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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Ecology

Bird feathers contain traces of pesticides

Bird feather flaws caused by pesticides

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Environment

AI to recover climate data

Artificial intelligence helps recover climate records beyond the reach of large-scale analyses

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Climatology

Heat spoils the mood

Rising temperatures could reduce global well-being by the end of the century

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Epidemiology

Mosquitoes spreading diseases across Europe

Warming climate helps mosquitoes spread infectious diseases across Europe

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Environment

Predicting landslides

Data on climate, soil, and topography help predict landslides

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Geosciences

Rivers alter landscapes by incorporating parts of other rivers

Rivers alter landscapes by incorporating parts of other rivers

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Health

Flu cases rise with wildfires

Study associates wildfires with increase in flu cases

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Geography

Freshwater scarce in the Northern Hemisphere

Earth’s continents have suffered an unprecedented loss of freshwater since 2002

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Chemical engineering

New technique for recycling lithium-ion batteries

Pilot plant will test unique process for recovering chemicals from the main types of devices on the market

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Green energy

Brazilian scientists transform CO2 into fuel for ships, cars, and trucks

Ongoing projects seek to establish industrial production of renewable methanol, gasoline, and diesel

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Botany

Trees that protect other trees

Capororoca and pixirica in the Atlantic Forest, and catingueira and faveleiro in the Caatinga, create favorable environments for dozens of other species

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Environment

The unwanted effects of sunscreen

Compound used in sunscreen and other cosmetics hinders plastic degradation

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Environment

Second-hand clothes pollute the air and rivers in Africa

Huge volumes of used clothing sent to Africa are polluting rivers

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Climate change

Triple suffocation in the ocean

Compound extreme events consisting of heatwaves, high acidification, and chlorophyll scarcity have become frequent in the South Atlantic since 2009

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Atmospheric chemistry

From the forest to the air

Gas emitted by trees in Amazonia increases the production of condensation nuclei, the origin of clouds, by 100 times

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