By 2040, many of Brazil’s existing and planned hydropower projects, including those in the Tapajós basin, could become unviable as drought worsens and river flows decrease.
Monthly Archives: November 2015
More than 11,000 fires in just one region of the Brazilian Amazon this year
While climate change can certainly exacerbate drought conditions, leading to more frequent wildfires, this year’s ferocious fire season might also have been heavily influenced by the El Niño event developing in the Pacific Ocean.
The millions of dollars forgiven to oil companies in Peru
Pluspetrol Norte company, whose contract in the most important lot of the country’s expired in August of this year, is the biggest beneficiary by law.
Smoke from October fires in Manaus was seen from space
Landsat system images, from NASA, show you how the skyline of Manaus went gray in the last days of the month, at the peak of the hottest season in the northern region of Brazil.[:]
Sierra del Divisor now is a National Park! Good news for Peruvian people
The park will have an area of more than one million hectares and it will protect a significant sample of biodiversity and a unique place in the Amazon.
Smoke from fires of October in Manaus was seen from space
Landsat system images, from NASA, let you see how the skyline of Manaus went gray in the last days of the month, at the peak of the hottest season in the northern region of Brazil.
Martin von Hildebrand: An audacious and ambitious plan for the amazon
Martín von Hildebrand is one of the most extraordinary conservation leaders you may have never heard of, he has spent nearly all of his adult life working for indigenous rights and conservation in the Amazon.
Research shows that oil pollution impacts in Peruvian reserve
Study seeks to understand impacts of oil spills during the period of oil operations in the reserve, with information of 565 water and soil samples for the period 1994-2015.
Oil exploration threatens forests in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Document prepared by the Amazon Regional Articulación (ARA), points out that, in the region, unlike the rest of the country, poverty rates are not only higher, as they have also increased.
1.4 million Brazilians co-sign zero deforestation bill submitted to Brazil’s Congress
Forest advocates want Brazil’s federal government to take swifter action to end deforestation of the Amazon altogether.