Videos | December 16, 2010

Video: see the plants and animals Harvard climatologists encountered in Brazil

In this video, travel to Brazil with Harvard climatologists to see their work and the plants and critters they encountered.

From The January-February 2011 Issue

Harvard Magazine managing editor Jonathan Shaw traveled to Brazil's Amazon rainforest to see what Harvard climatologists were doing there. See some of the plants and animals he encountered, and video of the scholars at work. (And read the article, "Models—and Mud—in Amazonia.")

Published in the January-February 2011 print issue under the headline “Journey to the Amazon,” in the section.

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