Paper challenges 1491 Amazonian population theories
There's a scholarly debate brewing about whether pre-Columbian Amazonian...populations settled in large numbers across...Amazonia and created the modern forest setting that many conservationists...take to be natural.' ... This view has become fashionable among many...archaeologists and anthropologists, and is challenged in a recent paper...from Dr. Mark Bush of the Florida Institute of Technolo...Human's ecological footprint in 2015 and Amazonia revealed
... Modeling global average productivity to compare environmental tradeoffs and human-induced stressors in the environment Thomas Dietz (Michigan State University), Eugene Rosa (Washington State University) and Richard York (University of Oregon) studied the impact of humans on the environment in a recent study, "Driving the human ecological footprint," published in the February issue of...... ... The Amazon contains the planets most biologically diverse tree communities, with up to three hundred species occurring in an area the size of just two football fields. Th...The search for El Dorado in the Amazonian rainforest might not have yielded pots of gold, but it has led to unearthing a different type of gold mine: some of the globe's richest soil that can transform poor soil into highly fertile ground.... That's not all. Scientists have a method to reproduce this soil -- known as terra preta, or Amazonian dark earths -- and say it can pull substantial amounts...