ScienceBlogs.com, part of sci­ence media com­pany Seed Media Group, US, has announced the launch of its lat­est inter­na­tional site, Sci­ence­Blogs Brazil (scienceblogs.com.br). ScienceBlogs.com is claimed to be the largest blog­ging net­work ded­i­cated to science.

Sci­ence­Blogs Brazil seeks to bring together orig­i­nal and influ­en­tial voices within the Brazil­ian sci­ence com­mu­nity, some of whom have already won acco­lades for their blog­ging. Edited from São Paulo by Car­los Hotta and Atila Iamarino, Sci­ence­Blogs Brazil launches with 23 Portuguese-language blogs on top­ics rang­ing from genet­ics to the environment.

With its grow­ing sci­ence com­mu­nity and empha­sis on sci­ence as a cor­ner­stone of eco­nomic growth, Brazil is emerg­ing as a vital player in global sci­ence cul­ture. The coun­try is the fifth most pop­u­lous in the world and has over 67 mil­lion Inter­net users. Sci­ence­Blogs pub­lishes more than 130 blogs around the world span­ning all areas of sci­ence and all inter­sec­tions of sci­ence and society.

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Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Mar.19, 2009