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Eastern Lowland Gorillas have been severely affected by human activity and fighting for survival since the 1990s. There has been continuous reduction in their count due to the instability in the Congo escalating into rebel war and violence. Gorillas..
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He who pays the piper, may not always call the tune. At least this is what astounding news released Wednesday June 30th, by IPEA (Applied Economic Research Institute -...
made popular Jul 3 2009
On July 13, the Latin America Initiative at Brookings will host a discussion on the recently released book, Brazil as an Economic Superpower? Understanding Brazil’s...
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This campaign for jangadeiro, Developed by Advanced, Fortaleza, Brazil, makes us remember some poignant moments in the past which shocked the world. This campaign, with...
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The concentration of land in Brazil continues to be among the highest in the world. In the past few years, the agro-exporter model, based in agribusiness, not only...
made popular Jun 29 2009
After weeks of searching and 51 bodies found, the Brazilian military has called off the search for Air France Flight 447, which crashed over the Atlantic on June 1,...
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Only two letters separate “pre-salt” from “pre-school,” but between these two options is an immense separation for the future of Brazil. Diverse...
made popular Jun 23 2009
Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive destruction of the...
made popular Jun 22 2009
Israel is ever more desperate for people to like it. The Zionist state behaves, as the Angry Arab explains, like a loser kid in high school who is begging to tag along...
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Nations distinguish themselves by gestures large and small. In the coming weeks, Brazil will define itself to the United States and to the wider international community...
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A few days ago, I was returning home from a friend of mine here in my city and, to my surprise, a company donated a land and made that area a public garden space.
I...
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Luis Carlos da Silva is helping construct a 10-foot cinder-block wall around Dona Marta, the slum he calls home.
He is paid $90 a week by a contractor hired by the...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Cutting down Amazon forest for cattle and soy does not bring long-term economic progress, researchers say.
A study of 286 Amazon municipalities found that...
made popular Jun 12 2009
Sunday, an Airbus of Air France that left the Rio toward Paris disappeared over the ocean. The Flight AF 447 carrying 228 people, including crew and passengers. Most of...
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Did Air France flight AF-447 that took off from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil for Paris hit the Bermuda Triangle? If not, how do we explain the mysterious disappearance of...
made popular Jun 2 2009
Raging torrents from a ruptured dam swamped a rural Brazilian city Thursday, forcing residents to scramble onto rooftops and climb high trees to escape the deadly...
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Walls are going up around the hillside slums of Rio de Janeiro, further dividing a city already separated between rich and poor.
Beneath the gaze of the statue of...
made popular May 26 2009
China and Brazil’s proposal to abandon the dollar for bilateral trade and use yuan and reais instead is “pure idle talk,” former Brazilian central bank President...
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In the 1960s, during the military dictatorship, Dilma Rousseff, 61, participated in the armed struggle against the dictatorship, operating in clandestine and terrorist...
made popular May 21 2009
Recently there was the meeting for the G20, in a nutshell, look for solutions to the global economic crisis. However, everyone knows that the recovery of the economy...
made popular May 19 2009
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet”, rightly said by Albert...
made popular May 16 2009
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Cutting down Amazon forest for cattle and soy does not bring long-term economic progress, researchers say.
A study of 286 Amazon municipalities found that...
made popular Jun 12 2009
Definition – Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its...
made popular Jun 10 2009
Eco Factor: Anti-desertification device containing seeds to be airdropped on deforested places.
Inspired by the legend that states that after the Second World War,...
made popular May 11 2009
7 blunders on which mankind should have been ashamed in place of being proud as they did.
No one knows how History is going to judge their acts, but some acts...
made popular Mar 26 2009
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Deforestation in the Amazon dropped sharply in late 2008, a Brazilian environmental group said Friday. The government credited improved law enforcement, but...
made popular Jan 23 2009
After more than 48 hours of continual rain, Peshawar received a faint streak of sunlight, peeking at the citizens through the gray clouds that still cover most part of...
made popular Dec 22 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
Brazil plans to boost spending and programs to significantly slow destruction of the Amazon rain forest by 2017, aiming to reduce global warming by slashing the amount...
made popular Dec 2 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
Destruction of Brazil’s vast Amazon rain forest appeared to accelerate slightly over the past year after slowing since 2004, the government said on Friday.
made popular Nov 29 2008
‘Uncontacted tribes may disappear in three years’
Indigenous people are the key to rain forest conservation. The rainforests have been inhabited by various...
made popular Nov 7 2008
‘Pay indigenous people to protect forests’
Tropical forests have been inhabited by humans for thousands of years and human activities on a traditional scale may...
made popular Oct 18 2008
The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.
made popular Oct 10 2008
We are facing crises of freshwater, food, deforestation, and ocean health. We need leadership in the protection of all our natural resources.
made popular Oct 6 2008
According to the Environment Ministry, a Brazilian government institute that distributes land to the poor, is fueling the destruction of Amazon. And private land owners...
made popular Oct 4 2008
A massive increase in deforestation has put two branches of the Brazilian government on collision course
made popular Oct 3 2008
This is a very important topic, not many of us discus, or even think about. The word animal is a very vague and general word. By animals I do not mean a particular...
made popular Sep 11 2008
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According to a latest review, 48% of primate species face extinction. Illegal hunting, deforestation and habitat loss will soon wipe out primates. The picture is quite...
made popular Aug 5 2008
Food and fuel scarcity is rising high day-by-day. There is a vast gap between the demand and supply of these necessary products. We need an urgent balance to check the...
made popular Jul 15 2008
The great apes, namely the gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and the orangutans are our closest genetic relatives. But that didn’t stop us from slaughtering them as...
made popular Jul 8 2008
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