Biosfera 387 Calcarios vulneraveis

Pode o traçado de uma autoestrada e a exportação de pedra sobrepor-se à preservação de água de qualidade, utilizada no abastecimento público? A resposta está à vista nas Serras d´Aire e de Candeeiros. Desordenamento do território, perda de calcários e falta de esgotos acentuam a vulnerabilidade do aquífero cársico mais produtivo do país.

The Secret Life of Plankton

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New videography techniques have opened up the oceans' microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex. Marine biologist Tierney Thys teamed with Christian Sardet (CNRS/Tara Oceans), Noé Sardet and Sharif Mirshak to use footage from the Plankton Chronicles project to create a film designed to ignite wonder and curiosity about this hidden world that underpins our own food chain.

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TEDxMonterey - Melissa Garren - The Sea We've Hardly Seen

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Melissa is interested in the many ways that microscopic organisms support the health and vitality of our oceans. Although invisible to the naked eye, there are five million bacteria and fifty million viruses in an average teaspoon of clean seawater. These unseen communities are the masterminds behind the beautiful blue, vibrant, productive oceans we can see with our naked eyes. Much of her work to date has focused on the ways in which coastal pollution disturbs these healthy microbial processes, particularly on coral reefs, with the aim of finding more sustainable solutions for land and coastal water use practices. She is currently delving deeper into coral-microbe interactions by studying the ways humans can influence individual pathogen behavior. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she is applying cutting edge microfluidic technologies to understand how and why microbial diseases are infecting so many corals around the globe. By combining tools from engineering and biophysics, she is able to study coral disease at the scale on which it actually occurs: the microscale. She ultimately hopes to work at the interface of research and policy by facilitating the integration of microbial processes into conservation planning. Melissa holds a B.S. in molecular biology from Yale University and both an M.S. and a Ph.D. in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego.

Jardim Botânico de Brasília

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DVD-4 do II CTV - Jardim Botânico

O Jardim Botânico de Brasília possui 4500 hectares de unidade de conservação do cerrado brasileiro aberto ao público. É um lugar de rara beleza do cerrado que cerca o planalto central. Criado em 8 de março de 1985, o JBB passou por muitas reformas a fim de alcançar os objetivos almejados: ser uma área protegida do cerrado, um espaço de pesquisa, educação ambiental e lazer para a população. Título da obra: Jardim Botânico de Brasília / Ano da produção: 2008 / Cidade / Estado: Brasília/DF / Tempo de duração: 13' 27'' / Produção: UnBTV- Centro de Produção Cultural e Educativa