Environment
Award
Responsibility and diplomacy in science
Two Brazilians—physicist Ricardo Galvão and climatologist Carlos Nobre—were honored on February 10 at the annual meeting of the AAAS
By Redação
Environment
Drones map Brazilian forests
Unmanned aerial vehicles are being used to quickly and efficiently monitor rainforests in great detail
By Tiago Jokura
COVID-19
Lockdown and the city air
The strict social distancing measures adopted by governments to try to contain the spread of the pandemic have improved air quality in some of the world's major cities
By Redação
Biodiversity
Damage beyond deforestation
Fragments of Atlantic Forest have already lost 23–42% of their biodiversity and forest carbon stocks
By Redação
Environment
Lakes to lose ice cover by 2100
Some 5,700 lakes in the northern hemisphere are expected to lose their ice cover during the winter by the end of the century
By Redação
Video
How drones chart forest biodiversity
Unmanned aerial vehicles are used to monitor tropical forests in a speedy, efficient and detail-rich manner | 4'34
By Redação
Crop science
Soil genetics
New mineral mapping technique can help farmers save on farm inputs and minimize environmental impacts
COVID-19
Vaccines and sharks
A compound extracted from the livers of sharks is used in five coronavirus vaccine candidates
By Redação
Anthropogenic mass
The weight of human production
Asphalt and concrete make up most of the mass produced by humans
By Redação
Environment
The scale of the thaw in Greenland
Greenland's three largest glaciers lost nearly 2.9 trillion tons of ice between 1880 and 2012
By Redação
Energy
Electric cars, the economy, and health
Replacing 25% of American cars with electric vehicles would save the country US$17 billion per year
By Redação
Environment
Record fires in the Pantanal in 2020
There were 2,534 wildfires in the Pantanal in the first half of 2020
By Redação
Environment
Microplastics in the heart of the jungle
Researchers found microplastics in the sediment of the Negro, Solimões, and Amazonas rivers
By Redação
Biodiversity
At risk of disappearing
Hundreds of species of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals are at risk of disappearing in the next two decades as a result of environmental degradation caused by humans
By Redação
Covid-19
Self-isolation and city air
Self-isolation measures have cleared city streets, leading to a decrease in air pollution
By Redação
Video
How science helps environmental conservation
Biota-Fapesp program reaches its 20th anniversary lending scientific bases to the creation of nature preservation areas and the search for sustainable development in São Paulo state
By Redação
Atmospheric sciences
Pizza soot
Pizzerias in São Paulo produce the equivalent of 9% of the fine particulate matter emitted by vehicles in the city’s Metropolitan Region