Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Forest degradation affects forest structure, composition and diversity, carbon stocks,
functionality and ecosystem processes. It is known to contribute significantly to global carbon …

Wildfire can cause significant adverse impacts to society and the environment. Weather and
climate play an important role in modulating wildfire activity. We explore the joint occurrence …

For half a century, the process of economic integration of the Amazon has been based on
intensive use of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, which has brought …

Because of human action, the Earth has entered an era where profound changes in the
global environment are creating novel conditions that will be discernable far into the future …

Biodiversity contributes to the ecological and climatic stability of the Amazon Basin,, but is
increasingly threatened by deforestation and fire,. Here we quantify these impacts over the …

Fires have influenced atmospheric composition and climate since the rise of vascular plants,
and satellite data have shown the overall global extent of fires. Our knowledge of historic fire …

Brazil has become an agricultural powerhouse, producing roughly 30% of the world's soy
and 15% of its beef by 2013–yet historically much of that growth has come at the expense of …

Despite efforts to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, there has been an up-turn in
clearing rates since 2012. These increases are in part due to failures in deforestation …

The response of the terrestrial carbon cycle to climate change is among the largest
uncertainties affecting future climate change projections,. The feedback between the …