Our new paper @GlobalChangeBio
outlines 5 key aspects for #research on Amazonian fires, especially for those using remote sensing and broad climate indexes – a thread.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… @GlobalChangeBio 1 - Amazonian #vegetation is not only determined by climate. As such, Koppen-Geiger climate zones can lead to wrong assumptions, such as characterizing all the southern part of the basin as savannas instead of forests.

BREAKING: June 2020 was the worst June on record for Amazonian deforestation - 1034 km2 of #forests were lost. Bolsonaro has been in office for 18 months, during 9 of which we have seen record deforestation rates. President #Bolsonaro took office in January 2019. Since then these are the months with record deforestation:
May 2019 (then surpassed by May 2020)
July 2019
Aug 2019
Set 2019
Nov 2019
Jan 2020
Feb 2020
June 2020

Data from the Brazilian Space Agency: terrabrasilis.dpi.inpe.br/app/dashboard/…

Amazonian and African *intact* forests are absorbing less carbon, than they sued to, thus contributing less to mitigate #ClimateChange Here goes a few thoughts on the new paper @nature
nature.com/articles/s4158… @nature First and foremost, it is commendable the vast amount of data used in this paper. Data that was sampled in extreme #fieldwork conditions by dozens of people. Without these,such robust analyses would never be possible. It takes a lot of time, different grants and plenty dedication

A prisão dos brigadistas voluntários de #AlterdoChao e o ataque ao @saudealegria não foi por acaso. Ela faz parte de uma estratégia do governo de impôr sua narrativa desprezando a verdade sobre o #fogo na #Amazônia
Segue o fio: Na sexta dia 15/11 soltamos um artigo na @GlobalChangeBio mostrando como o enorme aumento das taxas de #desmatamento foi a causa por trás dos grandes incêndios vistos na Amazônia brasileira em agosto:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…