This work presents the SEEG platform, a 46-year long dataset of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in Brazil (1970–2015) providing more than 2 million data records for the Agriculture, Energy, Industry, Waste and Land Use Change Sectors at national and subnational levels. The SEEG dataset was developed by the Climate Observatory, a Brazilian civil society initiative, based on the IPCC guidelines and Brazilian National Inventories embedded with country specific emission factors and processes, raw data from multiple official and non-official sources, and organized together with social and economic indicators. Once completed, the SEEG dataset was converted into a spreadsheet format and shared via web-platform that, by means of simple queries, allows users to search data by emission sources and country and state activities. Because of its effectiveness in producing and making available data on a consistent and accessible basis, SEEG may significantly increase the capacity of civil society, scientists and stakeholders to understand and anticipate trends related to GHG emissions as well as its implications to public policies in Brazil.

Objetivou-se investigar e resgatar o conhecimento tradicional acerca dos recursos vegetais, o manejo, o preparo e a indicação terapêutica das plantas medicinais utilizadas na Comunidade Barreirinho, Santo Antônio de Leverger, Mato Grosso (MT). O estudo qualitativo e quantitativo utilizou pré-teste, observação direta, turnê guiada, entrevistas e frequência absoluta e relativa. Identificaram-se 141 espécies medicinais, pertencentes a 60 famílias botânicas, e, entre elas, Fabaceae, Lamiaceae e Asteraceae foram as mais representativas.

Toxicidade de extratos vegetais de plantas do cerrado de uso medicinal Toxicity of vegetable extracts from plants in the cerrado for medicine use

Amydetinae is an exclusively Neotropical subfamily of fireflies, distributed among three genera: Amydetes Illiger, 1807, Magnoculus McDermott, 1964, and Memoan Silveira & Mermudes, 2013. Here, we describe three new species of Amydetinae: two belonging to Amydetes (A. alexisp. nov. and A. marolaesp. nov.) and one to the previously monotypic Memoan (Me. conanisp. nov.). All three species are known only from the Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. Endoskeletal structures of Memoan and Magnoculus species are described and compared with those of Amydetes for the first time. After studying the type material, Photinus fruhstorferi Pic, 1942 is transferred to Memoan, generating Memoan fruhstorfericomb. nov., and Me. ciceroi Silveira & Mermudes, 2013 syn. nov. is placed as a junior synonym. We also redescribe Magnoculus obscurus Olivier, 1885 and compare it to other species of genus and to other amydetine taxa to identify potential new diagnostic traits for the Amydetinae and its constituting genera. We provide an updated diagnosis for Memoan, illustrations for all four species, and a distribution map for the three new species, as well as a key to adult males of the three amydetine genera, and an updated key to Amydetes species based on males.

A educação está em constante transformação e o momento histórico no qual vivemos exige uma reflexão sobre a inclusão de idéias inovadoras no atual modelo de ensino. Este artigo objetiva discutir a realização de um minicurso aplicado na área de Saúde e Meio Ambiente envolvendo atividades dinâmicas no ensino de Biologia, contribuindo para a formação e construção do conhecimento. A metodologia baseou-se na modalidade didática expositiva dialógica aliada a prática dinamizada no processo de ensino aprendizagem. Os resultados mostram que há garantias de eficiência na aplicação de práticas dinâmicas, para que ocorra o aprendizado significativo sobre o tema desenvolvido.