Report of the REDD workshop in Accra

After 40 years of government induced settlement of the Brazilian Amazon, the core of this region has experienced surprisingly little deforestation. The agriculture and ranching that cause deforestation depend upon reliable roads, which are concentrated along the...

The Amazon basin is the planet’s largest and most intense land-based centre of precipitation. This convective system is driven by high net surface radiation, which is dissipated via fluxes of latent heat and sensible heat. Over the long term (1 year or greater),...

O Cerrado é o segundo maior bioma sul-americano e a savana mais rica e ameaçada do mundo. Caracterizado por um mosaico de formações vegetais naturais (florestas, savanas e campos) com influência da sazonalidade climática, a classificação desse bioma por imagens de...