Tag - Brazil

Entries feed

COVID-19 hospitalizations pushing Brazil's health system to its limits

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...

Continue reading

Brazil in the Global Nuclear Order, 1945–2018

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...

Continue reading

Cuts imperil Brazil's stake in astronomy observatories (2017)

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...

Continue reading

Brazil’s scientists face 90% budget cut

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...

Continue reading

As melhores universidades do Brasil, segundo ranking britânico

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...

Continue reading

Brazil: Bolsonaro insists his daughter will not be jabbed

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...

Continue reading

Scientists Warn That The Amazon’s Tipping Point Puts Brazil’s Agribusiness, Energy Sector At Risk

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...

Continue reading

Lagartijas y conejos aumentan presencia del transmisor del Chagas

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...

Continue reading

Warning to Falkland Islanders traveling to Brazil: vaccinate against yellow fever

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...

Continue reading

Brazil opens ‘spectacular’ Antarctic research base, but will it have the cash to fulfill its potential?

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...

Continue reading

Hugh Cagle, Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–1700

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 + ...

Continue reading

Brasil é o único país da América Latina com acesso gigabit

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...

Continue reading

Brazil’s deforestation is exploding—and 2020 will be worse

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...

Continue reading

Mysterious oil spill threatens marine biodiversity haven in Brazil

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...

Continue reading

Muertes de defensores del Amazonas no llegan a la justicia

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...

Continue reading

Brazil scientists racing to finish a particle accelerator, fourth generation synchrotron Sirius

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...

Continue reading

In search of the ‘white jaguar’

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...

Continue reading

Peces de la Amazonía enfrentan nuevas amenazas

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...

Continue reading

¿A quién le interesa el desarme de la ciencia brasileña?

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...

Continue reading

‘A little bit of everything is burning.’: A NASA scientist dissects Amazon fires

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...

Continue reading

Ciencia en Brasil rumbo al despeñadero

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...

Continue reading

Deforestación en Amazonia sería peor de lo estimado

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...

Continue reading

Economía o ambiente, la encrucijada minera de Sudamérica

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,...

Continue reading

Brazilian government accused of suppressing data that would call its war on drugs into question

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...

Continue reading

Brazilian government accused of suppressing data that would call its war on drugs into question

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...

Continue reading

- page 1 of 3