Carbon and the fate of the Amazon
This publication shows that carbon prices exceeding US$ 20 per ton of CO2 captured by the natural regeneration of deforested areas in the Amazon would be truly transformative for the region’s landscape.
Amazon
-
Germany and Brazil join forces on climate change action
Germany and Brazil committed themselves on Thursday to a joint stance on climate change, putting the largest economies in Europe and Latin America on the same page ahead of global climate talks in Paris
-
Germany: 500,000 ants protests to save the Amazon rainforest
Some half a million ants were recruited by the conservation organisation World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to call for the protection of the Amazon rainforest, ahead of a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel
-
Alien' plants spreading across the world causing billions in damage, says study
Many of the world’s plants are turning “alien”, spread by people into new areas where they choke out native vegetation in a worsening trend that causes billions of dollars in damage, scientists said on
-
Ribbiting news: frogs' poison spines revealed and new species discovered
Many of world’s frogs may be at risk of extinction, but something new always hops up in the amphibian world. In two separate journals in one afternoon, scientists have identified a brand new tree frog
-
Ecuador spied on Amazon oil plan opponents, leaked papers suggest
Government spies may have illegally targeted political and environmental opponents to president Rafael Correa’s plan to extract oil in Yasuni national park Ecuadorian spies may have broken the law by
-
Peru stalling new national park for unique Amazon mountain range
Over one million hectares, flora, fauna and people at risk from government failure to act The Sierra del Divisor region in the Peruvian Amazon was identified as a biodiversity conservation priority
-
Drug traffickers wiping out the jaguar in Central America
EL PINO, Honduras — The jaguar roams jungles and riverbanks from the Amazon to Mexico, and even into the southwestern United States. It’s a powerful and cunning hunter, and a single cat’s territory can
-
The influence of tropical volcanic eruptions on the climate of South America during the last millennium
<p>Currently, little is known on how volcanic eruptions impact large-scale climate phenomena such as paleo-ITCZ position or South American summer monsoon behavior. In this paper, an analysis of observations
-
Amazon’s Wildlife Threatened By Hydropower Dams, Study Says
As countries build more hydropower projects, new research warns that massive dams pose an extinction threat to mammals, birds and tortoises—at least in the Amazon. Brazil’s Balbina Dam has turned what
-
Widespread forest vertebrate extinctions induced by a mega hydroelectric dam in lowland Amazonia
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Mega hydropower projects in tropical forests pose a major emergent threat to terrestrial and freshwater