Impact of Amazon’s climate-driven drought may last until 2026
The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, is regarded by scientists as a bulwark against climate change because its dense vegetation absorbs carbon and emits oxygen. “Even if we don’t knock down one more tree, the Amazon could reach its point of no return,” Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva warned the United Nations COP28 […]
Replanting the Amazon could help save the world’s climate. Here’s why it’s so hard to do
Threats are just one of the challenges facing Rioterra and other environmental groups around the world pursuing a seemingly simple fix for the climate crisis: replanting denuded forests. These projects, science suggests, could help slow global warming by trapping carbon dioxide in living trees. Such efforts also could restore wildlife habitats and help protect threatened species. In […]
New technologies offer nature more accurate health checks
While success in curbing global warming can be measured in terms of reductions in planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions, understanding what advances in biodiversity protection mean for governments and companies tends to be more complex. “You can’t actually measure ecosystem health just by monitoring what you can see,” said NatureMetrics CEO Katie Critchlow. Using environmental DNA, or “eDNA”, NatureMetrics says it can […]
Can Lula save the Amazon and the climate?
One of the most-watched visitors to the UN climate summit in Egypt this week has been incoming Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — more commonly referred to as Lula. With his successful election campaign having included a promise to arrest record deforestation in the Amazon, Lula carried huge expectations into the yearly climate […]
US, EU importing potentially illegal wood from Brazil
FILE PHOTO: An aerial view shows a river and a deforested plot of the Amazon near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil on August 14, 2020 Reuters According to the report, Brazilian environmental agency Ibama seized more than 1,800 cubic meters of wood from an Indusparquet subsidiary in 2018, estimated worth $2.5 million US and EU […]