Environment
Environment
Hope for the Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest covers 28% of the area it occupied before European colonization
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Environment
Mangroves store more carbon than the rainforest
In the Amazon, every hectare of mangrove contains twice as much carbon as the same area of inland forest
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Environment
Northern Hemisphere suffers from heatwave
Climate change is believed to have contributed to the recent heatwaves in Europe
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Biodiversity
The mysterious death of the baobabs
Between 2005 and 2017, researchers conducted an extensive survey of the largest known baobab species
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Nutrition
Rice loses nutrients as CO2 increases
Rice could become less nutritious over the coming decades if the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise
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Environment
The most intense drought since the 1980s
The drought that hit Northeast Brazil from 2012 to 2017 was the longest, largest, and most intense that the region has seen since 1980
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Photolab
Dispersal by water
Biologist José Sabino studies the role fish play in maintaining riparian forest ecosystems
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Video
New species of colorful fish stuns researchers
Discovery off the São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago is evidence of a unique and little known fauna
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AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Imported efficiency
Cars use less fuel with technologies fostered by the Inovar Auto program, nearly all of which are foreign