Updated 3.3.2014

Journey to the Amazon

January-February 2011

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.")

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