Science News Roundup: Amazon nations to set up rainforest science panel - Brazilian minister

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Amazon nations to set up rainforest science panel - Brazilian minister

Amazon countries meeting next week for a summit on cooperation to save the rainforest aim to set up a scientific body like the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to share research, Brazil's environment minister told Reuters. "The idea is to have a scientific panel for the Amazon with scientists from different countries, along the lines of the IPCC," Marina Silva said in an interview on Thursday.

(With inputs from agencies.)