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Elisama Vieira

WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Elisama Vieira

Brazilian Academy of Sciences, From IYBSSD partners, General newsBy Abdulsalam Mahmud08/03/2023Leave a comment

On this day, 8 March 2023, as we celebrate the International Women’s Day, let’s focus on a womand scientist profile

Children from a favela (Morro da Providencia) plant traditional herbs used in Afro-Indigenous cultures

OAD PROJECTS: Astronomy as fuel of life…

From IYBSSD partners, General news, International Astronomical UnionBy Abdulsalam Mahmud02/01/2023Leave a comment

Since 2011, the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) has funded over 200 projects that use astronomy as a tool to address challenges in communities and achieve SDGs. OAD’s Dana Ficut-Vicas and Maria Alejandra Diaz write on the changes these projects are creating in their communities.

File photo used for illustrative purpose only. Credit: Wilson Center.

IYBSSD stories: For a sustainable Brazil

General news, IYBSSDBy Abdulsalam Mahmud18/10/2022Leave a comment

Having a development agenda based on sustainability and sovereignty as strategic elements is extremely important for Brazil, write Ana Paula de Carvalho Teixeira and Mozart Neves Ramos.

CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Brazilian Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Marcos Pontes (Image: CERN)

Brazil becomes Associate Member of CERN

CERN, General newsBy Abdulsalam Mahmud27/07/2022Leave a comment

CERN Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti, and Brazilian Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Marcos Pontes, have signed an agreement admitting Brazil as an Associate Member State of CERN.

File photo sourced from internet. Credit: WENR - WES

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 12 (Brazil and science)

General news, IYBSSDBy Abdulsalam Mahmud30/04/2022Leave a comment

In an Op-ed article, João Guilherme Ometto, a Brazilian engineer, maintained that quality education and science is what rural communities in his native country direly need, ahead of the IYBSSD2022 opening ceremony.

Indigenous Amazonian communities are among those most affected by mercury contamination because their diets are based on fishing. Photo: Jucatili25-Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA 4.0

Mercury and lead threaten Latin American communities

SciDev.netBy Rosalia Omungo23/07/2021Leave a comment

Artisanal mining as well as industrial activities and waste disposal spread toxic heavy metals in the Amazon region, affecting particularly children health.

‘Act now’ to save Brazil’s rivers, avoid water crisis

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com09/10/2020Leave a comment

Water demand will continue to increase as its quality goes lower, espacially because of vegetation losses.

Neuroscientist Luiz Eugênio Mello has taken over as scientific director at FAPESP. Copyright- Léo Ramos Chaves Pesquisa FAPESP

Luiz Eugenio Mello: “An opportunity to change the world with science”

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com10/07/2020Leave a comment

Luiz Eugenio Mello, who has recently been appointed as the scientific director of one of Brazil’s major research funding agencies shares his vision for this agency and for science.

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