O departamento de Caquetá, na Amazônia Colombiana, passa por enormes mudanças. Sua parte ocidental, região onde a floresta amazônica avança sobre as encostas das montanhas andinas, se tornou o principal foco de desmatamento da Colômbia na última década. De acordo com o sistema de alertas de desmatamento Terra-i, Caquetá é o local com a maior […]
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Hackers Unite to Create Apps and Sensors to Monitor Water Quality
Concerned with the current water crisis in Brazil, professionals from several different fields of study met at the event “Hackathon: Data and Sensors to Measure Water Quality”, promoted by a Rede InfoAmazônia team. The purpose of the two meetings, which took place in São Paulo on September 5 and 15, was to discuss alternative ways […]
Institute of Brazilian government announces: deforestation in the Amazon is bigger than imagined
The latest PRODES data, from 2013, is already updated on InfoAmazonia As part of the Deforestation of the Legal Amazon Monitoring Project (PRODES), Brazil’s National Institute of Spacial Research (INPE) has released its updated figure of the deforestation rate in the Amazon, revealing ties between environmental policy and increased pressure on the rainforest. The PRODES […]
Peruvian Minister of Environment wants the Amazon discussed at COP 20
por Giovanny Vera and Gustavo Faleiros Pulgar Vidal will be the president of COP 20, the UN Summit on Climate Change hosted in Lima. Foto: InfoAmazonia.org Peru’s Minister of the Environment, Manuel Pulgar Vidal, interviewed by the InfoAmazonia.org team in Lima on the 8th, said that he hopes to sign an agreement about the REDD+ […]
Water and Citizenship in the Amazon
Water and Citizenship go hand in hand. When sources of clean water are damaged, human health suffers along with the social and economic health of communities that depend on agriculture and fishing, among other activities. Oil spilled in the month of July in the Marañon River, in Loreto department, Peru. Leaks are on the rise […]