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The Papagaia (*B. bilineatus*), whose green colour ensures camouflage among the foliage of the trees, is one of the 12 species of snake found in the Alto Juruá region in Acre. Personal archive of the author, Paulo Bernarde

May 3, 2024

Collecting live snakes in remote Amazon regions for study is no easy task – here’s how we do it

Paulo Sérgio Bernarde, Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC)

A snake bite in a remote area of the Amazon can literally be a matter of life and death. Amazon+10 Initiative study collects snakes to improve the serums available in the region

A technician holds vials of Butantan-DV’s lyophilised formulation. Butantan

March 14, 2024

Dengue: Brazilian single-dose vaccine could help turn tide in the fight against fever

Esper Georges Kallás, Faculdade de Medicina da USP (FMUSP)

A new single dose vaccine is expected to be registered with the country’s national health agency by the second half of this year.

Large machines work in the soya monoculture on a farm in Sidrolândia, Mato Grosso do Sul: the current trajectory of deforestation is diminishing the capacity of the Amazon and Cerrado to regulate rainfall patterns, putting the country’s agricultural systems at great risk. AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

November 22, 2023

Deforestation jeopardises agribusiness and food security in Brazil and worldwide

Argemiro Teixeira Leite Filho, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Diminishing forests reduces the capacity of the Amazon and Cerrado to regulate rainfall patterns. That’s bad for communities, but also bad for business and global food security.

The largest tributary on the left bank of the Amazon, the Rio Negro is known for its paradisiacal landscapes, fresh, clean and abundant waters, where pink dolphins swim. Today, much of its riverbed around Manaus looks like this. AP Photo/Edmar Barros

November 22, 2023

Amazon region hit by trio of droughts in grim snapshot of the century to come

Philip Fearnside, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) and Rosimeire Araújo Silva, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)

The drought is expected to affect the region until mid-2024 at the earliest. Signs of its severity include the lowest water levels in the city of Manaus in 121 years.

Calixcoca, a vaccine created in Brazil that is in the final stages of study, helps to reduce the compulsion to use drugs and could be an important tool in the package of treatments against addiction - which also includes psychiatric, psychological and social assistance support and help from the family. AP Photo/Felipe Dana

October 25, 2023

Crack vaccine research we did on rats could help babies of mothers who use cocaine – and reduce addiction

Frederico Garcia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Calixcoca, which is in the final stages of study, could be a tool in the addiction treatment package.

President Lula at the opening of the UN General Assembly last week: the challenge for Brazil is to maintain political independence without taking sides in the dispute over the new global hegemony between China and the United States. Mary Altaffer/AP

September 28, 2023

The UN and the multilateral system are in crisis – what the Global South must do

Monica Herz, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and Giancarlo Summa, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

The war in Ukraine is both a symptom and a cause of a paralysing crisis in the international system. It is up to the Global South to reform the multilateral system.

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