Albert, James S. Carnaval, Ana C. Flantua, Suzette G. A. Lohmann, Lúcia G. Ribas, Camila C. Riff, Douglas Carrillo, Juan D. Fan, Ying Figueiredo, Jorge J.P. Guayasamin, Juan M. Hoorn, Carina Melo, Gustavo H. de Nascimento, Nathália Quesada, Carlos A. Ulloa Ulloa, Carmen Val, Pedro Arieira, Julia Encalada, Andrea C. Nobre, Carlos A. 2023-01-27 Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity reserves and globally important ecosystem services. The most substantial threats come from regional deforestation due to export market demands, and global climate change. The Amazon is currently perched to transition rapidly from a largely forested to a non-forested landscape. These changes are happening much too rapidly for Amazonian species, peoples, and ecosystems to respond adaptively. Policies to prevent the worst outcomes are known and must be enacted immediately. We now need political will and leadership to act on this information. To fail the Amazon is to fail the biosphere, and we to fail to act at our peril. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/324730 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/324730/files/Albert et al. 2023 Science.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1126/science.abo5003 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Science AAAS. - New York : American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2023. - 2023, no. 379 Amazonia Conservation Biodiversity Climate change Humans info:eu-repo/classification/udc/57 Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501