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Nalini Nadkarni, the ecologist revealing the secrets of cloud forests

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Nalini Nadkarni, the ecologist revealing the secrets of cloud forests

How a pioneering canopy researcher unlocked the mysteries of an extraordinary ecosystem and the unlikely tree-dwelling plants it depends on

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The Amazon rainforest in Brazil

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Deforestation is reducing rainfall all over the tropics

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A gold mine in Bolivar state in the south of Venezuela

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Deforestation in Venezuela surges as gold miners ransack the Amazon

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The search for Britain’s lost rainforests and the battle to save them

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The search for Britain’s lost rainforests and the battle to save them

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Tree stumps

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Crucial Congo rainforest faces growing threats from logging and mining

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A complex network of fungi links orchids in the rainforest canopy

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Tikal National Park - part of the Maya Forest in Guatemala

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Guatemala’s rainforest is expanding thanks to community efforts

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The Amazon has descended into lawlessness in Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil

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We need to count every tree on the planet - here’s why

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We need to count every tree on the planet - here’s why

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2EXXD38 March 3, 2021: The Brazilian Ministry of Health, with support from the Armed Forces, applies vaccines to indigenous people in the village of Iuarete, municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the state of Amazonas, on Wednesday (3).The action immunized, against Covid19, about 350 indigenous people in the villages of Taracua Igarape and Santo Atanasio, which are in areas of difficult access in the Amazon Forest, on the border between Brazil and Colombia. Credit: Paulo Lopes/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News

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Indigenous groups threatened by gold exploration in remote Amazon

Gold mining in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira would drive deforestation and increase mercury pollution, say ecologists

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The Amazon is turning into savannah – we have 5 years to save it

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Strange new fairy lantern plant is already critically endangered

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