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Regulation, technology and science are all moving at once. Our team writes up what changes, as it happens.

Two journeys into the Amazon, one company built to listen

Carlos Nobre went to the Amazon as a young electronic engineer. Decades later, Diego Saez Gil arrived on a personal journey. The relationship that followed helped shape Pachama, and eventually KEA.

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BiodiversityAI & Sensors

Two revolutions are converging to change how we measure biodiversity

Frontier models and edge AI with global connectivity did not exist, in their current form, three years ago. Together they open a way of measuring nature that simply was not possible before.

No Net LossMining

No Net Loss in mining: the evidence behind the claim

A practical guide to IFC PS6, the mitigation hierarchy, baseline design, offsets and a biodiversity ledger that can survive scrutiny.

EUDRRegulation

EUDR in practice: from farm plot to defensible due diligence

A field-to-filing guide to scope, roles, geolocation, risk decisions and evidence that stands up to buyer and regulator scrutiny.

Data CentersWater Risk

Brazil data centers: water, biodiversity and the licensing path

A site-level guide to REDATA, water rights and environmental evidence in Brazil.

RegulationMarket Analysis

Nature reporting is becoming binding, and the market to handle it is still young

CSRD, EUDR and binding nature rules now sit alongside voluntary frameworks such as TNFD. Scope and timing vary, but companies and financiers increasingly need defensible nature evidence.

Amazon RiskBusiness Risk

Why the Amazon tipping point is now a balance-sheet question

Carlos Nobre's tipping-point research shows what a basin nearing its threshold risks for supply chains, mining and infrastructure, and the same body of science puts a real number on what keeping the forest standing is worth.

BOOK OF THE MONTH

What we're reading about the living world.

The Song of the Dodo

David Quammen

Quammen's 1996 classic traces island biogeography from Darwin and Wallace to the modern extinction crisis, built around a single lasting image: cut a Persian rug into a dozen pieces, and you don't get a dozen smaller rugs, you get fragments that unravel. It's the same logic behind why fragmenting a habitat costs more than the math of area alone predicts, the founding idea behind No Net Loss and corridor design.