[HTML][HTML] Understanding Brazil's catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies

VR Pivello, I Vieira, AV Christianini, DB Ribeiro… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Brazil has experienced unprecedented wildfires in the last decade. Images of immense
burnt areas or dead animals that failed to escape the 2020 wildfires have shocked the world …

Ecosystem services provided by river-floodplain ecosystems

DK Petsch, VM Cionek, SM Thomaz, NCL Dos Santos - Hydrobiologia, 2023‏ - Springer
River-floodplain ecosystems (RFEs) provide multiple ecosystem services. However, their
importance may be underestimated because they are not summarized yet. In this paper, we …

Impact of tourism development upon environmental sustainability: a suggested framework for sustainable ecotourism

QB Baloch, SN Shah, N Iqbal, M Sheeraz… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023‏ - Springer
The empirical research investigated the relationship between tourism development and
environmental suitability to propose a framework for sustainable ecotourism. The framework …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution perspective

B Clarke, F Otto, R Stuart-Smith… - Environmental Research …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme event attribution aims to elucidate the link between global climate change, extreme
weather events, and the harms experienced on the ground by people, property, and nature …

Central and south america

EJ Castellanos, MF Lemos, L Astigarraga, N Chacón… - 2022‏ - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …

Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal

R Libonati, JL Geirinhas, PS Silva… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The year 2020 had the most catastrophic fire season over the last two decades in the
Pantanal, which led to outstanding environmental impacts. Indeed, much of the Pantanal …

Record-breaking wildfires in the world's largest continuous tropical wetland: Integrative fire management is urgently needed for both biodiversity and humans

LC Garcia, JK Szabo, F de Oliveira Roque… - Journal of environmental …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract In the Brazilian Pantanal, wildfire occurrence has increased, reaching record highs
of over 40,000 km 2 in 2020. Smoke from wildfires worsened the situation of isolated, as well …

Distance sampling surveys reveal 17 million vertebrates directly killed by the 2020's wildfires in the Pantanal, Brazil

WM Tomas, CN Berlinck, RM Chiaravalloti… - Scientific Reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Anthropogenic factors have significantly influenced the frequency, duration, and intensity of
meteorological drought in many regions of the globe, and the increased frequency of …

Amazon savannization and climate change are projected to increase dry season length and temperature extremes over Brazil

MJ Bottino, P Nobre, E Giarolla, MB da Silva Junior… - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Land use change and atmospheric composition, two drivers of climate change, can interact
to affect both local and remote climate regimes. Previous works have considered the effects …

[HTML][HTML] The new historical flood of 2021 in the Amazon River compared to major floods of the 21st century: Atmospheric features in the context of the intensification of …

JC Espinoza, JA Marengo, J Schongart… - Weather and Climate …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
In June 2021 a new extreme flood was reported in the Amazon Basin, the largest
hydrological system on Earth. During this event water level was above 29 m (the emergency …