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Uma fumaça espessa e amarelada sobe de um incêndio que queima árvores em uma encosta, além de algumas estruturas e um caminhão de bombeiros
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Como os Incêndios e o Clima Afetam a Saúde Pública de Portugal

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 31 October 202431 October 2024

Os investigadores analisaram os dados para examinar os efeitos dos incêndios florestais, dos poluentes e dos fatores meteorológicos na mortalidade e na saúde cardiovascular no país ibérico.

Gravura em cobre de Lisboa, Portugal, durante o terramoto de 1755.
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Sedimentos Caribenhos Rastreados até o Terremoto e Tsunami Português de 1755

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 29 October 202429 October 2024

Arqueólogos escavando na Martinica encontraram por acaso o primeiro depósito de tsunami do terremoto encontrado no Novo Mundo. Ao que parece, o tsunami deixou um forte rastro, pois a onda passou por cima de um rio.

Thick, yellow-tinted smoke rises from a fire burning trees on a hillside beyond a couple of structures and a fire truck.
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How Wildfires and Weather Affect Portugal’s Public Health

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 12 October 20237 November 2024

Researchers dug into data to examine the effects of wildfires, pollutants, and meteorological factors on mortality and cardiovascular health in the Iberian country.

A map of the world centered on the Pacific Ocean, with continents in gray and oceans in white. Lines of bright colors cross the oceans and wind around continents, depicting the locations of transoceanic subsea cables.
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Making Underwater Cables SMART with Sensors

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 12 December 202212 December 2022

Future cables that stretch across the ocean, transmitting cat videos and financial transactions, could also contain temperature, pressure, and seismic sensors that would allow scientists to spy on the seafloor.

A small Raspberry Pi computer is hooked up to a larger computer.
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High Schoolers Measure Earth’s Magnetism from Space

by Meghie Rodrigues 5 July 202227 March 2023

The experiment was one of the winning projects of the Astro Pi Challenge, in which hundreds of young scientists analyzed data collected from the International Space Station.

Clouds near the Azores
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How Do Marine Gases Affect Cloud Formation?

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 25 February 202225 February 2022

By using novel aircraft measurements over the eastern North Atlantic Ocean, researchers shed light on the relationship between common marine biogenic gases and the microphysical properties of clouds.

The coast of Santa Maria Island in the Azores
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How Does Sand Move? New Observations Challenge Prevailing Formulas

by Andrew Chapman 11 February 202211 February 2022

Research in the Azores finds a discrepancy between field observations of sediment transport and predictions made with commonly used mathematical formulas.

Photo of a scientific raft used to extract sediment cores from Caldeirao Lake on Corvo Island, Azores.
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Sediments Suggest Vikings May Have Been the First to Settle the Azores

by Santiago Flórez 4 January 20224 October 2022

A multidisciplinary team studying lake sediments and climate change found evidence that the archipelago was inhabited 700 years earlier than historical sources claim.

Copper engraving of Lisbon, Portugal, during 1755 earthquake.
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Caribbean Sediment Traced to 1755 Portuguese Quake and Tsunami

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 19 September 201731 October 2024

Archaeologists digging in Martinique chanced upon the first tsunami deposit from the earthquake found in the New World. The tsunami left a strong trace, it seems, because the wave went up a river.

Tethered lifting system, turbine, and flux tower taken during fieldwork for project with a broad aim of measuring wind energy over Europe.
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Monitoring Wind in Portugal’s Mountains Down to Microscales

by H. J. S. Fernando, J. K. Lundquist and S. Oncley 31 May 20177 October 2021

Researchers are now gathered for the Perdigão field campaign, an effort to study wind flow physics at scales down to tens of meters. The effort should help engineers harness wind energy in Europe.

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