The Bonn challenge aims at the restoration of 350 million hectares of degraded ladscapes
by 2030. In Brazil, the restoration goal for 2030 is 12 million hectares. Despite the great …

In the increasingly polarized international political arena, it has become difficult to find
common ground to solve Brazil's ongoing environmental crisis, which has global as well as …

Tropical forests are recognized for their role in providing diverse ecosystem services (ESs),
with carbon uptake the best recognized. The capacity of tropical forests to provide ESs is …

It has been suggested that rainfall in the Amazon decreases if forest loss exceeds some
threshold, but the specific value of this threshold remains uncertain. Here, we investigate the …

Tropical forests play a critical role in the hydrological cycle and can influence local and
regional precipitation. Previous work has assessed the impacts of tropical deforestation on …

Brazil's environmental legislation obliges private properties to retain a fixed proportion of
their total area with native vegetation, the so-called “Legal Reserves”. Those areas …

Natural vegetation plays a vital role in ecosystem services, while anthropogenic land-use
change causes extensive damage to natural vegetation, decreasing ecosystem services …

The Amazon biome, spanning nine countries, has one of the highest rates of deforestation
worldwide. This deforestation contributes to biodiversity loss, climate change, the spread of …

Recent concurrent processes of vegetation greening and reduced resilience (the capacity to
recover from disturbances) worldwide have brought many uncertainties into sustainable …

A recent proposal to regulate mining within Indigenous Lands (ILs) threatens people and the
unique ecosystems of Brazil's Legal Amazon. Here, we show that this new policy could …