Noticiero
Thursday, January 27 2022
Source: MercoPress Brazil's National Council of Secretaries of Health (Conass) Wednesday reported that intensive care units (ICUs) at eight States were full up to over 80% of their capacity with...
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Libros
Tuesday, January 11 2022
By Carlo Patti Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. The first comprehensive and definitive history of Brazil's decision to give up the nuclear weapon option. Why do countries capable of...
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Noticiero
Thursday, January 6 2022
Source: Science Magazine SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Strapped for cash after 3 years of austerity budgets, Brazilian scientists are bracing for an even harsher year ahead. The federal government is planning to...
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Noticiero
Thursday, January 6 2022
Source: Nature A proposal to shrink Brazil’s federal science budget by more than 90% has now been approved by our president. The immediate future of all ongoing projects, including thousands of...
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Noticiero
Thursday, January 6 2022
Fuente: UOL O Brasil é o país com o maior número de universidades que compõem a edição 2021 do ranking latino-americano do Times Higher Education (THE), um dos principais indicadores de educação...
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Noticiero
Tuesday, December 28 2021
Source: MercoPress Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Monday insisted his 11-year-old daughter will not be taking any COVID-19 vaccine. “I hope there is no interference by the law, I hope so, because...
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Ambiente
Thursday, February 27 2020
Source: The RisingOvershooting an Amazon rainforest-to-savanna tipping point would be “catastrophic” to Brazil’s economic powerhouses, experts have said — with especially far-reaching impacts for the...
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Noticiero
Friday, February 21 2020
Fuente: SciDev Un estudio reveló que una gran población de conejos silvestres y de lagartijas aumentaría la cantidad de vinchucas —el insecto que transmite el Mal de Chagas—, y por ende incrementa...
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Noticiero
Tuesday, January 14 2020
Source: MercoPressWith the establishment of the new airlink to Brazil, the Stanley hospital has issued a reminder to travellers from the Falkland Islands to ensure they are vaccinated against yellow...
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Noticiero
Tuesday, January 14 2020
Source: Science MagazineSÃO PAULO—Brazil will officially open its new scientific outpost in Antarctica this week, 8 years after a fire destroyed its original base there. The new, $ 100 million station...
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Libros
Thursday, December 5 2019
Source: Society for the Social History of MedicineHugh Cagle, Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–1700 , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix + ...
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Noticiero
Thursday, December 5 2019
Fuente: Minha OperadoraSegundo pesquisa da Viavi Solutions, o Brasil é o único país da América Latina que conta com internet com velocidade de gigabit. No relatório, a operadora TIM, por meio do seu...
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Ambiente
Monday, December 2 2019
Source: Science MagazineDevelopment, most of it illegal, destroyed more than 9700 square kilometers of Brazilian Amazon rainforest in the year ending in July, according to a government estimate...
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Noticiero
Wednesday, November 13 2019
Source: Science MagazineMarine scientists in Brazil are closely monitoring the incursion of a mysterious oil spill into the largest biodiversity hot spot in the South Atlantic Ocean. The region, known...
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Derechos humanos
Sunday, October 6 2019
Fuente: SciDev De los 300 asesinatos ocurridos en Brasil desde 2009 cuyas víctimas defensores de la Amazonia, solo 14 fueron llevados a juicio, según un reporte de la ONG Human Rights Watch (HRW).La...
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Noticiero
Tuesday, October 1 2019
Source: MercoPressBrazilian scientists are racing against time to finish building a particle accelerator the size of the Maracana football stadium before government funds run out or it is superseded...
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Noticiero
Monday, September 23 2019
Source: Science MagazineCHIAPAS STATE IN MEXICO—About 7 hours by kayak up the Tzendales River, our GPS receiver falls overboard and vanishes in the deep blue water. We are on the fourth day of an...
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Ambiente
Monday, September 23 2019
Fuente: SciDev Si bien la historia ha cumplido un importante papel en la distribución y diversidad de especies de peces en la cuenca del Amazonas, el cambio climático, la deforestación y la...
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Ambiente
Monday, September 16 2019
Fuente: SciDev En noviembre de 2018 se comentó aquí, en este espacio, sobre la elección de Jair Bolsonaro como presidente de Brasil. El texto del Radar Latinoamericano de ese mes enumeró una serie...
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Ambiente
Sunday, September 8 2019
Source: Science MagazineA rash of fires in the Brazilian Amazon has caused diplomatic tensions between Brazil and several European countries and triggered protests from environmental groups around the...
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Noticiero
Sunday, September 8 2019
Fuente: SciDev En las últimas décadas, Brasil destacó en América Latina y a nivel mundial por la ciencia producida en el país. Sin embargo, desde 2016, hay una reducción drástica de recursos al...
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Ambiente
Monday, August 26 2019
Fuente: SciDev La pérdida de cobertura forestal resultante de la deforestación en la Amazonia brasileña puede ser 15 por ciento mayor que lo que apuntan las estimaciones oficiales. Así concluyó un...
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Ambiente
Monday, August 26 2019
Fuente: SciDev.net La actividad minera en la región genera grandes debates porque, según sus detractores, destruye la biodiversidad, contamina el aire y el agua, y genera consecuencias sociales,...
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Noticiero
Friday, July 12 2019
Source: Science MagazineSÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Is Brazil experiencing a drug epidemic? The answer to that question has spiraled into a legal battle between scientists and government officials over the...
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Noticiero
Sunday, June 23 2019
Source: Science MagazineSÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Is Brazil experiencing a drug epidemic? The answer to that question has spiraled into a legal battle between scientists and government officials over the...
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