Albert, James S.Carnaval, Ana Carolina Oliveira de QueirozFlantua, Suzette G. A.Lohmann, Lúcia GarcezRibas, Camila CheremGonçalves, Douglas RiffCarrillo, Juan D.Fan, YingFigueiredo, Jorge de Jesus Picanço deGuayasamin, Juan ManuelHoorn, CarinaMelo, Gustavo Henrique Coelho deNascimento, Nathália de OliveiraNobre Quesada, Carlos AlbertoUlloa, Carmen UlloaVal, Pedro Fonseca de Almeida eArieira, JuliaEncalada Romero, Andrea CarolinaNobre, Carlos Afonso2023-08-222023-08-222023ALBERT, J. S. et al. Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon. Science, v. 379, n. 6630, jan. 2023. Disponível em: <https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.abo5003>. Acesso em: 15 mar. 2023.036-8075http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/jspui/handle/123456789/17329Amazonian 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, because of export market demands, and global climate change. The Amazon is currently perched to transition rapidly from a largely forested to a nonforested 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 fail to act at our peril.en-USrestritoArtigo publicado em periodicohttps://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo5003