Environment

Botany

An unusual bromeliad

New species of bromeliad with hairy leaves challenges perception of these plants

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Climate change

Waiting for even more dire effects

Severe droughts in the Amazon could also cause sudden tree mortality

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Biodiversity

Thousands of chicks die in Antarctica

Climate change kills thousands of emperor penguin chicks in Antarctica

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Agronomy

Intense heat, smaller harvests

Soybean yield has fallen by 6% for every 1 °C increase in temperature since the 1980s

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Public health

Higher mortality in metropolises

Heatwaves linked to almost 50,000 deaths in Brazilian metropolises between 2000 and 2018

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PHOTOLAB

Above the forest

AmazonFACE towers will monitor how the Amazon rainforest responds to rising CO2 levels

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Obituary

Ice and fire

Environmental engineer Alberto Setzer led Brazil’s Antarctic meteorology project and INPE’s fire monitoring program

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ENERGY

The challenge of recycling lithium batteries

Research groups in Brazil work on new techniques to separate and reuse the metals contained in these energy-storage modules

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ENVIRONMENT

The impacts of microplastics on human health

Studies using different cell cultures show that microplastics can cause structural and inflammatory lesions

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ENVIRONMENT

Microplastics found along the Brazilian coastline

The Santos estuary is one of the locations that suffers most from microplastic waste, which has been found on the beach, in the water, and at the bottom of the sea, from Pará to Rio Grande do Sul

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INTERVIEW

Pedro Leite da Silva Dias & Maria Assunção Faus: A good time for research

Married meteorologists discuss how studies on the atmosphere in the Amazon have strengthened Brazilian climate science and warn about the challenges ahead

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GEOLOGY

Rain, erosion, and dams have shaped the São Francisco river over the last 90,000 years

Previously winding and shallow, the river has straightened and deepened

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Cover

Temperature variations may cause five million deaths per year

The number is equivalent to 9.5% of all global deaths, with 75% of fatal victims living in Asia and Africa

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Cover

Urban heat islands make even small and midsized towns warmer

Temperatures can vary by as much as 10 degrees Celsius between areas covered by concrete and neighborhoods with more vegetation

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July was the hottest month in recent history and broke temperature records

Global warming shows no signs of letting up, causing forest fires in the Northern Hemisphere’s summer and a mild winter below the Equator

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