The world has watched, gripped by climate anxiety, the growing frequency and intensity of natural disasters as some of the effects of global warming. The planet's biological clock seems to be ticking faster as years go by. Back in 2015, when the Paris Agreement recommended that countries strive to limit global average temperature to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels by 2100, the challenge looked achievable for the international community. Now, the global rush for climate action grows in urgency as recent projections show that, even in optimistic scenarios, we may reach the 2ºC mark by the end of the century — unless immediate measures are taken.
Amid collective efforts to preserve natural resources, some places have stayed in the spotlight as symbols of Earth's biological treasures. The Amazon is one of these places: an enormous carbon sink with a global climate regulation power, sprawling across more than 6.7 million square kilometers. It is the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest in the world and is also home to millions of species — most yet to be discovered and cataloged.
