Environment

Environment

Fuel-efficient only on long trips

Vertical take-off and landing aircraft could help reduce congestion and improve air quality in major cities

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Video

How to protect sharks

Research group tracks oceanic sharks and maps them onto fishing zones in order to propose conservation areas | 3'40"

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Environment

Life goes on

Environmental legislation helps reconnect Atlantic Forest fragments in agricultural regions across Brazil

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Global warming

Hotter and drier cities

Modeling indicates that temperatures will rise and rainfall will be halved in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Santos by the end of the century

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Interview

José Antonio Marengo Orsini: A time of uncertainty

Climatologist says that society can perceive climate change but has difficulty adopting adaptive measures

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video

Plastic pollution, in numbers and pictures

Since the mid-20th century, an estimated 8,9 billion tons of plastics have been produced worldwide

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Geography

Boundaries between the Amazon and the Cerrado

In the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso, Pará, Tocantins, and Goiás, some areas classified as Cerrado are, in fact, part of the Amazon

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Environment

Air quality weighs heavy on health in Europe

Nearly 800,000 people in Europe die every year as a result of air pollution

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Biodiversity

Number of large animals continues to fall

The number of large wild animals on the planet is decreasing as a result of various human activities,

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Environment

Ice loss in Antarctica increases sixfold in 40 years

A new tool has made it possible to more accurately calculate the thickness of the Antarctic ice sheets and the speed at which they are moving

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Energy

Turbine layout affects power generation

Researchers found that irregular spacing between turbines may optimize energy production

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Meteorology

From the earth to the sky

Researchers to use German aircraft to investigate how nanoparticles produce storms in the Amazon

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Global warming

Hotter and drier cities

Modeling indicates temperatures will rise and rainfall will be halved in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Santos by the end of the century

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Interview

José Antonio Marengo Orsini: A time of uncertainty

Climatologist says society can perceive climate change but has difficulty adopting adaptive measures

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Environment

Dutch court orders government to cut greenhouse gases

An appeals court in the Netherlands ruled that the government must accelerate its plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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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

Contamination beyond the mines

Areas of the Amazon flooded by dams may lead to an increase of the mercury levels in fish consumed by local residents

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URBANISM

The search for open spaces

Recent urban development has been marked by contradictions around the use of open areas

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ENVIRONMENT

Life goes on

Environmental legislation helps reconnect Atlantic Forest fragments in agricultural regions across Brazil

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Ecology

Monkeys under threat

Around 60% of primate species may disappear by the end of the century, study finds

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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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ENVIRONMENT

Energy to change

Conference discusses the role of biofuels in fighting global warming

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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

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Environment

Reducing household pollution

A review article argues in favor of replacing household stoves that run on biofuel with ones that use liquefied petroleum gas

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