Amazon Forest Store
Welcome to the Amazon Forest Store - the online store of the Center for Amazon Community Ecology. We work with hundreds of native and campesino artisans from the Peruvian Amazon to produce and sell innovative fair trade handicrafts.
About our store - Amazon Ecology
Welcome to the fair trade Amazon Forest Store - the online store of the non-profit Center for Amazon Community Ecology (CACE). We sell innovative handicrafts made by native and campesino artisans from the Amazon region. Your purchase helps protect its trees and rivers by giving artisans a way to support their familie
Why Is the Amazon So Important for Climate Change?
Feb 20, 2023 · “The Amazon today, even with all the deforestation, stores more than 150 billion [metric] tons of carbon,” says Carlos Nobre, an Earth systems scientist at the University of São Paulo in Brazil...
Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system | Nature
Feb 14, 2024 · The Amazon forest holds more than 10% of Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity, stores an amount of carbon equivalent to 15–20 years of global CO 2 emissions (150–200 Pg C), and has a net cooling ...
Climate change: Amazon regions emit more carbon than they absorb - BBC
Deforestation and climate change are altering the Amazon rainforest's ability to soak up carbon, according to a new study. Significant parts of the world's largest tropical forest have...
Amazon Forest | Fighting Deforestation - Amazon Conservation Association
The Amazon produces 20% of the oxygen we breathe; The Amazon stores 80-120 billion tons of carbon, stabilizing our planet’s climate; 1/5 of the world’s fresh water is found in the Amazon basin. Forests provide direct livelihoods to millions of people living in and around them.
Amazon rainforest stores carbon for the world, but this carbon …
Aug 13, 2024 · The U.S. nonprofit Amazon Conservation used satellite data provided by the Planet company to calculate how much climate-changing carbon the Amazon forest stores. An analysis of the data concluded that with deforestation there’s a danger the Amazon could start contributing more carbon than it absorbs from the atmosphere.
Deforestation, warming flip part of Amazon forest from carbon …
Jul 14, 2021 · But deforestation and global warming over the last 40 years have affected rainfall and temperature with potential impacts for the Amazon’s ability to store carbon. Conversion of rainforest to agriculture has caused a 17 percent decrease in forest extent in the Amazon, which stretches over an area almost as large as the continental U.S..
The Amazon in crisis: Forest loss threatens the region and the …
Nov 8, 2022 · The Amazon is in crisis as forests are threatened by deforestation, fires, and degradation; surface water has been lost; and rivers are increasingly disconnected and polluted. This immense pressure—if not slowed or stopped—will irreversibly damage the Amazon and the overall planet in the very near future.
Amazon rainforest - Greenpeace UK
The Amazon rainforest stores 90–140 billion metric tonnes of carbon, making it the world’s largest land carbon ‘sink’. As climate change is caused by excess carbon emissions from industry, these carbon stores or ‘sinks’ help keep the climate stable.