by Nikole Cantoara | 18/11/2025
The aim of this policy brief was thus to estimate gross greenhouse gas emissions caused by the 2024 fires in Brazil and highlight the relevance of this component in the country’s emission profile. To this end, we disaggregated the analysis of fire-affected areas by...
by Maria Garcia | 04/06/2025
The Indigenous Committee on Climate Change (CIMC, in Portuguese) monitors national and international debates on climate change. It disseminates studies conducted by indigenous peoples on climate change to promote traditional knowledge. This newsletter aims to...
by Lucas Itaborahy | 03/02/2025
The document is part of the Sustainable Landscapes Initiative in Western Mato Grosso, which aims to increase sustainable agricultural production in the state while ensuring the conservation of native vegetation and the inclusion of small farmers and traditional...
by Bibiana Garrido | 11/11/2024
The Cerrado biome is of extreme ecological and economic importance, playing a crucial role in water regulation (Sawyer et al. 2017), feeding the country’s main river basins, and is the tropical savanna with the highest biodiversity in the world (Myers et al....
by Bibiana Garrido | 11/11/2024
In 2024, the Amazon faces one of the most severe droughts ever recorded, exacerbating an already alarming environmental crisis in the region. The combination of extremely low rainfall levels, elevated temperatures, and uncontrolled use of fire linked to agricultural...
by Bibiana Garrido | 17/10/2024
The year 2024 has been marked by an intensification of fires and wildfires in Brazilian biomes, particularly in the Amazon, the Cerrado, and the Pantanal. The use of fire, whether accidental or intentional, continues to be one of the main factors of environmental...
by Sara Leal | 10/06/2024
For two decades, this research station has stood at the southern edge of the Amazon rainforest as a perfect natural laboratory to study the changing biome.
by Mariana Guths | 02/05/2024
Indigenous Lands are territories inhabited by multiple indigenous societies that express their worldviews (Little, 2002). These areas, demarcated across the entire national territory, are intended to safeguard the fundamental rights of Indigenous Peoples (Eloy Amado,...
by Lucas Itaborahy | 29/04/2024
Researchers from IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) created, in partnership with the World Bank, a platform where it is possible to predict the risk of deforestation and estimate the future deforested areas in the states of the Legal Amazon. The research...
