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“Oil companies focus on profit, without measuring the consequences”
One of the country's leading experts on climate science, Paulo Artaxo, president of IPAM's Board of Directors, points to the progress made at COP30, but emphasizes the urgent need for a debate on fossil fuels.
Rural producers in Brazil are paid for conservation in the Amazon
The voluntary mechanism is focusing on areas at risk of deforestation, and it is based on periodic payments, with an initial USD 4.2 million investment in three years.
New app helps indigenous people stay protected from covid-19
App shows number of confirmed cases of the disease in cities close to the indigenous territories of the legal Amazon and facilitates collection of information about infections.
Cerrado loses nearly 30 million hectares of native vegetation in 35 years
The second largest biome in the country currently has 53.2% coverage of native vegetation, or 19% of what is recorded in this category across Brazil; the data are from MapBiomas.
New Report: Fires Affect Health of Thousands in the Brazilian Amazon
Researchers attribute 2,195 hospitalizations due to respiratory illness to the 2019 fires; nearly 500 involved infants under 1 year old, and more than 1,000 people over age 60.
Scientists map land grabbing in public forests in the Brazilian Amazon
Of the 49.8 million hectares of forests under state and federal responsibility, but not yet allocated to any use, 11.6 million hectares are illegally registered as ‘private rural properties’.
Amazon Deforested Area to be Burned in 2020 May Exceed 4.5 Thousand km2
“Curbing fires and deforestation this year is not only an environmental protection action but a health measure as well,” said researcher Paulo Moutinho, from IPAM.