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.
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The importance of forest structure for carbon fluxes of the Amazon rainforest
<p>Precise descriptions of forest productivity, biomass, and structure are essential for understanding ecosystem responses to climatic and anthropogenic changes. However, relations between these components
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Distinct inflammatory profile underlies pathological increases in creatinine levels associated with Plasmodium vivax malaria clinical severity
<p>Although Plasmodium vivax infection is a frequent cause of malaria worldwide, severe presentations have been more regularly described only in recent years. In this setting, despite clinical descriptions
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Amazon deforestation is close to tipping point
Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region's tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse shrubby
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World’s great forests could lose half of all wildlife as planet warms – report
The world’s greatest forests could lose more than half of their plant species by the end of the century unless nations ramp up efforts to tackle climate change, according to a new report on the impacts
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Wildlife in a warming world: the effects of climate change on biodiversity
Up to half of plant and animal species in the world’s most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon
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Peru sets up national park to protect 'one of the last great intact forests'
Yaguas National Park is home to more than 3,000 species of plants, 500 species of birds and 160 species of mammals Andes Amazon Fund The rainforests in Peru’s remote north-west corner are vast – so
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Brazilian ‘quilombo’ community entitled with 220,000 hectares of rainforest
Longtime residents of one of the country’s thousands of Quilombo communities have been given land titles for the first time. Quilombo communities are Brazilian peoples of African descent whose ancestors
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Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release
Despite a 76 percent decline in deforestation rates between 2003 and 2015, the incidence of forest fires is increasing in Brazil, with new research linking the rise in fires not only to deforestation,
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Forest fires increasingly dominate Amazonian carbon emissions during droughts
Carbon emissions from the Brazilian Amazon are increasingly dominated by forest fires during extreme droughts rather than by emissions from fires directly associated with the deforestation process, according
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Land use change over the Amazon forest and its impact on the local climate
<p>One of the most important anthropogenic influences on climate is land use change (LUC). In particular, the Amazon (AMZ) basin is a highly vulnerable area to climate change due to substantial modifications