Ciência com Impacto

Published in 11/3/2020

CESAM initiative that includes thematic videos of 3 minutes and a 1-h podcast that will be weekly released, with the videos alternating with the podcasts. All the content will be available in the website https://cienciacomimpacto.pt. THEMATIC VIDEOS [The following content is only available in Portuguese] Conservação de mamíferos marinhos - Catarina Eira   PODCASTS [The following content is only available in Portuguese] Available soon...

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Ask to a researcher of CESAM

Published in 3/6/2020

Section that CESAM publishes in the local journal Diário de Aveiro. In this section, you can ask what is the effect of a specific action, why is something happening, or what can you do to contribute to a specific end. The only limitation is that the theme must be related with ecology, biodiversity, atmospheric and hydrodynamic forecasts, human impact (aerial, aquatic and terrestrial), forest fires, sustainability, land management, climate change and related areas. Send your question to cesam-divulga@ua.pt. Are Portuguese children at risk from exposure to mycotoxins in cereal-based foods? - Paula Alvito & Ricardo Assunção & Carla Martins Is Spirulina a "superfood"? - Inês Macário Do green flowers exist? - Paulo Silveira What effects does the pandemic have on air quality? - Alexandra Monteiro Are there good bacteria and viruses? - Adelaide Almeida What are the advantages and disadvantages of using algae in the diet of aquaculture fish? - Mário Pacheco & Ana Marques Given the increasing rise in sea level, to what extent is it a risk to buy a house by the sea? - João Miguel Dias Is a fireplace lit every night in cold months a relevant source of domestic pollution? And will it have consequences for my health? - Célia Alves Is it worth making “green” walls and/or roofs in the house I am going to build? - Team of the project GENESIS To what extent do the materials used in day-to-day household chores increase the release of microplastics into the environment? For example, scouring pad or even brooms? - Teresa Rocha Santos What is the impact of hunting in the extinction of speciea? [Only available in Portuguese] - Rita Torres

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Bio Id & Ciência

Published in 1/4/2020

The main goal of this series is to disclosure the diversity of organisms, their role in ecosystems and contribute to science. Each episode starts with a kind of ID of an organism and will show the scientific discoveries related with it. It is a catalogue of the biological diversity from bacteria to vertebrates, disclosed by CESAM members. [The next content is only available in Portuguese] Jaguar - Nuno Negrões Maçarico-de-bico-direito - José Alves Texugo Europeu - Dário Hipólito Lagartixa do mato - Joana Fernandes

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