Latilong
Understand before you opine
Every story starts from an honest question and ends in an answer an ordinary reader can follow — and challenge.
Coordinates for reading the world
Latilong examines nature, science, sport and ways of living with scientific method — and shows how it reached every conclusion, so that anyone can check it.
lat · long · perspective in every coordinate
About
01 · Essence
02 · Method
03 · Life
Curiosity that invites checking
Latilong is for people who care about nature, want a healthier way of living and would rather understand the world through method than through opinion. Surf, science, culture and social questions belong in the same conversation — each one examined with the same care.
Science as a way of looking
Scientific method applied to what matters: from forecasting a swell to reading a social indicator. What cannot be verified is not claimed.
Nature, sport and the body
Surf, sea, movement and health: a brand for people who live outdoors and want to look after the place where they do it.
Purpose
What Latilong sets out to do
To connect people who care about nature, about their own health and about getting the facts right: produce analyses that help us know the world better, publish them in language that needs no degree, and keep everything open to checking — including when the result contradicts what we expected to find.
Outreach
Publications
Studies and shorter reads on sport, nature, science, culture and the perspectives that turn up along the way.
Research
Studies
Analyses with open data, published code and stated limits — reproducible from start to finish.
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E02
The beach was builtPublished
Built-up area at Praia do Francês and in Marechal Deodoro, measured from satellite between 2018 and 2025.
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E01
Green cover loss at Praia do FrancêsRetracted
It began as the evidence behind an accusation and ended as its retraction — with the error and the correction in the order they happened.
Study E01 gets its page in the next batch. To follow along, write to latilong.co@gmail.com.
Contact and support
Talk to Latilong
Contact
Collaborations, partnerships and story tips. We also answer questions about the method and the data behind the studies.
Donate
Latilong is independent and the studies have no sponsor. Official donation channels will be published here soon — until then, anyone who wants to support can write to us.