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Actions In Amazon Rain Forest Contradict Brazil's Promise
2016-02-24 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Brazil is home to more than half of the rain forest and it contributes to carbon pollution. Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Juliana Barbassa about how plans to put a stop to deforestation are going.
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Brazils Senate could soon be voting against the countrys environmental safeguards
2016-02-16 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Tomorrow, Brazils Senate could be voting on a new measure which would speed up the process required to obtain environmental licenses for infrastructure projects. Dubbed as PLS 654/2015, the bill is moving urgently through the Senate, according to the Senate general secretary board. The project would grant the governments executive branch the power to indicate, by decree, which constructions are considered strategic for the sustainable development of the country, by offering them a so-called...
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Brazil's analogue TV switch-off begins
2016-02-15 23:00:36| Digital TV News
The Digital TV Implementation Group (Gired) has announced that Rio Verde is acting as a pilot city for Brazil's switch-over to digital TV, with its analogue channels being switched off by February 29th.
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Brazils sprawling favelas bear brunt Zika
2016-02-07 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With rubber gloves, a plastic container full of larvicide and the official badge of Rio de Janeiros epidemic control department, Gilberto de Souza gains permission to enter the home of a stranger in the Vila Canoas favela, in one of the latest missions against the Zika virus. As the bemused residents look on, he goes room to room inspecting every sink, flower vase and empty bottle, shining his torch behind fridges and washing machines, checking every corner for possible mosquito breeding areas....
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Fears grow amid Brazil's Zika crisis
2016-02-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: An alarming mixture of confusion and fear is blighting the pregnancies of thousands of women across this teeming tropical city in the northeast of Brazil, and wherever else the Zika virus has infected people. Every day the emergency clinic at one of Recife's largest hospitals sees queues of nervous women so long that they reach into the car park, and the medical staff, already stretched, are now overwhelmed. The enemy is uncertainty because the symptoms of Zika infection are worryingly vague:...
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