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Big things are happening at the Morpho Institute! Join us for a sneak peek at our new strategic plan, learn about our new initiatives, and meet our new board members! Tuesday, May 21st at 7PM Eastern. Register here: https://morphoinstitute.org/event/morpho-metamorphosis/ 
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The AMAZONFACE ProgramA field experiment of unprecedented scope that will expose an area of mature rainforest in the Amazon to a predicted future CO 2 concentration at a research station near Manaus, Brazil, using technology “ Free-Air CO 2 Enrichment” (FACE). Greater knowledge about the functioning of the world’s largest rainforest in light of climate change and the use of that knowledge to guide regional policies on mitigation and adaptation to climate change are part of the legacy the program seeks to establish.
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The World Bank and the Amazon Environmental Research Insitute (IPAM) developed a model that can tell where and how much deforestation is most likely to occur – the forest-at-risk
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Ahead of a project to spray carbon dioxide into jungle plots, researchers contemplate what its results might signal about the forest’s future.
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“Iquitos is not really an island, of course,” says Catherine Davila, looking out to the Amazon River from the rooftop restaurant she manages.
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An unprecedented time-series study in the basin of the Tapajós River, a major tributary of the Amazon, assesses the level of degradation of small rivers threatened by agribusiness expansion.
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The Explorer Mindset is a series of attributes, shared values, and commitments that define what it means to be a National Geographic Explorer.
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Join our friends and faculty members, Kristie Reddick and Jessica Honaker (aka The Bug Chicks) for this FREE four-part series about arthropod eyes and explore the structure and function of these amazing animals and the visual adaptations that allow them to survive and thrive.
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Check out our community science biodiversity assessment project for students, educators, naturalists, and researchers visiting the Napo-ACTS Field Station & Canopy Walkway located in the Loreto district of Peru and adjacent to the Maijuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation Area. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/napo-acts-virtual-field-guide-to-amazon-biodiversity
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The award was achieved thanks to the votes of thousands of the magazine's followers.
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A team of paleontologists found a giant fossilized skull along the shore of the Napo River in the Peruvian Amazon. To their surprise, the relic belonged to a newly described species of giant freshwater dolphin. This colossal creature swam in the rivers of the Amazon around 16 million years ago and is considered the largest-known […]
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Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, rumored to be the biggest in the world.
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Are you looking for great environmental stories to share on Earth Day and beyond? Look no further than our list of earth day books for kids.
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Check out our AWE from the Amazon playlist on YouTube! Full of short videos that capture AWE filled moments and encounters in the Amazon rainforest. Perfect for classroom use or a daily dose of wonder! https://youtube.com/playlist?
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Looking for ways to bring the Amazon into your classroom? Check out the Morpho Resource bank - full of original content and curated favorites from our partners!
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A beautiful story map that takes you inside our partner community of Sucusari and the lives of the Indigenous Maijuna fighting to save their ancestral lands. (More story maps like this are hosted on Morpho's ArcGIS mapping project page: .
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Engage students with a series of STEM activities based on an adventure scenario set in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Students imagine themselves to be a team of EnviroTech engineers returning to the U.S. from a conference in Brasilia, Brazil. When their plane crashes deep in the jungle, they work in groups to overcome various obstacles in their quest to survive and reach the nearest city as quickly and safely as possible.
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Laura Branch, a science teacher at Ernest Righetti High School in Santa Maria for the last 25 years, was named 2025 Teacher of the Year by the Santa Barbara County
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What harm can a road do? Plenty. Once built, illegal roads let loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers into the jungle, and the felling begins.
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We love Pacific Education Institute and their amazing FieldSTEM resoures - all available as free downloads!
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Roosevelt said the recent hype regarding the “garden cities” in Ecuador is “annoying”, as it is not a new discovery and it ignores older research from Latin American archaeologists.
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Biodiversity credits are still a nascent field, but have been gaining interest recently amid a surge of efforts to scale financing for nature - including species like this yellow-eared parrot from the The Bosque de Niebla cloud forest a biodiversity hotspot in the High Andes of Colombia.
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With current data on global biodiversity either lacking or flawed, a global satellite scheme aims to fill the gaps to target protection of our seas, soils and wildlife...
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Concepts like biodiversity loss are challenging to talk about—especially with children. How do you explain something that’s happening slowly and invisibly? But conversations are vital to understanding hidden threats, and photos offer a unique entry point.
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Illegal gold mining has ravaged the Peruvian Amazon, leaving behind pollution and denuded landscapes. A group of miners are working with a U.S. charity to restore the forest.
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