Land use change and deforestation can influence local temperature and climate. Here we use a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to assess the impact of savannization of the Amazon Basin on the wet-bulb globe temperature heat stress index under two climate change scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5). We ...
V. Climate benefits of intact Amazon forests and the biophysical consequences of disturbance. Front. For. Glob. Change 2, 47 (2019). Almeida, C. T., Oliveira-Júnior, J. F., Delgado, R. C., Cubo, P. & Ramos, M. C. Spatiotemporal rainfall and temperature trends throughout the ...
2008 . Climate change, deforestation, and the fate of the Amazon . Science 319 : 169 – 172 .Malhi Y , Roberts JT , Betts RA , Killeen TJ , Li W , Nobre CA . 2008 . Climate change, deforestation, and the fate of the Amazon . Science 319 : 169 ....
The Amazon, an area twice the size of India, holds the world’s largest rainforest, about two-thirds of it within Brazil. It stores vast amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that causes climate change. The Amazon thus prevents the climate from warming even ...
Guilherme Mataveli, one of the co-authors of the study, said that indigenous lands are "essential" for Brazil to meet such environmental goals as reducing the impacts of climate change, since the South American country holds 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest.■...
Climate change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon - Malhi, Roberts, et al. - 2008 () Citation Context ...lash farming, and more recently, rapid expansion ofssoybean plantations fuelled by the agricultural commodities boom. Other driverssinclude illegal logging, infrastructure projects, and ...
If the Amazon does have an influence on these regions however, it could mean there is a higher risk the Amazon tipping point might set others off, saysJonathan Dongesat the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. “It adds an additional potential domino that can fall.”...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed drought that in turn...
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged to a 12-year high in the year between August 2019 and July 2020, according to the country’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
Impacts of a large-scale titling initiative on deforestation in the Brazilian AmazonClimate-change policyEnvironmental economicsEnvironmental impactAcross carbon- and biodiversity-rich tropical forests, titling initiatives are implemented with the goal of regularizing land tenure and decreasing deforestation. ...