Environment
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What is El Niño?
Animation explains why warming of surface waters in the Pacific Ocean can cause increasingly frequent extreme events | 7'16
By Redação
Environment
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Signs of the next El Niño
The 2023 El Niño could be one of the most intense of the last three decades
By Redação
Pollution
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Plastic-eating microbes
Bacteria and fungi from icy areas degrade plastics at room temperature
By Redação
Ecology
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Coastal vegetation, carbon sponges
Coastal ecosystems with vegetation are essential for storing organic carbon
By Redação
Environment
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Another plan to stop deforestation in the Amazon
Federal government relaunches plan to achieve zero deforestation in the north of Brazil by 2030
By Redação
PHOTOLAB
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Carnival at sea is no party
Glitter particles that end up in the sea and lakes have damaging impacts
By Redação
photolab
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Give me shelter
Transparent, stripy shrimp seen on an endangered Condylactis gigantea anemone
By Redação
Environment
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New tools to track forest products
In efforts to curb deforestation in the Amazon, environmental agencies, universities, and NGOs are developing technologies to trace the origins of wood
By Tiago Jokura