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Amazon's rain-making power fuels farms and water supplies. Experts value it at $20 billion a year
Scientists realized that the rain-making services of tropical forests have long been taken for granted, so they stepped ...
The biotic pump theory was developed by scientists Anastassia Makarieva and the late Victor Gorshkov, who were Russian theoretical physicists working for the Theoretical Physics Division of the ...
A new study reveals that the Brazilian Amazon produces rainfall worth about $20 billion per year to regional agriculture.
Deforestation in the Amazon is making the region hotter and drier, with less rainfall as the forest loses its ability to recycle moisture.
Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing ...
A new study puts a price tag on forest-generated rainfall, making the economic case for protecting tropical forests as deforestation rises.
Every year, tropical forests release countless litres of water into the atmosphere, generating rain. New research has estimated the value of this ecosystem service at billions of pounds every year, ...
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