help-with-water-crisis/