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Phys.org: Satellite technology shows Amazon absorbing less carbon due to less rainfall

By Mark Smith 29 de October de 201414 de September de 2020

The forest that remains is receiving less rain, which in turn is making it less green which means the trees that are there are pulling in less carbon dioxide from the air around them.

Brazil unlikely to keep reducing deforestation without new incentives

By Mark Smith 13 de October de 201414 de September de 2020

Cattle ranchers that drive the vast majority of forest clearing in the Brazilian Amazon are unlikely to be held at bay indefinitely unless they are afforded new incentives for keeping trees standing, argues new analysis published by an economic research group.

Scientists uncover five new species of ‘toupee’ monkeys in the Amazon

By Mark Smith 2 de September de 201414 de September de 2020

The director and co-founder of the Global Conservation Institute, spent ten years studying the saki monkey family. This monkeys, like all South American primates, suffer from the effects of region-wide habitat disturbances.

New map offers a solution to the ‘Pandora’s Box of environmental problems’

By Mark Smith 30 de August de 201414 de September de 2020

A new study found many areas where agriculture and livelihoods could be improved significantly with the addition of roads, while exacting a relatively small toll on the environment.

Brazil could meet all its food demand by 2040 without cutting down another tree

By Mark Smith 24 de July de 201414 de September de 2020

Better utilization of its vast areas of pasturelands could enable Brazil to dramatically boost agricultural production without the need to clear another hectare of Amazon rainforest, cerrado, or Atlantic forest, argues a new study published in the journal Global Environmental Change.

New Stanford Model Can Reveal Globalization’s Effects On The Amazon

By Mark Smith 22 de July de 201414 de September de 2020

Stanford has unveiled new software that will be able to understand how outside influences can affect the sustainability of Indigenous people in the Amazon.

Phys.org: Parts of the Amazon basin may have once looked more like open savannah

By Mark Smith 8 de July de 201414 de September de 2020

Findings have serious implications for understanding past climate change, and how the Amazon basin might react to more modern forest clearance.

BBC News: Carbon loss from tropical forests is “underestimated”

By Mark Smith 28 de May de 201414 de September de 2020

Researchers say degradation in Brazil causes additional emissions equivalent to 40% of those from deforestation.

Scientific American: Fires can pose threat to Amazon rainforest

By Mark Smith 27 de May de 201414 de September de 2020

In the Brazilian Amazon deforestation is a serious problem. But a new study suggests that there is another threat to the rainforest that has been largely ignored: fire.

Phys.org: Amazon rainforest survey could improve carbon offset schemes

By Mark Smith 28 de April de 201414 de September de 2020

Researchers from the Universities of Leeds and Edinburgh studying the Amazon Basin have revealed unprecedented detail of the size, age and species of trees across the region by comparing satellite maps with hundreds of field plots.

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