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...
Current and future patterns of fire-induced forest degradation in Amazonia
Amazon droughts directly increase forest flammability by reducing forest understory air and fuel moisture. Droughts also increase forest flammability indirectly by decreasing soil moisture, triggering leaf shedding, branch loss, and tree mortality—all of which...
Por que o Congresso deve rejeitar projeto que aumentará o desmatamento da Amazônia
Nota técnica de organizações da sociedade civil em repúdio ao PL nº 8.107/2017 e suas emendas. Autores: Grupo de Trabalho pelo Desmatamento Zero, Coalizão Pró-UC, Greenpeace Brasil, Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV), Instituto de Manejo e Certificação Florestal e...
Surprisingly Modest Water Quality Impacts From Expansion and Intensification of Large-Sscale Commercial Agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon-Cerrado Region
Large-scale commercial cropping of soybeans expanded in the tropical Amazon and Cerrado biomes of Brazil after 1990. More recently, cropping intensified from single-cropping of soybeans to double-cropping of soybeans with corn or cotton. Cropland expansion and...
The Forests of the Amazon and Cerrado Moderate Regional Climate and Are the Key to the Future
The role of tropical forests in climate is most often expressed in terms of the carbon they keep out of the atmosphere if deforestation is avoided or the carbon they remove from the atmosphere as they grow. The direct role of forests, particularly in the tropics,...
Cartilha – Plano Estadual da Agricultura Familiar de MT
A agricultura familiar é realizada em pequenas propriedades e representa uma atividade fundamental para a produção de alimentos, geração de renda e empregos, o crescimento econômico regional e a conservação ambiental em função da relação afetiva com a terra. O Plano Estadual da Agricultura Familiar de Mato Grosso, que você vai conhecer nesta cartilha, teve a participação de cerca de 880 pessoas, vindas de 99 cidades (ou seja, 70% dos municípios de Mato Grosso).
Using a Market-Based Instrument to Strategically Prevent Legal Deforestation in Mato Grosso
The research objective of this study was to model supply and demand for CRA, by accounting for priority areas defi ned in terms of deforestation risk, carbon stock, and biodiversity importance in the Amazon biome in Mato Grosso.