Since the mid-twentieth century, the term "third world" has been used to represent the group of countries considered underdeveloped, generally located in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The expression was created by the French economist Alfred Sauvy, who, based on...

Although the shape of our planet – which is spherical by nature – never changes, the modes of symbolic representation of its structure can be altered over time, as in the case of maps. For each new territory identified and discovered, a ritual of cataloging and naming...

The oceans cover about two-thirds of the Earth's surface; however, they are still little known and conserved. The protection of life in the water is the theme of the Sustainable Development Goal 14 of the United Nations (UN), which officially launched last Tuesday...

The world is becoming increasingly "high tech". The most recent technical advances in science have opened up the scope for technology to expand, and today we have systems such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), an innovation that can be used to improve the way we live...

Although they do not figure as agendas of the current government, biodiversity conservation and the fight against climate change have been the subject of works developed in several research centers and public universities in the country. This is the case, for example,...