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WesternAmazon:Brazil/Peru/Bolivia

From: Anton Foek
Length: 03:16

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Default-piece-image-1 How much climate change in the Western parts of the Amazon region in Brazil at the Peruvian and Bolivian border influences the rest of the planet? Listen to Dr. Irvin Foster Brown from Canton, NY, an American scientist at the Woods Hole Institute in Cambridge Mass. He has been working for the 15 years in Rio Branco Acre, a Brazilian state deep in the Amazon jungle at the border with other Amazon countries.

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How much climate change in the Western parts of the Amazon region in Brazil at the Peruvian and Bolivian border influences the rest of the planet? Listen to Dr. Irvin Foster Brown from Canton, NY, an American scientist at the Woods Hole Institute in Cambridge Mass. He has been working for the 15 years in Rio Branco Acre, a Brazilian state deep in the Amazon jungle at the border with other Amazon countries.

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