Geography

Geoscience

Scars of a cataclysm in Central Brazil

Meteorite impact 250 million years ago caused earthquake and tsunami

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Biodiversity

The first global reptile map

An effort has mapped the global distribution of 10,064 reptile species

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Photolab

At the bottom of the Amazon

At the bottom of the Amazon

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ATLAS 

To take advantage of the Sun

Study indicates favorable areas for exploring solar energy in Brazil

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Biology

Study indicates that 4.6% of the world comprises protected areas for mammal conservation

4.6% of the world comprises protected areas for mammal conservation

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Oceanography

Sea levels along the Brazilian coast are expected to rise

Sea levels along the Brazilian coast are expected to rise

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geography

Private Earth-observing satellites come of age

Earth-observing satellites arouse interest among researchers

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URBAN GEOGRAPHY

A life within walls

Gated communities and shopping malls accentuate social and spatial separation

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Amazon

Age of the Amazon River estimated at 9 million years

A new study estimates that the river formed between 9.4 and 9 million years ago

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Zealandia

Zealandia, a new continent that is almost entirely submerged, proposed by geologists

A new continent that is almost entirely submerged, proposed by geologists

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GEOLOGY

The exposed depths of the Earth

Mapping helps to uncover origins of the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago

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MEMORY

The Empire’s river

Halfeld was the first to conduct a survey of the São Francisco River

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ZOOLOGY

Obama crosses the Atlantic

A flatworm named after a U.S. president is now spreading across Europe

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ASTRONOMY

Titan’s landscape

Methane creates canyons and lakes on the surface of Saturn's largest moon

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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Under the force of the Andes

Map subdivided the topographic relief of South America into 35 units

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Institution

Winning the West

Geography research is a centerpiece in Presidente Prudente

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map collection

Stanford offers map collection

Stanford University opened a map center to the public

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Cerrado

Agriculture dries out the Cerrado

The larger the area for agriculture, the smaller the rainfall volume

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Biogeography

When the ocean was forest

The Atlantic Forest may have occupied the continental shelf in the Ice Age

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Biodiversity

The white and black fungi of the Atacama

Yeasts in the Chilean desert exhibit resistance to ultraviolet radiation

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COVER

The roots of resistance

Tthe reasons for hostility towards current migratory flows in Brazil

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GEOLOGY

Echos of separation

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

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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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