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
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Amazonian locals key to saving 'lungs of the planet' says study
- Locals are more effective than governments in protecting the world's largest rainforest, a study said on Tuesday, amid efforts to crackdown on soaring illegal deforestation. Ranching and logging are
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Land grab in Amazon jungle threatens dispossession, violence and murder
On 23 August it emerged that the president of Brazil, Michel Temer, had issued a decree abolishing the protected status of an immense area of the Amazon forest. The area is in the north of the country,
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Top-notch reserve in Amazon brings deforestation to zero
The Juma Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS), in the northern state of Amazonas, is regarded as a model both in the country and across the world. In addition to bringing the deforestation rate down to
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Indigenous communities resist Chinese mining in Amazonian Ecuador
Last weekend, a tribunal held by indigenous communities in Gualaquiza, in the Amazon headwaters region of Ecuador, accused the nation’s first large scale mining operation of major human and environmental
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Intact forests crucial to Amazon ecosystem resilience, stable climate
Three recent South American studies emphasize the importance of intact forests to healthy habitat and a stable climate — both locally, and at a great distance. The first study found that forest
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Brazil to redo Amazon mining decree after criticism
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s government will revise a decree that opened up a vast mineral reserve in the Amazon rainforest to mining, ministers told journalists on Monday, responding to overwhelming
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Influence of super-parameterization and a higher-order turbulence closure on rainfall bias over Amazonia in Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (CAM5)
<p>We evaluate the Community Atmosphere Model Version 5 (CAM5) with a higher-order turbulence closure scheme, named Cloud Layers Unified By Binomials (CLUBB), and a Multiscale Modeling Framework, referred
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Brazil abolishes huge Amazon reserve in 'biggest attack' in 50 years
The Brazilian president Michel Temer has abolished an Amazonian reserve the size of Denmark, prompting concerns of an influx of mineral companies, road-builders and workers into the species-rich forest.
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Brazil's agents of the Amazon fighting loggers, fires to stop deforestation
APUI, Brazil (Reuters) - The small town of Apui sits at the new frontline of Brazil's fight against advancing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, where vast forest fires belch jet black smoke visible
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The potential impact of new Andean dams on Amazon fluvial ecosystems
<p>Increased energy demand has led to plans for building many new dams in the western Amazon, mostly in the Andean region. Historical data and mechanistic scenarios are used to examine potential impacts