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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. According to new research published on February 14th on Nature, nearly half of the Amazon will face several “unprecedented” stressors that could push the forest toward a major tipping point by 2050.The largest rainforest in the world he's already under pressure due to climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss and extreme weather conditions. About 20% of the Amazon it has already been deforested and another 6% are “highly degraded.” According to several studies, the Brazilian section of the Amazon is now a net “source” of carbon, rather than a “sink,” due to a number of factors including deforestation. The scholars have long warned that climate change and human-driven deforestation could push the Amazon forest beyond the “tipping point,” a threshold that, if exceeded, would see the “disappearance&rdquo...

In Brazil there is a mission that is the result of collaboration between researchers and indigenous populations and which aims to protect Amazonian primates: this is the Reconecta Project, which was conceived by the biologist and winner of the 2024 Whitley Prize Fernanda Ambra and involves the construction of "bridges" aimed at connecting the crowns of the trees located on both sides of the road that runs through the states of Amazonas and Roraima, thus allowing the fauna local area to cross avoiding the risk of investment, which is in fact one of the main causes of death for primates in the region.Working on the project is «a wealth of knowledge and a wonderful learning experience» according to the biologist, who underlined the importance of involving traditional communities as «they know exactly what is needed to protect the forests». Brazil is facing an environmental dilemma that is anything but indifferent in that it has one of the largest road net...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The fires around Palermo, on the island of Rhodes, in Greece, in Algeria;the torrential rains that hit Milan at night;the record temperatures that continue from week to week and divide Europe, and Italy in particular, in two:thunderstorms in the north, Saharan dust in the centre-south. Perfect image to summarize what Italy is experiencing.Thunderstorms in the North and in part of Tuscany, intrusion of Saharan dust in the centre-south suspended within desert air masses.It is the last act of 17 days that are unlikely to be forgotten. pic.twitter.com/RJ7OgwRZwu— Giulio Betti (@Giulio_Firenze) July 25, 2023 If we needed further manifestations of the effects of the climate crisis, we are experiencing them first-hand. At all latitudes, from the far west to Japan.Nevertheless it's still there those who sow doubts, belittle and pollute the public debate by claiming that it is not the first...

Last week, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, together with the Minister for Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara and the Minister of Justice and Public Security Ricardo Lewandowski, signed the decrees approving two new indigenous lands in the territories of Bahia and Mato Grosso.The two new territories, in which members of the Pataxó and Karajá indigenous groups will live, will extend over approximately 35 thousand hectares.Thus, a total of 10 indigenous lands were approved in about a year and a half, thanks to the work of the two ministries involved and FUNAI (National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples)."There protection of ancestral peoples it is closely linked to the sustainability not only of our country, but of the entire planet" declared Minister Lewandowski during the meeting with the CNPI (National Council for Indigenous Policies), where the decrees were signed.«Supporting the rights of indigenous peoples means supporting the righ...

Thanks to the political choices made by the governments of Brazil and Colombia last year, the deforestation of the Amazon has definitely slowed down.The decisions of the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have in fact recorded a 36% decrease in the loss of primary forests in 2023 (the lowest level since 2015), while in Colombia, under the presidency of Gustavo Petro, the loss of primary forests halved (-49%) compared to the previous year.Similar data demonstrate how environmental protection constitutes in all respects a viable political choice, and how the decision to pursue these objectives can lead, in just one year, to achieving extraordinary results. In the first 9 months of 2023, deforestation in the Colombian region is collapsed of 70% compared to the same period of the previous year, when the trend was already decreasing compared to 2021 (-21%).The government of Gustavo Petro, which took office in June 2022, had made environmental protection one of the cruc...