UC professor Tomasz Stepinski’s land-use map shows changing landscapes in North and South America. White indicates little or no change. Darker shades indicate the highest rate of change in each category. Forest loss was the most noticeable category in Central and South America. Graphic/Tomasz Stepinski/UC
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- Global Anti-Deforestation Efforts Aren't Enough to Tackle Forest Loss
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- Amazon deforestation threatens newly discovered fish species in Brazil
The study's authors said that ongoing deforestation in the region places these roughly inch-long fish, part of a group known colloquially as the South American darters, in imminent danger of ...
- Imminent Extinction: 2 Newly Discovered Species of Amazonian Fish Threatened By Deforestation
Both fish - commonly referred to as South American darters - could disappear if the Brazilian government does not take immediate action, say scientists.
- Two newly discovered species of Amazonian fish are facing extinction
Two species of Amazonian fish are facing extinction due to deforestation, even though they've only just been discovered. In a new study, scientists have described the two new fish – one with ...
- Amazon deforestation threatens newly discovered fish species in Brazil
Pastana and his co-authors, Willian Ohara with the Federal University of Rondônia and Priscila Camelier with the Federal University of Bahia, said that ongoing deforestation in the region places ...
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- Can we get rid of tipping? What’s the alternative?
Americans widely believe tipping is an effective tool for incentivizing and rewarding good service. But that’s not always the case. Researchers have found that 85% of ...
- Visa Foundation Commits $12 Million to a New Tipping Point Community Program Addressing Youth Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area
Directing resources that uplift and improve the lives of future generationsSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yesterday, Visa Foundation announced a $12 million grant to Tipping Point Community, a ...
- How deforestation is pushing the Amazon toward a tipping point
(Raphael Alves for The Washington Post) Every day, deforestation brings the Amazon closer to what scientists warn will be its death, when the loss of tree cover finally pushes it past the point of ...
- Tropical forests lost more than 27 million acres of tree cover in 2021, study shows
The research data said primary forest loss in Brazil has been "persistently ... is losing resilience and may be closer to a tipping point than previously thought, which would lead to "irreversible ...
- Crucial tropical forests were destroyed at a rate of 10 soccer fields a minute last year
That's more than three times the DRC, which lost the second-largest amount of forest. If Amazon reaches tipping point, climate goals 'blown out of the water' In Brazil, a major driver for ...
