Amazon deforestation threatens newly discovered fish species in Brazil
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History researcher Murilo Pastana and his colleagues have discovered and described two new species of ...
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Deforestation of Indigenous lands could prevent Brazil from achieving climate change mitigation targets
Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon are under constant pressure, and deforestation of these areas has accelerated in recent years. ...
How cattle ranchers in Brazil could help reduce carbon emissions
Providing customized training to Brazilian ranchers can not only help keep carbon in the ground, but improve their livelihoods and ...
Reopening schools in brazil during pandemic
What The Study Did: In this cross-sectional study of 643 Brazilian municipalities including 18,761 schools, on average, there was no ...
Cancer treatment: a berry from Brazil helps out
Castalagin, a polyphenol from the Amazonian fruit camu-camu, increases the efficacy of immunotherapy in mice by modifying their microbiome, Canadian ...
Model developed in Brazil can predict conviction of lawmakers for corruption
Birds of a feather flock together. The popular saying applies to politics and to the computational analysis of complex networks ...
Yeast cells cause embedded objects to rise via the microbial Brazil nut effect
A phenomenon where microbe-generated gas bubbles create granular fluctuations at the wet sandy floors of rivers, oceans, and lakes has ...
Asphyxia-associated neonatal mortality found to cluster in poorer parts of São Paulo state (Brazil)
Researchers who analyzed data for São Paulo state, Brazil, found the highest rates of newborn mortality from asphyxia in cities ...
Increased temperatures contributed to more than 200,000 cases of kidney disease in 15 years in Brazil alone, world’s largest study finds
Today the world’s largest study of the impact of temperature changes and kidney disease reveals that 7.4 per cent of ...
Electoral cycles influence destruction of Atlantic Rainforest areas in South and Southeast Brazil
A study conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil, and reported in an article published in the journal Conservation Letters, ...