Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon

JS Albert, AC Carnaval, SGA Flantua, LG Lohmann… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural
activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity …

Understanding fire regimes for a better Anthropocene

LT Kelly, MS Fletcher, IO Menor… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Fire is an integral part of the Earth System and humans have skillfully used fire for millennia.
Yet human activities are scaling up and reinforcing each other in ways that are reshaping …

Brazil is in water crisis—it needs a drought plan

A Getirana, R Libonati, M Cataldi - 2021 - nature.com
Brazil has the largest amount of fresh water in the world. Two-thirds of what flows in the
Amazon River alone could supply the world's demand. Yet much of the nation now faces …

The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires

S Legge, L Rumpff, JCZ Woinarski… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim After environmental disasters, species with large population losses may need urgent
protection to prevent extinction and support recovery. Following the 2019–2020 Australian …

The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature's Contributions to People

M Cimatti, R Chaplin-Kramer, M Di Marco - Nature Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing human pressures are driving a global loss of biodiversity and of Nature's
Contributions to People (NCP)—the contributions of living nature to people's quality of life …

Forest conservation in Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon

Y Qin, X Xiao, F Liu, F de Sa e Silva… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Conflicts between forest conservation and socio-economic development in the Brazilian
Legal Amazon (BLA) have persisted for years but the effects of Indigenous territory (ITs) and …

[图书][B] Climate and society: Transforming the future

R Leichenko, K O'Brien - 2024 - books.google.com
This bold and passionate textbook has become a go-to introduction to current and emerging
thinking on the social dimensions of climate change, presenting key concepts and …

Long-term landsat-based monthly burned area dataset for the Brazilian biomes using deep learning

AAC Alencar, VLS Arruda, WV Silva, DE Conciani… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fire is a significant agent of landscape transformation on Earth, and a dynamic and
ephemeral process that is challenging to map. Difficulties include the seasonality of native …

CLIMBra-Climate change dataset for Brazil

AS Ballarin, JS Sone, GC Gesualdo, D Schwamback… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract General Circulation and Earth System Models are the most advanced tools for
investigating climate responses to future scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions, playing …

Human‐modified landscapes driving the global primate extinction crisis

EJ Torres‐Romero, V Nijman… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The world's primates have been severely impacted in diverse and profound ways by
anthropogenic pressures. Here, we evaluate the impact of various infrastructures and …