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Prevention of deforestation in the Amazon will include new Japanese satellite in 2013
Image transmission interrupted in 2011 by the Fukushima nuclear disaster will resume with launch of new equipment capable of producing high quality images, even during the rainy season
Chagas disease in Japan and in developed countries
Tsutomu Takeuchi, Director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine at Nagasaki University warns public health authorities of the importance of improved treatment of those infected and the adoption of preventive measures
Restrictions on Brazil’s future as agricultural leader
Infrastructure problems, low value-added products, exclusion of poor rural works, issues involving food safety, and threats to the environment are obstacles highlighted by scientists
Cooperation may stimulate Brazilian research in marine sciences
Lecture about challenges to researchers highlights the little known wealth of the biodiversity of Brazil’s marine environments
Agricultural project by the region’s first immigrants produces social technologies in the Amazon
Evolution of the project for growing cacau, implemented in the 1930s by Japanese immigrants to the Amazon, gave rise to rural development alternatives in Brazil