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Wildfires in 2023 caused massive CO2 emissions, compounding climate change
Publicado em 14 agosto 2024
Wildfires made more frequent and intense by climate change released significant quantities of CO2 into the air in 2023-2024, said a first-of-its-kind annual study published Wednesday.
Fires in natural areas caused 8.6 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions worldwide between March 2023 and February 2024 – 16 percent above average.
Only a relatively calm fires season in the African savannah prevented the 2023-2024 season from breaking a fresh record for CO2 emissions at the global [...]
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Wildfires caused major CO2 emissions last year: annual study
Publicado em 13 agosto 2024Paris (AFP) – Wildfires made more frequent and intense by climate change released significant quantities of CO2 into the air in 2023-2024, said a first-of-its-kind annual study published Wednesday. Fires in natural areas caused 8.6 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions worldwide between March 2023 and February 2024 -- 16 percent above average. Only a relatively calm fires season in the African savannah prevented the 2023-2024 season from breaking a fresh record for CO2 emissions at the [...]ver notícia -
"Atención, tapir en la vía": salvar animales con IA en las carreteras de Brasil
Publicado em 23 abril 2024Río de Janeiro (AFP) – "Atención, tapir en perímetro próximo en la vía". Un proyecto de aplicación para conductores aspira a reducir por medio de la tecnología de Inteligencia Artificial (IA) los atropellamientos de fauna silvestre en Brasil, la principal amenaza para varias especies vulnerables. En Brasil, 475 millones de animales mueren cada año aplastados o embestidos en carreteras, según cálculos [...]ver notícia -
In Brazil, hopes to use AI to save wildlife from roadkill fate
Publicado em 23 abril 2024Rio 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 [...]ver notícia -
Brasil se prepara para enfrentar una epidemia de dengue sin precedentes
Publicado em 02 fevereiro 2024En las primeras semanas de enero, el número de casos de dengue en Brasil se ha disparado y se teme una epidemia sin precedentes en los próximos meses, lo que ha encendido la alarma de las autoridades. A la espera de la evolución de la situación y de que finalicen los estudios sobre una vacuna del Instituto Butantan, un centro de investigación ubicado en Sao Paulo, el Gobierno adquirió unos 6,2 millones de dosis de una vacuna japonesa, que [...]ver notícia -
Sous Bolsonaro, les émissions de CO2 en Amazonie ont flambé, selon une étude
Publicado em 23 agosto 2023Les émissions de carbone en Amazonie ont doublé en 2019 et 2020, les deux premières années du mandat de l'ex-président brésilien d'extrême droite Jair Bolsonaro, quand la déforestation était au plus haut, selon une étude publiée mercredi. La plus grande forêt tropicale du monde est vitale pour freiner le réchauffement de la planète. Or, des scientifiques ont montré qu'elle avait [...]ver notícia -
El hallazgo "inquietante" de rocas de plástico en una isla remota de Brasil
Publicado emPor eso, la geóloga Fernanda Avelar Santos se quedó sin habla al encontrar en este pequeño territorio del Atlántico Sur una señal inquietante del impacto humano en un paisaje virgen: rocas formadas con la contaminación plástica que flota en el océano. Avelar Santos las vio por primera vez en 2019, cuando viajó a la isla para desarrollar su tesis doctoral sobre un tema completamente diferente: deslizamientos de tierra, [...]ver notícia -
Scientists Make 'Disturbing' Find On Remote Island: Plastic Rocks
Publicado emThere are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil. So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untouched landscape: rocks formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean. Santos first found the plastic rocks in 2019, when she traveled to the island to research her doctoral thesis on a completely different [...]ver notícia -
Cuba's vaunted health system straining under COVID cases
Publicado em 01 setembro 2021Cuba'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 America's first -- Cuba has seen [...]ver notícia -
Cuba autorise d'urgence Soberana, son second vaccin
Publicado em 21 agosto 2021Cuba dispose désormais de deux vaccins entièrement mis au point par les scientifiques du pays, après l'autorisation d'usage vendredi 20 août de son Soberana, a annoncé le même jour l'autorité de réglementation des médicaments (Cecmed). L'annonce intervient alors que le pays connaît un taux d'incidence élevé d'infections au COVID-19, un mois après l'autorisation d'Abdala, le [...]ver notícia