Environment

Environment

Innovative solutions improve urban tree management

Three-dimensional root maps and AI platforms can guide pruning and ensure plant integrity

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Agricultural engineering

New raw materials diversifying ethanol production in Brazil

Brazil’s ethanol plants diversify production with corn, wheat, and sorghum

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Cooperation

Scientific expeditions head into little-explored areas of the Amazon

Projects funded by Amazon+10 initiative seek to broaden understanding of social and biological diversity

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Interview

Ghanaian climatologist says poor countries need financial and technological support to tackle global warming

Nana Klutse visited Brazil in September and discussed the impacts of climate change already experienced by various nations, particularly in Africa

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Geography

How tourism affects climate change and vice versa

Although still little-studied in Brazil, the topic is beginning to attract the attention of researchers

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Ecology

Large trees consume and store more carbon

Throughout the Amazon basin, greenhouse gases are accelerating the growth of taller vegetation

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Interview

Ane Alencar: Climate change affects everyone

Geographer from Pará who specializes in forest fires says that environmental issues are not an ideology and need to be taken into account by everyone, regardless of their political beliefs

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Environment

In 30 years, COP has become the largest annual United Nations conference

Number of participants in the meeting has increased more than tenfold since the Berlin meeting in 1995

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Environment

What’s at stake in Belém

World leaders meet at COP30 in the Amazon to discuss how to reduce emissions, expand the use of clean energy, and secure funding for climate action

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Ecology

Fish reproducing in the Chicago River

Several fish species are reproducing again in the Chicago River, which was once heavily polluted

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Ecology

The strategies of an invader

Invasive European plant spreading across grasslands of southern Brazil

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Management

Calculator estimates methane emitted by intensive livestock farming

Calculator estimates methane emitted by intensive livestock farming

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Aeronautical engineering

Drones used to fight fires and monitor environmental conditions

University in São Paulo is working with companies to design drones capable of fighting forest fires and measuring greenhouse gas concentrations

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Environment

Over 85% of municipalities in Brazil have no climate change adaptation plan

Index calculates capacity to reduce the impacts of extreme events in more than 5,000 cities

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Atmospheric sciences

Deforestation is making the Amazon drier while global climate change is making it warmer

Deforestation is responsible for almost 75% of the decline in rainfall during the region's dry season

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