published in the journal Frontiers in Water.
“The recent drought in the Pantanal was caused by a meteorological phenomenon we call atmospheric blocking. A high-pressure area prevented the formation of rainclouds throughout the central-western portion of South America. Temperatures were very high and relative humidity very low,”
José Marengo, a researcher at CEMADEN and principal investigator for the study, told
Agência FAPESP.
“Lack of rain combined with high temperatures and very low humidity led to a heightened risk of fire, which extended to agricultural areas as well as natural parts of the biome.”
Deliberate burning of vegetation to clear land for cattle ranching contributed to the spread of wildfires throughout the region, and these were harder to control owing to the long period of drought. “Fires caused on one hand by warmer air and lack of rain in the Pantanal, and on the other by the burning of areas to clear the vegetation for cattle to graze, resulted i
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In this commentary, Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler says a new investigation by Mongabay-Brasil casts doubt on the Brazilian palm oil industry’s promise to usher in a new era of sustainable palm oil in the Amazon.
“In the late 2000s and the early 2010s, the Brazilian palm oil industry told us that oil palm plantation expansion would take a different path than in Southeast Asia,” he writes. “We were told that by limiting oil palm plantations to low-yielding cattle pasture that was long ago carved out of the region’s forests, palm oil could increase carbon storage, create more economic activity and employment, and help restore ecosystem services all without deforestation.”
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Classrooms without borders: Global education gets a boost as students and faculty participate in courses that cross institutions, continents and time zones
FIU has taken online learning to the next level with international collaborations that have students working “side by side” on projects that integrate a world of diverse perspectives and backgrounds
May 17, 2021 at 9:00am
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They are studying biodiversity and have been paired up with peers in other countries to analyze and present on some of nature’s most complex relationships.
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CARY, N.C., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The winners of the first-ever SAS global Hackathon delivered solutions to vexing problems by using big data AI. Teams from across the globe used cloud-native SAS
® Viya
® advanced analytics, Microsoft Azure, and other tools to improve people s lives, enhance businesses and promote a healthy planet.
First ever global SAS Hackathon winners transformed data into decisions.
Throughout March, analytics leader SAS brought together hundreds of curious minds for the virtual Hackathon. The competition challenged data scientists, technology enthusiasts and business visionaries in a host of industries to apply technology to solve real-world business and humanitarian problems.