Freelance work
I have covered science, environment, and science policy to specialized media in Brazil and beyond, first as a part-time science reporter (2015-2020) and now as a full-time freelance reporter (2020-current). The focus of my coverage has been on physical and Earth sciences (especially climate change - but with stories on health, technology, and other themes under my belt). My work has been published by Nature, Science, Eos, The New York Times, Scientific American, Context (formerly Thomson Reuters Foundation), and other publications.
Brazil’s ban on X: how scientists are coping with the cutoff
The race to save fossils exposed by Brazil’s record-setting floods
First biolab in South America for studying world’s deadliest viruses is set to open
‘Who will protect us from seeing the world’s largest rainforest burn?’ The mental exhaustion faced by climate scientists
Aquecimento global aumentou em 40% seca e calor durante incêndios de junho no Pantanal
Ciência Fundamental: A cientista que quer entender uma paisagem que não faz sentido
Many Forests in One: A Glimpse into the Amazon’s Diversity - Eos
Adriana Alves: Creating an Inclusive Academy - Eos
Pedro Val: River Science Runs in the Family - Eos
Falta de manutenção e falhas de projeto impediram o sistema de contenção de cheias de proteger Porto Alegre
O Terror das Barragens
Ciência Fundamental: Como minhocas marinhas ajudam a entender a diversidade da costa brasileira
Aquecimento global ameaça principal sistema de correntes marinhas do Atlântico
Ciência Fundamental: Fungos patogênicos - a área negligenciada no estudo de doenças negligenciadas
What’s Next for the Anthropocene?
Ciência Fundamental: "Estamos perdendo espécies antes que possamos entendê-las", diz ecóloga
Presencia femenina en fincas agropecuarias favorece innovación rural
Ciência Fundamental: O que significa a rejeição do Antropoceno como época geológica?
Cerca de 30% da vegetação nativa do Pampa foram cortadas desde 1985
Brazil’s deforestation ‘police’ on strike — threatening climate goals
Como a inteligência artificial promete melhorar produção de matéria-prima do chocolate na Amazônia
In Brazil, one in two female researchers has faced sexual harassment
O que há na lama da chuva perto das áreas de mineração? Cientistas e moradores pesquisam
Climate Tracker Fellowship
Even if I first started writing about climate change in 2014 still as a science communication master's student — and kept working with the theme in my almost four years at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio — I felt the need to improve as a journalist who tells climate stories to international audiences. So in 2020 I was one of the 12 fellows selected worldwide to Climate Tracker's Climate Journalism Mentorship for Young Media Professionals, an exciting opportunity that led to a lot of learning, interesting stories, and contacts with amazing fellow climate journalists from four continents. It was a great experience and an opportunity to produce climate change content to a variety of platforms.
EP09: Being a Brazilian Journalist in the time of Bolsonaro with Meghie Rodgrigues
Brazil vows Biden won’t change environmental policy - after 94,000 fires
Climate Tracker live interview with Claudio Angelo, from Brazil's Climate Observatory
ComCiência and ClimaCom
Selected work from when I reported to both magazines (2012-2015) as a Mídia Ciência scholarship holder (São Paulo Research Foundation) and a Tecnhical Development scholarship holder (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq). At ComCiência I wrote about science in general and at ClimaCom I wrote mainly about the scientific, political and human dimensions of climate change.
Escrever a morte, reinventar a vida
Reforma agrária e desmatamento na Amazônia: usos da terra e preservação da floresta em choque?
Arquiteturas e modos de re-existência no Antropoceno
Modelar não é prever
Para medir a riqueza, é preciso ir além do PIB
Passos de uma dança contínua: som, silêncio e ruído
Transformações no ensino técnico buscam mudança de cenário no Brasil
Varrendo por baixo do tapete da pesquisa científica
See also: International Journalism Festival 2009 (Perugia, Italy)
Some other writing worth of notice (which I am especially fond of) was produced during the 2009 edition of the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, to which I was selected as one of the volunteers. In covering the festival to the online magazine of that year's edition, I followed panels on changes of the journalistic industry worldwide and other pressing issues of that year. The International Journalism Festival takes place yearly by late-April in Perugia and convenes high-profile journalists and Journalism specialists from all over the globe. The following pieces have been archived in the Festival's website and look different from when originally published - with the same original content.
A quick pick on Brazilian television
A way out for savage capitalism?
News on hard news in Latin America