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1National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, São José dos Campos, Brazil
2Graduate Program in Natural Disasters, UNESP/CEMADEN, State University of São Paulo, São José dos Campos, Brazil
3State of São Paulo Secretary of Infrastructure and Environment, São Paulo, Brazil
4CPTEC/INPE-Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate Studies/National Institute for Space Research, São Paulo, Brazil
5Paula Souza State Technological Education Center, São Paulo, Brazil
The Pantanal region in South America is one of the world s largest wetlands. Since 2019, the Pantanal has suffered a prolonged drought that has spelled disaster for the region, and subsequent fires have engulfed hundreds of thousands of hectares. The lack of rainfall during the summers of 2019 and 2020 was caused by reduced transport of warm and humid summer air from Amazonia into the Pantanal. Instead, a predominance of warmer and drier air masses from subtropical latitudes contributed to a
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In 2020, with the world isolated at home, schools and research groups offered a series of online courses on the world of Arab culture. For example, there were courses from Gepom, Universidade Federal do Sergipe, and Revista Diáspora. Apparently 2021 follows the same trend. There are already several courses planned for the coming months, for those who want to complete their 40 studies.
The Brazilian Arab Culture Institute, based in Brasilia, is launching a series of short courses. The first, with lessons from strategic analyst Mohammed Hadjab, will be an introduction to Arab nationalism. The course starts February 24. There are four courses of two hours each with a total cost of R $ 150. Registration must be done through this WhatsApp: (61) 99824-0503.
A developing country’s greatest fear is to be the last in line for vaccination during a pandemic and this has happened before. African countries know it too well: when H5N1 hit in 2004 and later H1N1 in 2009, they were among the last to receive vaccines. The most developed countries made sure they could get large amounts that were later stored despite the promise of donation. Vaccine nationalism affects us all, and yet we’re seeing signs of it happening all over again.
Latin American scientists are battling this fear since the start of COVID-19. During the pandemic, students volunteered to produce safe equipment for the health care workers in their country, but scientists knew they needed to do more. Despite challenges faced, Latin American scientists made strong contributions that are beneficial not only their own countries but also to their neighbors.
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IMAGE: Neanderthal-ized brain organoids (left) look very different than modern human brain organoids (right) they have a distinctly different shape, and differ in the way their cells proliferate and how. view more
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As a professor of pediatrics and cellular and molecular medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Alysson R. Muotri, PhD, has long studied how the brain develops and what goes wrong in neurological disorders. For almost as long, he has also been curious about the evolution of the human brain what changed that makes us so different from preceding Neanderthals and Denisovans, our closest evolutionary relatives, now extinct?