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Targeted conservation in Brazil could help protect the Amazon’s flying rivers

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Alexandra Popescu

2d ago

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MongabayTargeted conservation in Brazil could help protect the Amazon’s flying riversmongabay.com
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Twenty years ago, a meeting of scientists that included Brazilian climatologist Carlos Nobre coined the term “flying rivers” to describe the water vapor moving from east to west in the atmosphere over the Amazon Basin. These flows are carried from the Atlantic Ocean by the forest’s continuous recycling of moisture through evapotranspiration, a process where […]

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