The Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM) [Amazon Environmental Research Institute], born in Belém, Pará, is a scientific, non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit organization. Since 1995, its mission has been to promote science, education, and innovation for an environmentally sound, economically prosperous, and socially just Amazon.
Fires in the Cerrado in 2024: a snapshot from January to September
The Cerrado biome is of extreme ecological and economic importance, playing a crucial role in water regulation (Sawyer et al. 2017), feeding the country's main river basins, and is the tropical savanna with the highest biodiversity in the world (Myers et al. 2000,...