As the war with Iran exposes the risks of fossil fuels, the 1st International Conference on the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels brings together, in the Colombian city, a “coalition of the willing” seeking a global plan to phase out oil, gas, and coal.
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Want to help contain the Amazon crisis? Here some ways
People from all over offering to volunteer and donate to local actions in the Brazilian forest. If you want to help, this is an initial list of NGOs
Com seca, queimadas avançam pelo Brasil
[:en]Mapa com a última contagem feita pelo sensor VIIRS, que possui maior resolução e revelou mais de 6000 focos de calor no dia 26 de julho
Eyes on the forests: an Interview with Dr. Matthew Hansen, University of Maryland
Monitoring the state of the world’s forests is a monumental task with challenges in data collection, interpretation and display. The Global Forest Change (GFC), a project developed by Professor Matthew Hansen of the University of Maryland´s Geography Department, tackles this issue by using algorithms to distinguish forest cover and change in satellite imagery. From this […]
InfoAmazonia e UFOPA firmam parceria para pesquisar uso de sensores de qualidade d’água
A Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA) ampliou e consolidou a parceria com o InfoAmazonia, que já há dois anos trabalha no monitoramento comunitário e de baixo custo da qualidade da água na região amazônica
A Tipping Point For Humanity?
The negotiations at COP21 in Paris have not just been about climate change, but about our ability to act as a community of nations.
Why did the Brazilian government present a doubled rate of deforestation?
On August 14, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) presented the official rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between August 2013 and July 2014. This result is 3% higher than the number announced in November 2014.[:]
Through May 2015, there has already been 90% of the 2014 amount of deforestation in the Amazon
This year – which started in August 2014 and runs until July 2015 – has already seen 2 765 km² of land indicated by Deter deforestation alerts, INPE’s Real Time Detection System of Change in Forest Cover.[:]
Mato Grosso contains seven of the ten cities that were most deforested in March
Responsible for three-quarters of all deforestation recorded in March this year by the Institute of Man and Environment in the Amazon (Imazon), Mato Grosso dominated the list of cities that were the most devastated forests in the past month: seven of the ten highest in deforestation are in the state.
Visualizing Two Years of Fires in the Amazon Rainforest
Why we decided to make this map Fires in the Amazon, both purposefully and accidentally started by people, along with naturally occurring fires, are a serious problem with implications for global climate change.[:]