Exhibition “Langsdorff: The River Expedition 200 Years Later”
Exhibition “Langsdorff: The River Expedition 200 Years Later” The technological leap of the European and American industrial revolutions two or three centuries ago marked a turning point in natural history. Quantitative changes in the way goods were produced and consumed resulted in another way of life on Earth, qualitatively different from anything previously known. […]
Photo of the Month (December 2025 edition): Beautiful from afar
Photo of the Month (December 2025 edition): Beautiful from afar Last month, the official results on vegetation loss in the Cerrado and the Amazon were released by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Following a year-by-year slowdown, the results look beautiful from afar, but are far from beautiful when examined closely. Reductions […]
Florence’s Brazil: photographic reinterpretations from the Tietê to the Amazon on the bicentennial of the Langsdorff Expedition
Florence’s Brazil: photographic reinterpretations from the Tietê to the Amazon on the bicentennial of the Langsdorff Expedition Exactly two hundred years ago, on September 3rd, 1825, a smack departed from Rio de Janeiro carrying the main members of what would later be recognized as one of the most important scientific expeditions into the Brazilian […]