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Commercial vans with their added payload could serve as a great pollutant beating any medium cars to it. So one way to overcome that is the use of the Modec Vans. Manufactured by Modec, a UK company it runs on electric which can provide a range of more...
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The Amazon is being deforested more than three times as fast as last year, Brazilian officials said Monday, acknowledging a sharp reversal after three years of declines...
made popular Sep 30 2008
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Brazilian officials say the Amazon is being deforested more than twice as fast as last year.
made popular Sep 29 2008
AP, Rio De Janeiro
A former model and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after being identified as John McCain’s lover 51 years ago.
made popular Sep 22 2008
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Brazilian police carried out a “significant proportion” of the 48,000 murders that swept Brazil last year, according to a U.N. report released Monday,...
made popular Sep 16 2008
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Amazon deforestation jumped 69 percent in the past 12 months _ the first such increase in three years _ as rising demand for soy and cattle pushes farmers and ranchers...
made popular Aug 30 2008
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Brazil will spend US$160 million by the end of next year on the development of a nuclear-propelled submarine to protect the oil reserves found recently off its coast,...
made popular Aug 29 2008
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More than 200 oil-slicked penguins have washed up dead on the beaches of a popular Brazilian resort, and officials say they are searching for a cause.
made popular Aug 28 2008
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The Japanese firm Modec said Tuesday that it won a contract with Petrobras to build a floating production and storage facility that will drill for oil off the coast of...
made popular Aug 27 2008
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The president of Brazil’s state-run oil company says the United States must exploit offshore resources while limiting environmental impact.
made popular Aug 22 2008
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Brazil says unemployment rose to 8.1 percent in July, reversing a five-month decline.
made popular Aug 21 2008
The biggest rivalry that exists between the Brazilians is between paulistas (born in the state of Sao Paulo) and cariocas (born in the state of Rio de Janeiro). When...
made popular Aug 19 2008
AP, Rio De Janeiro
Oil exploration in the Amazon rain forest represents the latest, perhaps greatest, threat to preserving what remains of the world’s largest remaining tropical...
made popular Aug 13 2008
A new form of violence has emerged and that is bringing panic to the carriers of HIV in Rio de Janeiro.
When the bandits discover that someone is carrying the HIV...
made popular Aug 9 2008
AP, Rio De Janeiro
Two men convicted in the 2005 killing of American nun and rainforest defender Dorothy Stang will be allowed to spend Brazilian Fathers’ day at home, court...
made popular Aug 7 2008
This is not an article of mine, I just translated it from http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/cotidiano/ult95u427864.shtml
Against misuse of organs, Health decided to...
made popular Jul 31 2008
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Brazil’s airport workers union is threatening to start a general strike at midnight Tuesday to demand a 10.56 percent wage increase and other benefits.
made popular Jul 29 2008
An unusual number of dead and live penguins, most of them young ones, have been washed ashore on the beaches of Rio De Janeiro in Brazil, more than 3,500 kilometers...
made popular Jul 22 2008
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A Brazilian government laboratory said Monday it will begin producing child-sized doses of a drug commonly used to treat Chagas disease, which kills thousands of people...
made popular Jul 21 2008
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Brazilian police say at least eight alleged drug traffickers were killed during a raid in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown.A Rio de Janeiro state police spokeswoman says...
made popular Jul 18 2008
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Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro’s tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin...
made popular Jul 18 2008
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The Japanese firm Modec said Tuesday that it won a contract with Petrobras to build a floating production and storage facility that will drill for oil off the coast of...
made popular Aug 27 2008
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