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Simulation shows how modern interventions can affect tropical forests and indigenous people
2016-03-26 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: People have thrived deep within the Amazon rainforest for hundreds of years without contact with the outside world. The constant encroachment of modern civilization, however, is putting the long-term sustainability of these people, and the ecosystems they inhabit, at risk. Now a team of Stanford researchers has developed a computer model that can help understand the ways that activities such as clear-cutting and welfare programs might impact the future of the land and the people who live inside...
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