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Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Approach to Map Deforestation in Amazon Rainforest
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2020We address the task of mapping deforested areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Accurate maps are an important tool for informing effective deforestation containment policies.
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Brazilian policy and agribusiness damage the Amazon rainforest
, 2020Since his inauguration on January 1, 2019, Jair Bolsonaro, a declared right-wing candidate nicknamed “Tropical Trump,” has introduced measures to reduce environmental restrictions on livestock farming, the main greenhouse gas (GHG) producing sector in ...
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Environmental impacts of the life cycle of alluvial gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.
Science of the Total Environment, 2019Alluvial gold mining activities in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest are responsible for mercury emissions and deforestation. To understand related environmental impacts, specifically toxicity and climate change, this study uses Life Cycle Assessment ...
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AMAZON RAINFOREST AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
Journal of Southwest Jiaotong UniversityThis paper aims to analyze the effect of climate change on the principle of state sovereignty. This study examines the case of the Amazon rainforest, the ‘lungs’ of the earth, which has 60% of its land inside Brazil’s territory and provides a natural ecosystem that helps stabilize the world’s climate.
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Amazon rainforest faces existential climate risk
Emerald Expert BriefingsSignificance The situation, which began in northern regions, quickly spread, affecting the entire basin by September. Since January, large areas of the basin have been in a state of ‘exceptional’ meteorological and agricultural drought -- a condition that is not unprecedented, but which has become more common in recent ...
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Policy in Brazil (2016–2019) threaten conservation of the Amazon rainforest
Environmental Science and Policy, 2019This article aims to analyze the influence of recent Brazilian political change demonstrating like the measures taken by former President Meichel Temer and those promised in presidential campaign by the current president Jair Bolsonaro threaten on the ...
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How Climate Change Affects the Amazon Rainforest
Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings, 2018Climate change has a drastic impact on the structure and behavior of the amazon. Short-term effects of climate change are gradually creating more long-term effects that can be witnessed globally. Due to increased temperature, decreased precipitation and increased greenhouse gases, the amazon faces hazardous events such as droughts, forest fires, floods
Tegan McWhirter, Lisa Leung
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Amazon rainforest to get a growth check
Science, 2016Ambitious experiment will test whether rising CO 2 will boost the tropical carbon sink.
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Cattle ranching in the Amazon rainforest
2003Depuis les années 1960, le troupeau bovin du bassin amazonien est passé de 5 millions à plus de 70 à 80 millions de têtes. Près de 15% de la forêt amazonienne a été remplacée et près de 80% des superficies déboisées ont été couvertes de pâturages (environ 900 000 km').
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The Amazon Rainforest: A green criminological perspective
2013This chapter presents results from a project undertaken between 2010 and 2016, entitled ‘Lands and Rights in Troubled Water’ (or ‘LAR’), funded by the Dutch NWO-WOTRO (Science for Global Development) Programme; the project focussed on understanding and mitigating conflicts over natural resources in Colombia and Brazil.
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