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Economy

Health costs pressure China to increase tax on cigarettes after the billion-dollar impact of smoking nearly doubles in 8 years

Caio Aviz 10/06/2026 at 08:50

Science and Technology

Sedentary lifestyle advances silently in Brazil while millions ignore one of the biggest risk factors for cancer and other serious diseases.

Jefferson Augusto 03/06/2026 at 12:26

Interesting facts

10 shocking facts about alcohol that experts want to turn into a global warning before millions continue to fall ill silently

Jefferson Augusto 14/05/2026 at 23:53

Interesting facts

Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship mobilizes WHO after deaths on board and monitored disembarkation in the Canary Islands

Keila Andrade 11/05/2026 at 06:12

Science and Technology

WHO breaks its silence on hantavirus on the MV Hondius, rules out similarity with the start of Covid-19, and explains why the global risk remains low

Caio Aviz 06/05/2026 at 17:04

Science and Technology

The WHO classified ham, bacon, and sausage in the same Group 1 as tobacco and asbestos, and studies indicate that 50 grams per day of processed meat increase the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%.

Valdemar Medeiros 01/05/2026 at 13:42

Geopolitics

Europe tightens tobacco regulations and raises global alert: how Brazil can learn from new control policies, sales restrictions, and focus on public health.

Caio Aviz 20/04/2026 at 23:42

Porto Velho lidera ranking como cidade brasileira mais poluída em 2024, com níveis de PM2.5 muito acima do recomendado pela OMS.

Interesting facts

Brazil’s Most Polluted City Is Surrounded by the Amazon, Yet Its Air Is Nearly Six Times Above the WHO’s Safe Limit: Porto Velho Earns This Title Due to Wildfires, Dry Climate, and Urban Emissions, With PM2.5 Concentration Far Above the World Health Organization Standard.

Ruth Rodrigues 20/02/2026 at 18:58

Cientistas analisam variante recombinante da Mpox em laboratório com sequenciamento genômico exibido em monitores e microscópio em destaque.

Science and Technology

WHO Confirms New Recombinant Mpox Variant with Mixture of Lineages Ib and IIb Following Cases in the United Kingdom and India and Strengthens Global Epidemiological Surveillance

Caio Aviz 20/02/2026 at 17:52

Profissionais de saúde em ação de vigilância sanitária internacional relacionada ao vírus Nipah.

Interesting facts

Ministry of Health Addresses Nipah Virus After Carnival, Details Real Risks of the Disease, International Scenario, Surveillance Protocols, and Monitoring in Brazil

Felipe Alves da Silva 15/02/2026 at 08:35

Science and Technology

Nipah Virus in Brazil: How the Ministry of Health Acts to Prevent the Disease in the Country and What Is Really True About the Illness That Emerged in India and Worries the World

Noel Budeguer 03/02/2026 at 18:43

Amostra de sangue analisada em laboratório para identificação do vírus Influenza A H3N2, com equipamentos médicos e ambiente clínico de vigilância epidemiológica.

Science and Technology

Health Ministry Confirms First Case of New Influenza A Virus (H3N2) in Brazil, Increasing Epidemiological Surveillance, Reinforcing WHO Alerts, and Restructuring Seasonal Flu Monitoring in the Country

Caio Aviz 17/12/2025 at 16:38

Health costs pressure China to increase tax on cigarettes after the billion-dollar impact of smoking nearly doubles in 8 years

Sedentary lifestyle advances silently in Brazil while millions ignore one of the biggest risk factors for cancer and other serious diseases.

10 shocking facts about alcohol that experts want to turn into a global warning before millions continue to fall ill silently

Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship mobilizes WHO after deaths on board and monitored disembarkation in the Canary Islands

WHO breaks its silence on hantavirus on the MV Hondius, rules out similarity with the start of Covid-19, and explains why the global risk remains low

The WHO classified ham, bacon, and sausage in the same Group 1 as tobacco and asbestos, and studies indicate that 50 grams per day of processed meat increase the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%.

Europe tightens tobacco regulations and raises global alert: how Brazil can learn from new control policies, sales restrictions, and focus on public health.

Brazil’s Most Polluted City Is Surrounded by the Amazon, Yet Its Air Is Nearly Six Times Above the WHO’s Safe Limit: Porto Velho Earns This Title Due to Wildfires, Dry Climate, and Urban Emissions, With PM2.5 Concentration Far Above the World Health Organization Standard.

WHO Confirms New Recombinant Mpox Variant with Mixture of Lineages Ib and IIb Following Cases in the United Kingdom and India and Strengthens Global Epidemiological Surveillance

Ministry of Health Addresses Nipah Virus After Carnival, Details Real Risks of the Disease, International Scenario, Surveillance Protocols, and Monitoring in Brazil

Nipah Virus in Brazil: How the Ministry of Health Acts to Prevent the Disease in the Country and What Is Really True About the Illness That Emerged in India and Worries the World

Health Ministry Confirms First Case of New Influenza A Virus (H3N2) in Brazil, Increasing Epidemiological Surveillance, Reinforcing WHO Alerts, and Restructuring Seasonal Flu Monitoring in the Country

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Heir bought 23,000 degraded acres in the Scottish Highlands, fenced the area, planted nearly 1 million native trees, and transformed empty mountains into a forest officially recognized after meeting 15 evaluation criteria over 20 years.

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, was covered in flowers and turned into a colorful carpet with more than 200 species in the phenomenon called “desert bloom,” when atypical rains awaken seeds that had remained dormant in the soil for many years.