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Forest industries in South American countries [PDF]

This paper analyzes the performance of forest industries in South American countries. Special attention is given to the relationships that exist between the evolution of forest industries and the exploitation of natural and planted forest as well as on ...
Bacha, Carlos
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Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Degradation in Yanomami Indigenous Lands, and Regulatory Failures

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos, Ana Claudia de Araujo Moxotó, Jurandir Moura Dutra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detected Shifts Towards Drought-Adaptive Strategies in the Amazon Forest Over the Last Four Decades. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
Barbosa M, Maia RA, Menor IO, Marimon Junior BH, Marimon BS, Fernandes GW, Malhi Y, Aguirre-Gutiérrez J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Small Mammals as Carriers/Hosts of Leptospira spp. in the Western Amazon Forest. [PDF]

Front Vet Sci, 2020
Medeiros LDS, Braga Domingos SC, Azevedo MIND, Peruquetti RC, de Albuquerque NF, D'Andrea PS, Botelho ALM, Crisóstomo CF, Vieira AS, Martins G, Teixeira BR, Carvalho-Costa FA, Lilenbaum W.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Measuring the initial impacts on deforestation of Mato Grosso's program for environmental control [PDF]

Although private forest use in Brazil has been regulated at least since the Forest Code of 1965, cumulative deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached 653,000 km2 by 2003 (INPE 2004). Much of this deforestation is illegal.
Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila, Chomitz, Kenneth M.   +1 more
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Mapping School Accessibility in Africa: High‐Resolution Spatial Analysis Uncovers Inequalities in Education Access

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a cornerstone of sustainable development, yet large disparities in access persist across and within countries—particularly in Africa, where millions remain underserved. Among several factors influencing educational participation, physical accessibility to schools (in terms of travel time) is not comprehensively understood ...
Diana Jaramillo‐Araujo, Jim W. Hall
wiley   +1 more source

Phosphorus and base cations drive contrasting root dynamics in a central Amazon forest. [PDF]

Plant Soil
Schmeisk-Rosa J, Andersen KM, Cordeiro AL, Moraes ACM, Salomão ACF, de Assis RL, Di Ponzio R, de Almeida RV, Martins MP, Cunha HFV, Martins NP, de Souza ST, Ribeiro GAA, Salim JA, Oblitas É, Coelho SD, Conceição AC, Portela BTT, Valverde-Barrantes OJ, Camargo JLC, Meir P, Rammig A, Hartley IP, Quesada CAN, Lugli LF.   +24 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Chemical and Genotypic Variations in Aniba rosiodora from the Brazilian Amazon Forest. [PDF]

Molecules, 2020
Amazonas DR, Oliveira C, Barata LES, Tepe EJ, Kato MJ, Mourão RHV, Yamaguchi LF.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change: Rethinking Justice, Responsibility, and Collective Obligation

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the most profound ethical and existential challenges of the 21st century. Beyond its physical, economic, and environmental consequences, it raises fundamental moral questions about justice, equity, responsibility, and the right to a livable planet.
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

East Amazon forest understory temperatures reached a record high in 2023-2024. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Hes G, Badouard V, Burban B, Cazal J, Courtois EA, Derroire G, Francoise L, Goret JY, Mirabel A, Naisso P, Ogée J, Proux L, Schloesing E, Schmitt S, Sellan G, Stahl C, Chave J.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source