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Daniel Grossman

Daniel Grossman is a journalist and radio producer, based in Boston

November 2021

  • The golden-crowned spadebill

    The age of extinction
    Amazon birds shrink but grow longer wings in sign of global heating

    Some species in Brazil have shrunk by nearly 10% over 40 years of measurements, say researchers

October 2020

  • Birds at sun rise amid smoke from a burning tract of Amazon jungle, being cleared by loggers and farmers near Porto Velho, Brazil

    Nine insect-eating bird species in Amazon in sharp decline, scientists find

    Paper suggests climate crisis reducing insects in lowlands and central jungle, as fruit-eaters not affected

October 2019

  • The male white bellbird

    Fowl language: Amazonian bird's mating call noisiest in world

    White bellbird’s call reaches same volume as pneumatic drill during courtship ritual

April 2019

  • The view from inside a closed chamber

    Amazon's trees get taste of air of the future

    Experiment aims to learn how rainforest might respond to rising CO2 levels

January 2018

  • The forests of Wayqecha, Peru

    Giant curtain erected in Peru in bid to reveal secrets of the cloud forest

    Global warming is predicted to push clouds higher in the sky. One scientist hopes to understand the future of our forests by suspending a vast fog-catching mesh in the Peruvian jungle

September 2017

  • Inera, the abandoned research station along the Congo river in Yangambi, DRC, where the cache of notebooks was discovered.

    Long-lost Congo notebooks may shed light on how trees react to climate change

    Decaying notebooks discovered in an abandoned research station contain a treasure trove of tree growth data dating from 1930s

October 2016

  • Cleaning Heaters during experiment to understand impact of climate chang on in Puerto Rico rainforest

    Global warming experiment turns up the heat in Puerto Rican forest

    A pioneering research project is aiming to determine how forests in the Amazon, the Congo and elsewhere in the tropics will reacting to rising temperatures