Fogo no Cerrado em 2024: retrato de janeiro a setembro
O bioma Cerrado é de extrema importância ecológica e econômica, desempenhando um papel crucial na regulação hídrica (Sawyer et al. 2017), alimentando as principais bacias hidrográficas do país, além de ser a savana tropical com maior biodiversidade do mundo (Myers...
Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in 5 years?
Halving carbon emissions from tropical deforestation by 2020 could help bring the international community closer to the agreed goal of <2 degree increase in global average temperature change and is consistent with a target set last year by the governments,...
Tropical Forests: Conserving Climate and Culture
Climate change is occurring now in many places in the tropics. Avoiding large future changes will require empowerment of indigenous peoples and traditional communities as land stewards. Further, scientists must work with stakeholders and policymakers to understand...
GIS without GPS: new opportunities in technology and survey research to link people and place
This paper presents innovative ways to relate survey data to GIS maps, thereby making the connection of people and place more accessible for the research community. Based on data from rural areas in the Brazilian Amazon, we describe a successful effort to sample...
Changing Amazon biomass and the role of atmospheric CO2 concentration, climate, and land use
The Amazon tropical evergreen forest is an important component of the global carbon budget. Its forest floristic composition, structure, and function are sensitive to changes in climate, atmospheric composition, and land use. In this study biomass and productivity...
Desmatamento até 2014 conforme classificação fundiária
Mapa produzido pelo IPAM indica desmatamento na Amazônia até 2014 e classificação fundiária.
PEC 215: Ameaça aos direitos e ao meio ambiente
Não somente os direitos indígenas, garantidos pela Constituição Federal de 1988, estão ameaçados pela Proposta de Emenda Constitucional 215 de 2000 (PEC 215/00). Atualmente em discussão no Congresso Nacional, esta PEC, que também abarca propostas apensadas...