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Deadly mudslides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, photo by Alicia Nijdam (source: Flickr Creative Commons) According to a BBC News report around 50 people have died in mudslides brought on by heavy rains in...
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Worst Rains in Rio de Janeiro History Take 95 Lives; 44 More Hospitalized
Image Source: Flickr. By: Globovision. The worst rain in Rio de Janeiro’s history took 95 lives yesterday. In less than 24 hours, the city saw 11 inches (29 cm) of rainfall and more is expected to...
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Update: Death Toll Rises in Rio, More Feared Dead from Mudslides
Image Source: Flickr. By: Globovision.The death toll from the flooding and landslides that swept through Rio de Janeiro has risen to 153 and at least 200 more are feared to be dead. The 200 other...
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Videos of flood aftermath in Rio de Janeiro highlight Brazil’s rich-poor divide
destruction in Niterói; photo from Globovisión (source: Flickr Creative Commons) Heavy rains in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro resulted in flooding and mudslides, killing perhaps hundreds of...
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Update: Rio Death Toll Now Over 200, More Feared Dead
Image Source: Flickr. By: Globovision.A deadly combination of rain, flooding and mudslides has washed away the homes, lives, and hopes of many Rio de Janeiro citizens this week. Death tolls climbed to...
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Rio de Janeiro’s Death Toll Climbs to 246; Nearly 200 Still Missing
Image Source: Flickr. By: Eflon.Rio’s death toll keeps climbing higher as more bodies are recovered from mudslides that devastated the city last week. Currently, the toll stands at 246%
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Oil news: The fight over offshore crude in the US and Brazil
photo from Divulgação Petrobras/Agência Brasil (source: Wikimedia Commons) When US President Barack Obama opened up large areas of America’s Atlantic coastline to new oil drilling two weeks ago, some...
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Ten year-old oil spill in Brazil may provide clues for the future of Gulf...
photo by Angela Meurer (anginhamm; Flickr Creative Commons) In 2000 a massive oil leak from an underwater Petrobras pipeline spilled into Guanabara Bay near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is considered one...
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Is the biodiversity summit in Nagoya bound to fail?
You may not know this, but since the 1970’s, more than 40 percent of the earth’s species (plants and animals alike) disappeared from the face of our planet. So when the UN declared 2010 the...
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Rio+20=Earth Summit 2012 in Brazil
photo by Feres Caioba (Caio on Flickr CC) The world is facing a mounting crisis. In recent years we have experienced a combination of a global financial crisis, a food crisis, volatile oil prices,...
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