Climate benefits of Amazon secondary forests—recent advances and research needs
A quarter of the deforested Amazon has regrown as secondary tropical forest and yet the climatic importance of these complex regenerating landscapes is only beginning to be recognised. Advances in satellite remote-sensing have transformed our ability to detect and...
Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest
Amazon forests are a key but poorly understood component of the global carbon cycle. If, as anticipated, they dry this century, they might accelerate climate change through carbon losses and changed surface energy balances. We used records from multiple long-term...
Clima e Desmatamento no Xingu – Cadastro de compromisso socioambiental (CCS)
Unindo esforços, as ONGs Aliança da Terra e IPAM (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia) junto com produtores rurais e outros agentes sociais criaram o cadastro de compromisso socioambiental (CCS). Através do CCS é feito um diagnóstico da situação da propriedade rural em termos ambientais e sociais.