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Amazonian dirt roads are choking Brazil's tropical streams

  • Written by Cecilia Gontijo Leal, Post-doctoral researcher in Applied Ecology, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém

The first time I traveled to the Amazon, in 2010, I had no idea what to expect. A doctoral student from the far-off Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, I imagined that my field work – studying fish habitats in the largest tropical forest on Earth – would be all boat rides on immense rivers and long jungle hikes.

In fact, all my research...

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