Amazônia em Chamas nº 12 – entendendo a relação entre o fogo e desmatamento em 2023
Apesar da redução de 50% no desmatamento na Amazônia, a pior seca em 125 anos aumentou o fogo em outras áreas do bioma, elevando a área queimada total para 10 milhões de hectares, 36% a mais do que em 2022. Dados foram publicados Nota Técnica Amazônia em Chamas nº...
Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s
From 2006 to 2010, deforestation in the Amazon frontier state of Mato Grosso decreased to 30% of its historical average (1996–2005) whereas agricultural production reached an all-time high. This study combines satellite data with government deforestation and...
Código Florestal: Nove propostas abrem caminho para consenso
Documento apresenta contribuições para o Relatório da Comissão de Meio Ambiente do Senado Federal sobre a reforma do Código Florestal brasileiro.
Systemic Conservation, REDD, and the Future of the Amazon Basin
The environmental movement has won hundreds of critical battles, but it is losing the war. The capacity of the planet to sustain life is declining (Brown 2011). In this essay, we introduce the concept of systemic conservation as a response to this global...
Forest Code: a brief overview of the critical issues and next steps
The changes approved by the Brazilian Senate Plenary are projected to be approved or vetoed by President Dilma Rousseff before the end of 2011. Here you can find the major changes in the most important Brazilian environmental law.
Temporal variability of forest fires in eastern Amazonia
Widespread occurrence of fires in Amazonian forests is known to be associated with extreme droughts, but historical data on the location and extent of forest fires are fundamental to determining the degree to which climate conditions and droughts have affected fire...
Fire‐induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior
Large‐scale wildfires are expected to accelerate forest dieback in Amazônia, but the fire vulnerability of tree species remains uncertain, in part due to the lack of studies relating fire‐induced mortality to both fire behavior and plant traits. To address this...