by Taina Vieira | 10/12/2025 | News
Tainá Andrade* Women firefighters from different regions of the country met between December 8 and 10 to draw up the first Gender Action Plan for Prevfogo (the National Center for Preventing and Fighting Forest Fires) at Ibama (the Brazilian Institute for the...
by Nikole Cantoara | 09/12/2025 | News
Recognized for her contribution to combating deforestation in the face of the climate emergency, Julia Shimbo, a researcher at IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) and coordinator of the MapBiomas network, won the Todas Award in the...
by Taina Vieira | 09/12/2025 | News
Tainá Andrade* The MapBiomas network, of which IPAM (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia) is a part, launched on Friday (5) the third collection with an unprecedented mapping of Brazilian soil properties, which will allow, among other advances, analysis at...
by Marcelo de Sales Freitas | 01/12/2025 | News
One of the country’s leading experts on climate science, Paulo Artaxo, president of IPAM’s Board of Directors, points to advances in the COP30 agenda, but emphasizes that the urgent debate on fossil fuels is crucial. The scientist spoke to the newsletter...
by Sara Leal | 24/11/2025 | News
By Sara Leal* Launched at COP30 in Belém, the mini-documentary “Açaí Nativo: Fruto da Amazônia” (Native Açaí: Fruit of the Amazon ) tells the stories of riverine extractivist communities on Jacaré Xingu Island, in Cametá (PA). In the approximately...
by Karina Sousa | 21/11/2025 | News
27.9 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, or 34 times Brazil’s deforestation in 2024: this is the gap between the need to reduce global emissions to prevent the average global temperature from rising more than 1.5º C and the international emissions reduction...