The Montreal Protocol has unintentionally slowed global warming and pushed back the first ice-free Arctic summer by 15 years _EOS
Author: Sofia Moutinho
Award-winning Brazilian journalist writing about science, health, and the environment.
Researchers and regulators plan for a future with fewer lab animals
The US Food and Drug Administration has reduced requirements for preclinical animal testing, leading to a surge of interest in organoids, tissue chips and in silico testing _NATURE MEDICINE
Seafloor plastic pollution is not going anywhere
The amount of microplastics at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea is growing as global production increases and plastic breakdown is halted_EOS
A river’s pulse
In the Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous people and researchers join hands to monitor the impacts of a controversial dam _SCIENCE
Testing the Resilience of the Amazon
A mega-experiment in Brazil will evaluate how tropical rainforests absorb carbon as emissions increase _EOS/AGU
The last hunt?
Future in peril for ‘the unicorn of the sea’ _THE GUARDIAN
In Brazil’s presidential race, the stakes for science and the environment are huge
A 2nd term for right-wing Jair Bolsonaro could further erode research and accelerate deforestation in the Amazon _SCIENCE
Medicinal knowledge vanishes as Indigenous languages die
Indigenous language loss threatens ancient knowledge of healing plants in many regions _SCIENCE
Tuberculosis Is the Oldest Pandemic, and Poverty Makes It Continue
TB is preventable and curable, yet it afflicts 1/4 of the world’s population
_SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Falling Star
It was a source of pride for decades. But Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research is rapidly losing funding, brains—and hope _SCIENCE
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