Amazonia on Fire: air quality in 2024 and 2025
Filipe V. de Arruda, Ane A. C. Alencar, Newton C. Monteiro, Vera L. S. Arruda, Ana Carolina M. Pessoa, João P. F. M. Ribeiro, Marcia Macedo, Luiz Felipe M. Martenexen, Renata da Costa, Antônio Willian F. de Melo, Ray P. Alves, Wallace V. Silva, Vanessa S. Ribeiro...
Amazon Fires in 2024: a point off the curve?
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...
Fires in Brazil in 2024: the land portrait of the burned area in the biomes
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...
20 years at Tanguro Field Station
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.
Scars Of Mining In Indigenous Lands Of The Brazilian Amazon
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...
Spatiotemporal Scenarios for Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon
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...
Socioenvironmental safeguards and the guarantee of forest people’s rights
For almost two decades, the mechanism known as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), coined under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has proved resilient as a proposal for dealing with greenhouse gas...