Caatinga

Or you can find out like crazy stuff, like for example, areas that have native vegetation.

Caatinga is a kind of a savanna vegetation in Brazil that were clear cut and converted into solar panels.

Like nothing more dirty or a clean energy, right? So you should not have been like implanting solar panels on the cost of nature, right? So it should be the opposite.

But it's just things that you see when you see like the dynamics of how land is changing over time.

South America has the world's largest tropical rainforest, arid deserts, high mountain ranges, and so much more.

We are focusing on the Caatinga biome of northern Brazil.

Oh, I've heard of Caatinga before, but isn't that a small range, only covering maybe 10% of the country?

Yes, it's definitely small compared to something like the Amazon, but it's home to over 5,000 plants and 1,300 vertebrates.

Thousands of wild species are adapted to its warm, semi-arid condition.

You saw higher risks in the Amazon, Cerrado, Pampa, and in the very low HDI municipalities.

But for example, Caatinga, you saw the opposite effect of lower odds of preterm birth.

Did you guys reflect on that?

Yes, Taissa.

As you mentioned, Brazil is quite, uh, continental, and it has, uh, by the Köppen classification, six biomes.

So we go from Amazon to Caatinga, as you mentioned.

Caatinga is very close to a semi-arid region, and there, where drought is expected to, to be present more frequently than others, we saw an inverse association of what is expected to preterm.

And we reflect on that, and, uh, we were super transparent in, in the paper, and thank you for, for the Lance Editorial and you to, to help us to discuss that point.