“Power generation in the Amazon was originally designed to bring electricity to other regions of the country”

by Lucas Itaborahy | 21/09/2026 | News, One and a Half Degrees

The newsletter *Um Grau e Meio* interviewed Vinícius Oliveira da Silva, who holds a Ph.D. in Science from the Department of Electrical Power Engineering and Automation at EPUSP (Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo), project manager at IEMA (Institute of...

“The paradigm of clearing nature to make way for crops needs to be rethought”

by Lucas Itaborahy | 15/09/2026 | News

By Lucas Guaraldo Increasing agricultural productivity and protecting crops requires expanding conserved areas and integrating them into productive landscapes—not through deforestation, warned André Guimarães, executive director of IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research...

In China, IPAM Participates in an Exchange of Experiences in Restoration

by Lucas Itaborahy | 14/09/2026 | News

By Lucas Guaraldo  IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) participated inthe “Ecological Civilization Flagship Knowledge Exchange Program,”an event organized by the China-World Bank Global Center for Ecological Systems and Transitions in Beijing, China. The...

Experts say smoke from wildfires should be treated as a threat to public health

by Lucas Itaborahy | 11/09/2026 | News

By Lucas Guaraldo The impacts of particulate matter present in the smoke released by wildfires and forest fires should be treated as a growing risk to public health, according to experts who participated in the seminar “Politics, Science, and Territories in Integrated...

Cerrado Day: The biome has lost 7.9 million hectares of secondary vegetation in 39 years

by Lucas Itaborahy | 11/09/2026 | News

By Lucas Guaraldo Since 1987, the Cerrado has lost 7.9 million hectares of secondary vegetation—an area nearly twice the size of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The data was collected in an unprecedented survey conducted by researchers from IPAM (Amazon Environmental...