Author: Ted Feldpausch
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Burned Amazonian forests stay altered for at least 40 years, new lidar study shows
New spaceborne-lidar work presented at ATBC 2026 shows Amazonian forests in Acre remain measurably shorter, simpler and lower in biomass for at least 40 years after wildfire, recovering to only about 90% of unburned forest.
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MSc completed: Lorena de Souza Fleury traces a 25-year legacy of soil fertilisation in Amazonian secondary forests
Lorena de Souza Fleury’s MSc at INPA establishes a carbon baseline in Amazonian secondary forests before conversion to farmland, work that will feed into the new Amazon Forest to Field project.
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Amazon Soil Carbon — The Missing Credit
Amazon Soil Carbon: Policy Brief Summary The conversion of forest to agriculture in the Amazon triggers a “deforestation multiplier”: the ecosystem loses carbon equivalent to about 115% (1.15×) of the original forest’s aboveground biomass. Current carbon-credit standards such as Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) focus on standing timber, yet new evidence highlights the significant, unprotected…
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Post-doc opportunity with the Amazon PyroCarbon Project
Pyrogenic Carbon in the Amazon: quantifying soil carbon responses to the effect of fire. Project title: Determination of isotopic variations and quantification of soil organic carbon as a function of fire on a temporal and landscape scale in the Amazon 2021/00976-4 – UKRI – NERC – Research Project – Thematic Plinio Barbosa de Camargo (CENA/USP)…
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Amazon Forest to Field Project Officially Launched!
We are pleased to announce the start of the Amazon Forest to Field Project. This major international collaboration, involving researchers from the UK, Brazil,and Australia, will seek to answer one of the biggest open questions in climate science: what happens to the vast stores of carbon in Amazonian soils following forest conversion to other land…