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Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Brazilian firms that supply Tesco, Asda and Marks & Spencer are among..
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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 -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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
The lush green dense tropical rain forests spread across Africa, Asia and South America may soon be lost from the face of the green planet if ways are not implemented...
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Do you know, filling your car with biofuel is slowly destroying our planet earth? According to Sky New, bio diesel comprises of palm oil has destroyed a whole lot of...
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Humans known for their notorious deeds just to make their selfish ends meet, has been mercilessly and indiscriminately plundering the planet’s resources. Here is...
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Roads pierce the last green heartland of the Amazonian rain forests to make it more accessible even as greedy land grabbers kill the trees at an unprecedented scale....
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Is Costa Rica in essence an Eco destination? The use of Zip wires in rainforest’s is just for fun and not really to view wild life. All the noise of metal...
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The United States will forgive about 20 percent of the US$122 million debt owed by Guatemala so the money can be used to protect threatened plants and wildlife.
It is...
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With tropical and deciduous rainforest, grasslands and scrub forests, montane forests, the Western Ghats in India, is consisted with one of the richest collections of...
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The concern for the destroying tropical rain forests is no new. We all are familiar with several reasons behind it, if not all. But, do you know that the responsible...
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