Study finds Earth could reach 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels by 2040 and shows regional climate variables in fine detail. These findings, along with others, are very worrying for the Brazilian Amazon.
Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva grapples with deforestation, fossil-fuel pledges and commitments to Indigenous communities — all while having to work with a conservative Congress. Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva grapples with deforestation, fossil-fuel pledges and commitments to Indigenous communities — all while having to work with a conservative Congress.
Five policy briefs released at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai call for urgently protecting the Amazon Rainforest from degenerating into a dry savanna, providing insights about what drives destruction and degradation in the region and solutions for securing the basin’s sustainable future. The reports were published Dec. 9 by the Science Panel for the […]