by Lucas Itaborahy | 13/03/2025 | News
By Lucas Guaraldo* Protected areas in the international Amazon concentrate jaguar populations and act as a shield for the species in the Arc of Deforestation. In a new article, published in the March issue of the scientific journal Biological Conservation, researchers...
by Lucas Itaborahy | 12/03/2025 | Note
The installation of a new thermoelectric plant in the Federal District, just 35 kilometers from the National Congress, represents a step backwards by opting for the most polluting form of energy generation, says IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute). The...
by Sara Leal | 10/03/2025 | News
by Karina Custódio* Forests frequently affected by fire and drought lose their ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil, according to a new study by IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute), published today (10/03) in the scientific...
by Sara Leal | 10/03/2025 | One and a Half Degrees
By Sara Leal* In an interview with Um Grau e Meio, Débora Fiametti, president of COOPERSAF (Cooperativa Solidária da Agricultura Familiar), talks about the role of women in the Rede Sementes Portal da Amazônia, in Mato Grosso. Sign up for IPAM’s free newsletter...
by Mariana Abuchain | 10/03/2025 | One and a Half Degrees
Antônia Oliveira lives in Carlinda, Mato Grosso, in a settlement called PDS (Sustainable Development Project). Her career in seed collection is directly linked to the agrarian reform. She is part of a group of five families who collect forest and agricultural seeds....
by Maria Garcia | 19/02/2025 | Amazoniar (EN)
The short film The Chief’s Call: Heritage, Land and Future will be released on the YouTube channel of IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute, acronym in Portuguese) this Friday (21). The documentary, which premiered on April 23, 2024, at Caixa Cultural Brasília...
by Bibiana Garrido | 24/01/2025 | News
The documentary Manaus Extrema, produced by IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute), will be screened for the first time at the Proteja Talks event, taking place on November 25 in Manaus, at the Bosque da Ciência. Filmed in 2023, the production highlights the...
by Bibiana Garrido | 30/11/2024 | News
By Bibiana Alcântara Garrido* Datavis: Karina Custódio** A technical note published by IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) on Friday, 26, shows that there are 80,180 mining sites in the Brazilian Amazon in a 241,000 ha area – more than twice the size...
by Marcelo de Sales Freitas | 17/09/2024 | News
*Climate Observatory The fires that burned 2.4 million hectares in the Amazon between June and August 2024 emitted 31.5 million tons of CO2 equivalent. That’s almost what Norway emits per year (32.5 million tons of CO2 equivalent). Compared to the same period in...
