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 Lucas Itaborahy | 27/11/2025 | Sem categoria
IPAM (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia) vehemently repudiates the historic setback represented by the overturning of vetoes to Law 15.190/25, which weakens Environmental Licensing in Brazil. Days after the end of COP30, a milestone in the country’s...
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...
by Maria Garcia | 19/11/2025 | News
On Wednesday (19), during COP30 in Belém, IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) and ACEF (China Environmental Federation) signed an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) to promote the exchange of knowledge on forest protection and climate change. Under the...
by Lucas Itaborahy | 19/11/2025 | News
Pro Lucas Guaraldo* Legal Reserve liabilities on rural properties – areas of vegetation within properties that should be conserved but have been deforested – already total 18 million hectares, an area larger than the state of Acre. Liabilities in APPs...
