Tag: Brazil

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

No apagar das luzes

Cortes orçamentários, fuga de cérebros e ataques políticos desmoralizam o INPE, um ícone da ciência sul-americana _SCIENCE

Health in the Amazon

Local communities protect the rainforest but lack adequate healthcare _NATURE

Amazon delivery

A rainforest expedition brings COVID-19 vaccines to some of Brazil’s most remote and vulnerable groups _SCIENCE

A Golden Menace

An invasive mussel is devastating ecosystems as it spreads through South American rivers, threatening the Amazon basin

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A suffocated nation

Brazil is far from being a high suicide rate country. The rate of ‘self-induced death’ in the country is close to 5 per 100,000 – six times lower than the average observed in countries where suicide is a big problem like Lithuania and South Korea. However, the reality is completely different when it concerns the…

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The hard reality of giving birth in Brazil

Cesareans and unnecessary medical procedures are the daily reality of labor in Brazil. Here, 52% of all babies are born by cesarean, a rate three times bigger than the accepted as healthy by the World Health Organization (WHO). When it comes only to the private health system, the number is even higher: 88% of births…

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