Brazil

Free tourism courses in high school For the first time in the country, tourism will be contemplated with free courses to train high school technicians to meet the needs of the travel market. With the inclusion of the sector in MedioTec, a modality of the National Program for Access to ...

Amazonian Plants It's not all forests and giant trees when it comes to Amazonian vegetation. In Serra de Carajás, in southeastern Pará, on top of 800-meter-high hills, scattered vegetation covers the ferruginous fields, also known as cangas. A research that ...

Amazonian indigenous tribe In the middle of the Bolivian Amazon rainforest, a group of indigenous people spend their days hunting, fishing or working on crops. For modern science, this lifestyle may partly explain the Tsimané's heart health. According to a study released Friday, that ...

Amazon River The results of the latest research by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes) (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) have discovered that the Amazon marine reef biome, at the mouth of the Amazon River, is the largest marine biome in the world. The researchers found that the region is at least 50,000 square kilometers. The team ...

Venezuelan Indians The return of 88 indigenous people of the Warao ethnicity to Venezuela is scheduled for April 2. In early February, 117 immigrants, including indigenous and non-indigenous, arrived in Manaus fleeing the political and economic crisis in the neighboring nation. Most of them spent ...

Brazilian HDI Brazil failed to advance in the Human Development Index (HDI) in 2015, maintaining the same indicator and position in the global ranking when compared to the previous year. Among 188 countries evaluated, the United Nations report released on Tuesday (21) puts Brazil in 79th position, the same ...

International award 'Rising Talents' After being awarded the prize "For Women in Science" in 2016, researcher Fernanda Werneck, from the National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA-MCTI) will receive the international award "Rising Talents", this Tuesday (21), in Paris. The researcher develops studies that investigate the effect of climate change ...

The company's new plan is to offer a minimum data allowance of 1 GB for seven days for the same price and period of time. The TIM Pre Classic, its simplest plan, will now offer 1 GB of internet for seven days at R$ 8.99; before it was 250 MB with the same price and period. Other advantages of this ...

Project 'Social Technologies in Amazonas' More than 2,700 rural and riverside families from the Amazon municipalities of Borba, Nova Olinda and Itacoatiara will benefit from three social technology projects in the areas of basic sanitation, water treatment and health. The initiative, launched this Friday (10) in Manaus, is ...

New rules for air transport Next Tuesday (14), the new rules for air transport of passengers in the country, approved by the National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac), will come into force. One of the most controversial changes is the one that allows airlines to charge passengers for ...