Brazil contains the largest volume of freshwater of any nation in the world; however, this
essential natural resource is threatened by rapid increases in water consumption and water …

Ongoing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is the outcome of an explicit federal project to
occupy, integrate, and “modernize” the region. Although there have been isolated periods of …

The globally important carbon sink of intact, old-growth tropical humid forests is declining
because of climate change, deforestation and degradation from fire and logging …

Tropical secondary forests sequester carbon up to 20 times faster than old-growth forests.
This rate does not capture spatial regrowth patterns due to environmental and disturbance …

There is an increasing recognition that, although the climate change and biodiversity crises
are fundamentally connected, they have been primarily addressed independently and a …

Animal agriculture contributes significantly to global warming through ongoing emissions of
the potent greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, and displacement of biomass …

Under suitable conditions, deforested land used for agricultural crops or pastures can revert
to forest through the assisted or unassisted process of natural regeneration. These naturally …

With humanity facing an unprecedented climate crisis, the conservation of tropical forests
has never been so important–their vast terrestrial carbon stocks can be turned into …

Forest loss and degradation are the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide. Rising global
wood demand threatens further damage to remaining native forests. Contrasting solutions …

Tropical forests store large amounts of carbon and high biodiversity, but are being degraded
at alarming rates. The emerging global Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) agenda …