Farmland abandonment in Rio de Janeiro State is mainly instigated by the sugarcane industry crisis. The sugarcane crisis in Rio de Janeiro State affected traditional livelihoods and altered the environment and economy in the Norte Fluminense region (eastern part of Rio de Janeiro State). Therefore, ...
In 1992 the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro was attended by over 142 heads of state. Environmental organizations joined the proceedings with hopes of influencing the outcome. Five years later, organizations reconvened to assess the progress that had been made since the Earth Summit. Bound by ...
Presents a world health report on new health promotion in the slums of Rio de Janeiro where mortality rates are up to ten times that in rich areas. The Nov... Loewenberg,Samuel - 《Lancet》 被引量: 1发表: 2005年 Abuja slums: development, causes, waste-related health challenges, governme...
Earth Day 1990 gave a huge boost to recycling efforts worldwide and helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro—the largest gathering of heads of state in history. An estimated 200 million participants in 184 nations took part in Earth Day 2000, which ...
aBrazil's new Health Minister Hosein Selar has sacked two senior health officials in Rio de Janeiro amid growing concern about the epidemic of dengue fever. More than 80,000 people in southeast Brazil have caught the mosquito-born disease which causes severe headaches, fever and vomiting. In ...
A recent increase in the use of pigs as models in neuroscience, cognition, and neurobehavioral studies is due to the close similarity in brain development, growth and anatomy to humans (Dickerson and Dobbing, 1966; Gieling et al., 2011; Glauser, 1966; Lind et al., 2007; Lunney, 2007; ...
We use under-explored municipality level datasets to assess the recent economic and policy determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We estima
In 1992, 20 years after the first united nations confer- ence on human environment, the second united nations conference was held under the headline of environment and development in Rio de Janeiro. The focus of this con- ference was on the interdependences of the factors of environment, ...
Infection by the dengue virus (DENV) threatens global public health due to its high prevalence and the lack of effective treatments. Host factors may contribute to the pathogenesis of DENV; herein, we investigated the role of nuclear factor (erythroid-de
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in pregnant women has been established as a cause of microcephaly in newborns. Here we test the hypothesis that neurodevelopmental stages when the brain is undergoing rapid growth are particularly vulnerable to the effects of ZIKV infection. We injected ZIKV intracranially...