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Despite land being highly protected, in a recent study, Dr. Leandro Castello identified key gaps in protection of the region’s freshwater systems and species …

Citizen-science teams produce data that WHRC scientists combine with remote sensing datasets to study habitat characteristics and bird biodiversity patterns …

Dr. Michael Coe was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Learn what the project will work to achieve as he studies agricultural expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado …

The effects of climate on agriculture are clear, but there is great potential for agriculture to be a source for significant climate solutions …

Research Associate Paul Lefebvre writes about his trip to the Tanguro Ranch, an ecological research station in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil ...

The Woods Hole Research Center invites you to join us for the second talk in a three part speaker series on May 30th on the current issues in sustainability science ...

The Grand Challenge:
The climate is changing at an unprecedented rate in human history, tropical forests are being cut, freshwater resources are at risk, and biological diversity is declining...

Solutions Require Science:
We at the Woods Hole Research Center are convinced that answers are possible and that science is crucial for framing the debate and finding the solutions...

What We Do:
Using satellite images of the Earth and field studies in ecology and economics, our scientists measure, model and map how humans are changing the world...

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Will boreal forest fires toast the permafrost?

New NFS-funded project titled Fire Regime Influences on Carbon Dynamics of Siberian Boreal Forests will look at the interaction of fire and climate-induced thawing.

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Special issue of Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society – Biological Sciences released

18 articles from researchers in Brazil, the US, and Europe focuses on the agricultural transformation of the Amazon.

Boreal Fire

Researchers uncover mystery of charcoal’s fate

An international team of researchers has uncovered one of nature’s long-kept secrets - the true fate of charcoal in the world’s soils.

Tundra

Amplified greenhouse effect shaping North into South

New paper in Nature Climate Change showing significant reduction in temperature and vegetation seasonality over northern latitudes.

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