➡️ The longest-living orca in captivity must be returned to its natural habitat in the northwestern Pacific Ocean more than 50 years after it was captured. Lolita, also known as Tokitae, was around 4 years old when she was imprisoned and, for decades, has been the main attraction at the Miami Seaquarium water park in the United States. 🐋
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➡️ Despite their ban more than 35 years ago, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), known for their harmful effects on the ozone layer, reached record levels in 2020, according to a study published this Monday (3). These gases cause a powerful greenhouse effect: their level of heat accumulation is 10 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2), the main cause of global warming, according to data from the Global Carbon Project.
➡️ On the path to mitigation and adaptation to climate change, the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development (MIDR) and the Microsoft of Brazil announced, this Monday (3), the ClimaAdapt platform. The tool uses public data from different environmental agencies to identify specific vulnerabilities of Brazilian regions to extreme weather events. 🌀
➡️ One of Europe's main air hubs, Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, announced this week that it intends to end night flights by the end of 2025.. The plan aims to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the airport, in addition to reducing noise pollution in its surroundings. ✈️
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➡️ President Lula sanctioned, with a veto, the law that obliges sanitation concessionaires to prevent water waste. The standard also deals with the use of rainwater and so-called gray water, that used in showers, bathroom sinks, tanks and washing machines. 🚰
➡️ A satellite took off from Florida, in the early hours of this Friday (7), equipped with a new instrument from NASA, the American Space Agency, which will make it possible to measure air pollution in North America hour by hour, neighborhood by neighborhood. This scientific tool, called TEMPO, should make it possible to monitor the diffusion of pollutants with much more precision than before, from their emission source and as they spread through the wind.. 🛰️
➡️ The number of fines for deforestation and other infractions in the Amazon region, in the first quarter of 2023, increased by 219%, compared to the average for the same period from 2019 to 2022. The data are from Ibama. 📝
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➡️ Deforestation in the Amazon increased again in March, ending, in the 100 days of Lula's government, one of the worst first quarters ever recorded, according to official figures released this Friday (7). Satellite images detected 356km² of destroyed forest cover in the Brazilian part of the largest tropical forest on the planet. 🌳
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