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Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) (Bangladesh)
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In Brazil, hopes to use AI to save wildlife from roadkill fate
Publicado em 23 de abril de 2024
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – In Brazil, where about 16 wild animals become roadkill every second, a computer scientist has come up with a futuristic solution to this everyday problem: using AI to alert drivers to their presence.
Direct strikes on the vast South American country's extensive road network are the top threat to numerous species, forced to live in ever-closer proximity with humans.
According to the Brazilian Center for Road Ecology (CBEE), some 475 million vertebrate [...]
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Amazon rainforest may face tipping point by 2050: Study
Publicado em 15 fevereiro 2024PARIS, Feb 15, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - The Amazon rainforest is facing a barrage of pressures that might tip it into large-scale ecosystem collapse as soon as 2050, according to new research Wednesday warning of dire consequences for the region and the world. The Amazon, which holds more than 10 percent of the world's biodiversity, helps stabilise the global climate by storing the equivalent of around two decades of emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide. But stress from deforestation, [...]ver notícia -
Cuba's vaunted health system straining under Covid cases
Publicado em 02 setembro 2021HAVANA, Sept 2, 2021 (BSS/AFP) - Cuba's vaunted public health system, which boasts more doctors per capita than any other country, has been pushed to the brink in recent months by the arrival of the coronavirus Delta variant. In a country long left relatively unscathed by the global pandemic, doctors are now battling to get their hands on oxygen and drugs, and patients can wait up to 24 hours for a hospital bed. Despite having rolled out its own, home-grown Covid-19 vaccines -- Latin [...]ver notícia -
Amazon city of Manaus may have reached ‘herd immunity’: study
Publicado em 24 setembro 2020SAO PAULO, Sept 24, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The Brazilian city of Manaus, which was devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, may have suffered so many infections that its population now benefits from “herd immunity,” according to a preliminary study. Published on the website medRxiv, the study analyzed infection data with mathematical modeling to estimate that 66 percent of the population had antibodies to the new coronavirus in Manaus, where the pandemic’s passage was as fast [...]ver notícia