Research story | 2024-06-13

Redirecting investments can pave the way for a just and resilient Amazon

The Amazon Basin stands at a critical juncture: Pressing environmental challenges on one hand, with immense potential for transformative change on the other. A new report illuminates how to foster resilience across the region.

Research news | 2024-01-12

More rain, fewer droughts — rainfall effects from targeted forestation can reduce climate change

By prioritizing targeted increases in rainfall, forestation programs may not only mitigate global climate change itself but also reduce its concrete negative effects such as droughts, new study finds

Research news | 2022-10-14

In Colombia, a new war rages on people and nature

Six years after the Colombian peace agreement, crucial ecosystems and local communities are still caught in the crossfire

Research news | 2022-08-05

Not only clear-cuts, but even forest degradation drives CO2 emissions

Further degradation of the Amazon rainforest can lead to enormous C02 emissions in the upcoming decades, unless it is halted soon, new study finds

Research news | 2022-02-22

Amid drought, trees’ ability to store water defines their resilience

Trees in the rainforest can increase their resilience to drought by improving the capacity of their roots to store moisture

Research news | 2020-10-05

As emissions grow, more parts of the Amazon are likely to dry out

A larger part of the Amazon rainforest could cross a tipping point where it could become a savanna-type ecosystem than previously thought

Research news | 2020-04-02

Amazon deforestation leads to increasingly severe dry seasons

Drier dry seasons combined with more degraded forests means regions can easily transform to pasture land, researchers warn

Research news | 2019-09-09

Eroding the resilience of tropical forests

Understanding the relationships between forest resilience and soil erosion in tropical forests affected by human and natural disturbances

Research news | 2019-02-15

Should we worry about the Brazilian Amazon?

Centre workshop presents multiple perspectives and discusses current concerns about the region. Watch videos here

Research news | 2018-11-07

Financial giants can have a pivotal role for climate stability

A handful of international investors linked to economic activities may influence the stability of some of the world’s largest forests and hence the global climate

Research news | 2018-10-30

Nature’s steep decline

Centre contributes to new WWF report which reveals staggering extent of human impact on planet

Research news | 2018-02-14

A different kind of fire

Forest fires during drought periods rather than deforestation fires increasingly dominate Amazonian carbon emissions

Research news | 2017-03-13

Breaking a vicious cycle

Researchers identify connections between extreme drought and self-amplified forest loss. Forest diversity reduces risk of such loss

Research news | 2016-03-23

The plants that regulate the rain

Why landscapes that regulate downwind rainfall are key producers of ecosystem services

Research news | 2015-03-19

Global icons, local threats

Think global, act local or risk losing the world’s iconic natural treasures, new study in Science argues