2020 was a devastating year for the Brazilian Amazon Deforestation destroyed the equivalent of more than two football pitches each minute in the Brazilian Amazon in 2020, another devastating year for a resource seen as vital to curbing climate change, according to government data released Friday. Brazilian space agency INPE identified 8,426 square kilometers...
Photo was taken from the top of the K34 flux tower site located 60km north of Manaus, Brazil. Credit: Xi Yang/University of Virginia Forests can help mitigate climate change, by taking in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and storing it in their biomass (tree trunks, roots, etc.). In fact, forests currently take in around 25-30%...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Forest fires have sent carbon dioxide emissions soaring in Brazil over the past two years, undermining efforts by the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to restore the country's environmental credentials. Emissions jumped 10% in 2019, Bolsonaro's first year in office, following a decade of small declines or stagnation, according to...