While the world urgently hopes to reduce GHG emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation, the Brazilian Amazon offshore potentially becomes a new frontier for oil companies. The expected impact of oil royalties on the regional GDP is a political driving force...
Land-use change (LUC) accounted for approximately 66% of CO2 emissions in Brazil in 2020, with significant implications for carbon footprint of Brazilian agricultural products. Accurate LUC estimates associated with agriculture are critical to carbon footprint (CF)...
Rising competition for crop usage presents policy challenges exacerbated by poor understanding of where crops are harvested for various uses. Here we create high-resolution global maps showing where crops are harvested for seven broad use categories—food, feed,...
A partir de coletas de animais em lagos de meandro do Rio Purus, no município de Boca do Acre, pesquisadores do IPAM (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia), da UFAC (Universidade Federal do Acre) e do Instituto Boitatá buscam compreender melhor os fatores...
Nossa análise mostra que apenas 1,3% dos alertas de desmatamento na Amazônia brasileira publicados pelo MapBiomas Alerta correspondem aos autos de infração e/ou embargos do IBAMA.
Our results reveal an extremely low number (1.3%) of enforcement actions in deforested areas, warning that impunity can undermine the expected dissuasive effect against environmental crime in Amazon.
O documento-síntese do Zoneamento Ecológico-Econômico do Acre – Fase III foi cuidadosamente preparado para apresentar, de forma única, subsídio à gestão territorial e ambiental para nosso estado. Para tanto, buscou-se revisar, atualizar e incorporar temáticas que...