[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 …

The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health

OK Lawler, HL Allan, PWJ Baxter… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2021 - thelancet.com
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by zoonotic SARS-CoV-2, has important links to
biodiversity loss and ecosystem health. These links range from anthropogenic activities …

Transformative changes are needed to support socio-bioeconomies for people and ecosystems in the Amazon

R Garrett, J Ferreira, R Abramovay, J Brandão… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Current social-technical and political conditions threaten the integrity of the Amazon biome.
Overcoming these lock-ins requires structural transformations away from conventional …

Transboundary frontiers: an emerging priority for biodiversity conservation

J Liu, DL Yong, CY Choi, L Gibson - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2020 - cell.com
The world's biomes and their associated ecosystems are artificially fractured by geopolitical
boundaries that define countries. Yet 'transboundary'landscapes often overlap with …

Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion

AS Flecker, Q Shi, RM Almeida, H Angarita… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Proposed hydropower dams at more than 350 sites throughout the Amazon require strategic
evaluation of trade-offs between the numerous ecosystem services provided by Earth's …

Global assessment of nature's contributions to people

Y Liu, B Fu, S Wang, JR Rhodes, Y Li, W Zhao, C Li… - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Synergistically maintain or enhance the numerous beneficial contributions of nature to the
quality of human life is an important but challenging question for achieving Sustainable …

Unveiling the factors responsible for Australia's Black Summer fires of 2019/2020

N Levin, M Yebra, S Phinn - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
The summer season of 2019–2020 has been named Australia's Black Summer because of
the large forest fires that burnt for months in southeast Australia, affecting millions of …

The landmark Escazú Agreement: An opportunity to integrate democracy, human rights, and transboundary conservation

S López‐Cubillos, L Muñoz‐Ávila… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the world's most biodiverse
regions, but this diversity is threatened by the overexploitation of natural resources and …

Social–ecological benefits of land–sea planning at multiple scales in Mesoamerica

JMS Delevaux, JM Silver, SG Winder, N Bood… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Deforestation impacts the ecosystem services provided by downstream coral reefs to coastal
communities in multiple ways, such as through increased sedimentation and nutrification …

Fire dynamics in Mato Grosso State, Brazil: the relative roles of gross primary productivity

FS Rossi, GAA Santos - Big Earth Data, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The fires and biomass burning are responsible for affect ecosystem processes in a wide
range of biomes at regional and global scales. In Brazil, the state of Mato Grosso is one of …