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Study Could Improve Fire Monitoring in Brazilian Savanna
Publicado em 29 maio 2019
A study conducted by scientists from Brazil, the United States and Portugal investigated the accuracy and consistency of different satellite data collections with regard to the location and size of burned areas in the Cerrado biome, the Brazilian savanna.
The results, published in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation will help improve the output produced by Programa Queimadas, a program run by Brazil’s National Space Research Institute (INPE) to [...]
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Cost of not adapting to climate change would be at least five times higher
Publicado em 29 setembro 2017Like other coastal cities, Santos, at the shore of São Paulo State, Brazil, is experiencing a situation reminiscent of Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper. Sea levels are expected to continue rising in the years ahead, and the city faces the dilemma of adapting or having to pay the high price of increasingly frequent storm surges and floods. Adapting to climate change involves public works that place a costly burden on the budget of any city. A wide-ranging study has concluded that [...]ver notícia -
Study investigates collapse of natural or social systems
Publicado em 17 maio 2017A tipping point is a critical threshold at which a dynamical system undergoes an irreversible transformation, typically owing to a small change in inputs or parameters. This concept is very broad and can refer to the extinction of an animal or a plant species, the depletion of a water source, or the financial collapse of an institution, among many other natural and social phenomena. Numerical simulations of tipping points by Everton Santos Medeiros, a researcher at the University of São [...]ver notícia