Research Led by Future Earth Members Featured in Top Tier Media
A synthesis of findings led by David Lapola and co-authored by other members of of the Future Earth Global Research Network Analysis, Integration, and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) has garnered global media coverage in several top tier outlets, including CNN, The Guardian, BBC News Brasil, and Bloomberg. The article is also on this week’s cover of Science.
The researchers found that the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of remaining forest affected by humans.
The paper was led by an international team of 35 scientists and researchers, from institutions such as Brazil’s University of Campinas (Unicamp), the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), and UK’s Lancaster University. It shows that up to 38% of the remaining Amazon forest area – equivalent to ten times the size of the UK – has been affected by some form of human disturbance, causing carbon emissions equivalent to or greater than those from deforestation.
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Banner photo credit: Adam Ronan/Rede Amazônia Sustentável | Photo taken in 2015 of a burning forest in Belterra, in the Brazilian Amazon. While the flames cannot be seen, the smoke coming out of the forest is clear.
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January 27, 2023AUTHOR
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