Environment

Environment

Record fires in the Pantanal in 2020

There were 2,534 wildfires in the Pantanal in the first half of 2020

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Environment

Microplastics in the heart of the jungle

Researchers found microplastics in the sediment of the Negro, Solimões, and Amazonas rivers

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Environment

The return of deforestation

Official INPE figure says 10,129 km2 of the Amazon were deforested in 2019, the most since 2008

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INTERVIEW

Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão: The physicist who would not bend

Almost a year after being dismissed, the former director of INPE continues to warn that deforestation is out of control in the Amazon

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Biodiversity

At risk of disappearing

Hundreds of species of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals are at risk of disappearing in the next two decades as a result of environmental degradation caused by humans

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Environment

Biomes under attack

97% of the 12,000 square kilometers of land deforested in Brazil last year was in the Amazon and the Cerrado

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Covid-19

Self-isolation and city air

Self-isolation measures have cleared city streets, leading to a decrease in air pollution

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Video

How science helps environmental conservation

Biota-Fapesp program reaches its 20th anniversary lending scientific bases to the creation of nature preservation areas and the search for sustainable development in São Paulo state

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Careers

Dedicated to nature

Researcher switches from business administration to biology and becomes a leading expert in environmental preservation

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Atmospheric sciences 

Pizza soot

Pizzerias in São Paulo produce the equivalent of 9% of the fine particulate matter emitted by vehicles in the city’s Metropolitan Region

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Environment

Fire and biodiversity

Experiment suggests that small, controlled fires increase the number of plant species in the Cerrado without decreasing the number of animals

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Funding

Green stimulus

Sustainable technology incentives proposed for Brazilian industry could also have beneficial effects on economic growth, study says

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Environment

Beaches at risk of disappearing

Half of the planet's beaches could disappear by the end of the century due to rising sea levels and erosion caused by climate change

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Environment

Smoke at the top of the world

Since the eighteenth century, global industry has been leaving its mark at one of the highest points in the world: the Himalayas mountain range

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Ecology

Winged invasion

In four decades, 35 alien bird species have colonized deforested areas on experimental properties in Brazil’s Amazon

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Climate change

Australia on fire

Record-breaking heat and drought levels cause fires that cover an area 2.5 times the size of the 2019 Amazon fires

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Interview

Thelma Krug: The climate negotiator

Mathematician and vice president of the IPCC talks about environmental policy debates and Brazil's image abroad

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Environment

How to monitor forest fires

Data from NASA and INPE satellites confirm an increased number of fires in the Amazon

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Video

How does deforestation relate to new pandemics?

See how environmental degradation can favor the emergence of unknown viruses and unleash diseases such as the one caused by the novel coronavirus.

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Paleoclimate

Storms in the Ice Age

In the last glacial period, torrential rainfall in what is now Brazil was mostly concentrated in the Northeast and the Amazon

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Climate Change

The Amazon is now a source of CO2

Between 2010 and 2017, the rainforest emitted more carbon than it absorbed

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Environment

Oil spill spreads

Analysis suggests three potential sources of the oil near the Brazilian coast

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Environment

Deforestation increases, CO2 emissions stabilize

The rate of deforestation in the Legal Amazon increased by 30% between August 2018 and July 2019

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Cover

Two Amazons

The dry season is getting longer in the southern Amazon, where most deforestation occurs, while the northwest remains wet

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Environment

Climate change could lead to bread shortages

Severe and frequent droughts could become common by the end of this century as a result of climate change

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Public policy

Unsustainable energy

In addition to financial expenses, scholars see high social and environmental costs as obstacles to hydroelectric expansion in the Amazon

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Environment

How to monitor forest fires

Data from NASA and INPE satellites confirms increased number of fires in the Amazon

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Environment

Forestry budgets

Researchers examine why some conservation areas receive more public funding than others

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ENERGY

Winds of change

Brazilian wind power could provide three times more energy than all other electricity sources put together; it currently supplies 22 million homes

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Environment

How forests are reborn

In dry areas, hardwood trees are the first to naturally regenerate, while the reverse scenario occurs in wet forests

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