News
Project updates, publications, and opportunities
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Amazon Soil Carbon â The Missing Credit
Amazon Soil Carbon: Policy Brief Summary The conversion of forest to agriculture in the Amazon triggers a “deforestation…
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âUnprecedentedâ wildfires in tropical peatlands during 20th century
A new study reveals an unprecedented increase in wildfires in tropical peatlands during the 20th century. Peatlands store vast quantities of carbon below the Earthâs surface â more…
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From Sample to Data: The Journey Inside the Laboratory
After thousands of kilometres of fieldwork across the Amazon, around two thousand soil samples have passed through the…
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On the Road: Thousands of Kilometres in Service of Amazon Wildfire Science
The Amazon PyroCarbon project has covered thousands of kilometres across Mato Grosso, RondĂŽnia, Amazonas, Acre, and ParĂĄ over…
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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. 2021/00976-4 – UKRI –…
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PhD Scholarship: Soil carbon dynamics following Amazon forest wildfires (2026 entry)
A fully-funded PhD scholarship is available at the University of Exeter: Soil carbon dynamics following Amazon forest wildfires…
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PhD Scholarship: Integrating sensing, modelling and data analytics to understand forest microclimate dynamics under fire, degradation and climate change in Amazonia
A fully-funded PhD scholarship is available at the University of Exeter: Integrating sensing, modelling and data analytics to…
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Fieldwork Investigates Forest Carbon, Structure, and Composition on Sandy Soils in Southern Amazonia
Amazonian rainforests play an important global role in maintaining biodiversity, regulating climate, generating rainfall, and storing carbon. Yet,…
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Integrating Pyrogenic Carbon into JULES: Updates from the Amazon and Conferences
By Oscar Kennedy-Blundell | Postdoctoral Research Associate I am currently working as a postdoctoral research associate focusing on…
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High-elevation tropical forest soils in Colombian Andes store nine times more pyrogenic carbon than Amazonian forests
The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than…
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Thirty Tree Species Dominate the World’s Most Tree-Diverse Savanna
A new study published in Communications Biology (Nature Portfolio) found a surprising pattern in the world’s largest and…
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Soil carbon loss twice as severe with conversion to agriculture than with repeated wildfire in Amazonian forests
A new study shows the significant impact of recurring fires and agricultural conversion on soil carbon storage in…
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Changes in soil carbon following fire in forests regrowing on abandoned pastures in Central Amazonia
The Amazon rainforest, an important carbon sink, faces increasing threats from deforestation and wildfires. But what happens to…
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Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
Our new study published in the journal Science reveals a concerning trend, that tropical forests across the Americas…
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Fires reshaping southern Amazonian forests: new research highlights degradation and carbon loss
We recently published a paper led by PhD student Maurivan Barros Pereira (State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT)),…
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Doctorate “Sandwich” Program Abroad (PDSE) Scholarship – Feldpausch Research Group
Funding is available for Brazilian students with the Feldpausch Research Group at the University of Exeter through the…
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Field campaign advances fire-impact research in soils of the central Amazon
In NovemberâDecember 2024, a seven-member Amazon PyroCarbon Project team established 22 soil plots across contrasting fire histories in…
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New artwork highlights forests damaged by deforestation and wildfire
Artwork developed by our Amazon Past Fire and Amazon PyroCarbon Projects, funded by UK NERC and ODA grants,…
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Into the burned forests of Acre: Amazon PyroCarbon Project fieldwork 2024
Between 19 and 30 April 2024, the Amazon PyroCarbon Project team travelled to Acre, Brazil, to revisit permanent…
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Extreme El Niño weather saw South Americaâs forest carbon sink switch off
Tropical forests in South America lose their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere when conditions become exceptionally…
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People and the Amazon: new display by the Univ of Exeter and Eden Project
Prof Ted Feldpausch and Prof Jose Iriarte developed a new display with the Eden Project to communicate to…
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Drought will reduce the rainforestâs ability to remove carbon from the environment
In a major collaboration involving 80 scientists from Europe and South America, our research identified the regions of…
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Workshop at UFAC-Brazil teaches student teachers in training about wildfire in the Amazon
A project in partnership between the University of Exeter and UFAC-Brazil held the 2nd Workshop: Exchange of Knowledge…
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Workshop Exchange of Knowledge and Teaching on Burning in the Amazon, Confresa, MT-Brazil (video)
The Municipal Secretary of Education of Confresa offered the event âI Workshop Exchange of Knowledge and Teaching on…
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Ancient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistance
In our recent paper, âAncient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistanceâ published in Frontiers in Forests and Global…
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Tropical Forest Research in Geography at the University of Exeter (video)
Researchers at the University of Exeter describe some of the globally important research that they lead on tropical…
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Fully funded PhD opportunity: Soil carbon dynamics following Amazon Forest fires: quantifying the role of fire severity and charcoal, NERC GW4+ DTP PhD
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding from the NERC Great Western…
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Amazon PyroCarbon Project Officially Launched!
We are pleased to announce the start of the Amazon PyroCarbon project. This major international collaboration, involving researchers…