Tag: Rainforest

  • Nation & World

    Amazon blazes could speed climate change

    Harvard biologist and longtime Amazon rainforest researcher Brian Farrell discusses how the forest fires raging in Brazil are threatening the planet’s climate, and how to stop them.

    7 minutes
    Fire in the Amazon
  • Nation & World

    One goal, many players

    GoAmazon2014 is part of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), the largest umbrella for research in the Amazon, which explores everything from social issues to scientific inquiries.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Atop the Amazon rainforest

    Harvard air chemistry expert Scot Martin is working with the Department of Energy, as well as several international partners, to track how pollution above the pristine Amazon rainforest is changing the climate.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Health care savings, naturally

    Though questions persist about whether natural remedies are as effective as their pharmacological cousins, one Harvard researcher is trying to understand the economic benefits people receive by relying on such traditional cures.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Trees tell of shifting world

    Trees from the Harvard Forest to the Amazon rainforest are experiencing changing climactic conditions, with rising temperatures potentially making tropical trees a significant source of carbon dioxide.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Ecosystems under siege

    Environmental panel discusses the problems facing the Earth, and what it would take to reverse the damaging trends.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Settle down,’ warns E.O. Wilson

    Esteemed biologist Edward O. Wilson called for renewed efforts to understand and conserve the planet’s biodiversity, in the first of three Prather Lectures being presented this week.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Ashton: A legacy written in trunk, limb, and leaf

    They were in a bind, no doubt about it.

    10 minutes