by Bibiana Garrido | 24/11/2021 | News
Two more tapirs, Manga and Caroço – named after the mango fruit and its seed -, are now part of the group of animals of the species monitored by researchers from the Tanguro Tapir project, a partnership between IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) and...
by Lucas Itaborahy | 22/11/2021 | News
The invasion of public lands was the main cause of deforestation in the Amazon in the last year. IPAM’s analysis of the data released last week shows that 28% of the 13,200 square kilometers of the forests felled between August 2020 and July 2021 belonged to...
by Bibiana Garrido | 11/11/2021 | News
A study published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change this Thursday, 11, endorses the urgency of issues discussed at the biggest climate event in the world, the COP26, and points to the climatic limit of agriculture in Brazil. Scientists from Brazil and...
by Sara Leal | 03/11/2021 | News
Forest wildfires in the Amazon have emitted up to 1,298 Tg of CO2 since 1990, equivalent to the mean annual emissions of Japan. Fire-degraded forests store 25% less carbon than undisturbed forests and may represent a carbon source for at least ten years – even if the...
by Sara Leal | 03/11/2021 | Amazoniar (EN), News
Lays Ushirobira* The jury of the first edition of IPAM’s photo contest Amazoniar – Elza Lima, Felipe Russo, José Sabino and Martha Fellows – selected the winners of the four categories: Earth Sciences, Cultural Heritage, Conservation and Biodiversity. They chose...
by Sara Leal | 01/11/2021 | News
The third series of debates of Amazoniar, under the theme “Culture and art of indigenous peoples as a form of resistance”, came to an end on Thursday (Oct 21st). During the last event, communicator Erisvan Guajajara and artist Daiara Tukano addressed a point that...
