Geography

Antonio Carlos de Moraes

Geography suffers a loss

Geographer was a professor at FFLCH-USP and scientific advisor to FAPESP

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GEOCHEMISTRY

The third bank of the river

Organic matter transported by the Amazon reaches the Caribbean

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Palmas

The deepest lake in Brazil

Doce River Valley region is the site of the deepest natural lake in Brazil

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HISTORY

More than just loot

European kingdoms supported attacks by privateers off the coast of Brazil

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Memory

On Firm Ground

“Priest-mathematicians” and their detailed maps of Brazil’s scrublands

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GEOLOGY

Echos of separation

Blocks of rock combined to form the margins of the South Atlantic

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embrapa

Mapped soils

Digital maps of Brazilian soils may contribute to conservation

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Sociology

Unstable Macrometropolis

3.8 million people are living in precarious favelas in São Paulo State

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Memory

Keepers of history

History institutes try to find their role in the 21st century

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Sentinel-1A

Environmental sentinel

ESA's satellite has sent its first images of the Earth’s surface

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miscegenation

Migrations stored in genes

Genetics correlates human migrations and historical events

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Memory

Ingenuity and art

Theodoro Sampaio's contributions to Brazil, from Salvador to São Paulo

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Zoology

Direct flight

Birds reveals connection between the Amazon and Atlantic forests

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Development

The Country side Economic Landscape

Road network intensified São Paulo’s countryside economic activity

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The Amazon

The new lands of the cities

Economists, architects and geographers want to help manage Pará’s cities

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Memory

The value of language

Analysis of place names helps tell the story of the Royal Road

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Paleontology

Nest of a “flamingrebe”

Fossilized nest support relationship between flamingos and grebes

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Development

The interior’s economic relief

Study maps industrial deconcentration in the State of São Paulo

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What is it?

What is it?

Geographic North and magnetic North

Best dissertation

Best dissertation in 2010

Best 2010 Ph.D work on urban rivers

Brazilian biomes

Controversial mammals

Study challenges origin of animals from cerrado and caatinga

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Fractals

Jagged coastlines

Physicists try to explain why coastlines vary so much

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Memory

Mapping the New World

Astronomers determined latitudes in the Amazon and wrote about the region

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Digital library

A mine of maps

Cartographic material reveals Portuguese colonial fantasies

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Tribute

Beyond geography

Sternberg dedicated his life to the relationship between man and nature

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Geophysics

The Earth molded by gravity

Accurate measurements deform the perfect sphere seen from space

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Geology

Islands in the Savannah

"Blotches" in the cerrado emerged in ancient riverbeds in the Amazon

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Geology

Where mountains were born

Microscopic cracks in crystals help reconstruct the history of the Bocaina

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Earth Science

The last piece of Gondwana

Ancient ocean that isolated the Amazon dried up 520 million years ago

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Carlos A. de F. Monteiro

Carlos Augusto de Figueiredo Monteiro: The literary geographer

One of the pioneers of climatology in Brazil uses Guimarães

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