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...
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...
PEC 215: Threat to Rights and to the Environment
In addition to enforcing the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples, Indigenous Lands (ILs) are crucial for the maintenance of important ecosystem services. However, this role is under threat. If the Proposed Constitutional Amendment 215 of 2000 (PEC 215/00), currently under discussion in the Brazilian National Congress, is approved, it can cause serious legal insecurity for Indigenous Lands.
Projections of future meteorological drought and wet periods in the Amazon
Future intensification of Amazon drought resulting from climate change may cause increased fire activity, tree mortality, and emissions of carbon to the atmosphere across large areas of Amazonia. To provide a basis for addressing these issues, we examine properties of recent and future meteorological droughts in the Amazon in 35 climate models.
Instrumentos econômicos de apoio à implementação do novo Código Florestal
Em vista da lenta implementação dos mecanismos previstos no Capítulo X do Código Florestal e a necessidade de trazer o tema para o conhecimento público, o Observatório do Código Florestal realizou em Brasília no dia 14 de novembro de 2014 o seminário Instrumentos...