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Environment

Crop science

Soil genetics

New mineral mapping technique can help farmers save on farm inputs and minimize environmental impacts

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Botany

Tropical trees die sooner

Tropical species have average lifespans of 186 years, while temperate species live for an average 322 years, a study on 438 tree species shows

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COVID-19

Vaccines and sharks

A compound extracted from the livers of sharks is used in five coronavirus vaccine candidates

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Anthropogenic mass

The weight of human production

Asphalt and concrete make up most of the mass produced by humans

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Retrospect

The roots of environmentalism

Colonial period exploitation, and the counterculture movement influenced the course of research and environmental defense in Brazil

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Environment

The scale of the thaw in Greenland

Greenland's three largest glaciers lost nearly 2.9 trillion tons of ice between 1880 and 2012

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COVER

Shaped by floods and fires

Water, and to a lesser extent, fire, influence flora distribution and diversity in the Pantanal

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COVER

The Pantanal pleads for rain

Record fires destroy a quarter of the world’s largest floodplain and worsen the impacts of a prolonged drought

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Energy

Electric cars, the economy, and health

Replacing 25% of American cars with electric vehicles would save the country US$17 billion per year

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Environment

Record fires in the Pantanal in 2020

There were 2,534 wildfires in the Pantanal in the first half of 2020

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Environment

Microplastics in the heart of the jungle

Researchers found microplastics in the sediment of the Negro, Solimões, and Amazonas rivers

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Environment

The return of deforestation

Official INPE figure says 10,129 km2 of the Amazon were deforested in 2019, the most since 2008

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INTERVIEW

Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão: The physicist who would not bend

Almost a year after being dismissed, the former director of INPE continues to warn that deforestation is out of control in the Amazon

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Biodiversity

At risk of disappearing

Hundreds of species of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals are at risk of disappearing in the next two decades as a result of environmental degradation caused by humans

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Environment

Biomes under attack

97% of the 12,000 square kilometers of land deforested in Brazil last year was in the Amazon and the Cerrado

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