Small-scale logging leads to clear-cutting in Brazilian Amazon
Stanford, CA-A team of scientists, led by Greg Asner of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, has discovered an important indicator of rain forest vulnerability to clear-cutting in Brazil. Their five-year study is the first to quantify the relationship between selective logging, where loggers extract individual trees from the rain forest, and complete deforestation, or clear-c...UGA's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases receives grant to train Brazilian scientists
The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD) at the University of Georgia has received a $1.2 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center to provide informatics training to Brazilian researchers. The grant will help a Brazilian ministry of health laboratory (the Centro de Pesquisas Ren Rachou FIOCRUZ) develop both the infrastructur...