Testemunhas do Clima: Comunidade Igarapé do Costa

Forest clearing and degradation account for roughly 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than all the cars, trains, planes, ships, and trucks on earth. This is simply too big a piece of the problem to ignore; fail to reduce it and we will fail to stabilize...

The Amazon Region contains both the largest block of contiguous tropical forests and the largest river basin in the world. The Amazon Forest Biome spans an area of 6.5 million km 2 and includes Amazonian forests and the contiguous forests of the Guiana Shield and...

In the south-eastern Amazon, positive feedbacks between land use and severe weather events are increasing the frequency and intensity of fires, threatening local biodiversity. We sampled fruit-feeding butterflies in experimental plots in a south-eastern Amazon...