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 Haiti School Collapse 
 Kills At Least 30 

Poor repair job, not recent rains, doomed building, mayor says

Nov 7, 08 4:21 PM CST
(Newser) - At least 30 people, many possibly children, died in Haiti today when a school building collapsed, AP reports. The school, in a village in the hills above Port-au-Prince, experienced a partial collapse in 2000. Before today, the building was under construction, and the town’s mayor said structural problems, not... More »

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Brazil • Haiti • Chile • school • Red Cross • collapse • Ecuador • Dominican Republic • Doctors Without Borders • engineering • disaster

 Forget Snakes: 
 Penguins Get Their Plane Ride 

Flightless birds fly home with a little help from Brazil

Oct 7, 08 5:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - The wayward penguins marooned on Brazil's beaches got a one-way ticket home over the weekend, but ferrying hundreds of birds 2,000 miles is no simple feat, explains Nina Shen Rastogi in Slate. After being fed and tagged, 399 Magellanic penguins were crated and loaded aboard an Air Force plane... More »

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climate change • Brazil • beach • migration • penguin • airlift

 Baffled Brazilians 
 Rescue Wayward 
 Penguins 

Country's beachgoers grapple with invasion of cute birds from Argentina

Oct 3, 08 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Every year a few Magellanic penguins, native to southern Argentina, accidentally make the 2,000-mile trip to the beaches of Brazil. But this year the influx is looking less like a wayward few and more like an invasion, with sunny beaches overrun by more than 1,000 exhausted and starved... More »

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climate change • Brazil • beach • migration • penguin

Chavez Building Reactor
With Russian Support

Only for 'peaceful purposes,' Chavez insists

Sep 29, 08 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - In his latest challenge to Washington, Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez has announced that his nation is developing a nuclear reactor—with Russian support, Reuters reports. "We are interested in development of nuclear energy, of course for peaceful purposes—for medical purposes, for  electricity," Chavez said yesterday at a... More »

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Russia • Venezuela • Vladimir Putin • Brazil • OPEC • nuclear reactor • Argentina • Hugo Chávez • oil imports

Norway Ponies Up $1B
to Help Save Rainforests

Brazil seeks more donors in fight against deforestation, climate change

Sep 17, 08 8:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brazil’s renewed push to save the rainforest gained support from a far-flung proponent today when oil-rich Norway pledged nearly $1 billion, the BBC reports. “Efforts against deforestation may give us the largest, quickest, and cheapest reductions in greenhouse gas emissions," said Norway's prime minister. "Brazilian efforts... More »

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Brazil • Norway • Amazon rainforest • greenhouse-gas emissions


 Clues Point
 to Rigged
 World Cup
 Match

Asian betting syndicate may have connections to Ghana team

Aug 30, 08 3:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Asian betters may have fixed a World Cup game between Brazil and Ghana 2 years ago, a Canadian reporter says. His research links players on Ghana's team with a Bangkok betting ring that wanted Brazil to win that match—and it did. More »

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World Cup • Brazil • soccer • Bangkok • sports betting • cheating

In Remote Amazon, Complex Towns Once Flourished

Archaeologists see advanced civilization in areas since overtaken by rain forest

Aug 29, 08 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers have unearthed remains of densely populated, complex urban towns in a remote region of the Amazon River Basin, the BBC reports. In an area of western Brazil thought to be virgin forest, researchers found extensive and advanced human activity, including roads, farming, wetland management, and what appear to be... More »

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archaeology • Brazil • rainforest • anthropology • ancient cities • Amazon rainforest

OLYMPICS

 US Women's Soccer Claims Gold

Team beats Brazil 1-0 in extra time

Aug 21, 08 12:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US women’s soccer team claimed Olympic gold today, besting Brazil 1-0 with a goal scored in extra time, the AP reports. Carli Lloyd scored the crucial goal, but goalkeeper Hope Solo was the star of the game, shutting down shot after shot from Brazil’s unrelenting offense. It... More »

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Brazil • soccer • 2008 Beijing Olympics • America • US women's soccer • US Olympic athletes

 Booming Brazil
 Nabs A-List
 Ad Campaigns 

From SJP to Richard Gere, American stars making pitches in Rio

Aug 18, 08 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you want proof that the Brazilian economy is on fire, look no further than the TV ads. While Sarah Jessica Parker professes her love for a Sao Paulo mall, Richard Gere promotes hair care products in dubious Portuguese. What's made the influx of American stars possible, writes Bloomberg, is... More »

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advertising • Richard Gere • Brazil • Sao Paulo • Sarah Jessica Parker • emerging markets • Pierce Brosnan • Brazilian real

 As World Economies
 Falter, Brazil Sambas

New economic powerhouse withstanding tremors

Jul 31, 08 6:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Economies worldwide are stalling, with growth slowing to a trickle and markets seizing up. But in Brazil, long a laggard on the international stage, the economy is growing at the largest rate in three decades. Good government, progressive social programs, and newly discovered resources have allowed Brazil to finally take... More »

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Latin America • Brazil • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • South America • emerging markets • boom economy • BRICs

 Global Trade Talks Collapse

Breakdown halts seven years of progress to hammer out deal

Jul 30, 08 4:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - World Trade Organization talks to forge a new global trade pact collapsed yesterday after seven years of negotiations. An EU spokesman called the breakdown a "massive blow to the confidence in the global economy." The talks fell apart as China and India demanded the authortity to impose "... More »

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China • India • Brazil • tariffs • Geneva • Globalization • free trade • Max Baucus • free trade agreements • World Trade Organization. • subsidies • global food crisis • Susan Schwab • Doha Round • William J. Bernstein • Pascal Lamy

 Ballooning Priest's Body Found

Charity stunt went tragically wrong

Jul 30, 08 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - DNA tests have confirmed that a body found earlier this month off the coast of Brazil is that of a Catholic priest who tried to set a flight record strapped to 1,000 helium balloons. Father Adelir Antonio de Carli, 41, set off  from the Brazilian port of Paranagua in... More »

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Brazil • DNA • Father Adelir Antonio de Carli • Catholic priest

 Hundreds of
 Penguins Found
 Dead in Rio 

Cause of influx mysterious

Jul 19, 08 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - More than 400 penguins, most of them only babies, have been found dead on the tropical beaches of Rio de Janeiro over the past 2 months—an unusual and as-yet unexplained phenomenon, the AP reports. While Brazil’s beaches are no stranger to the occasional penguin—dead or otherwise—the... More »

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global warming • Brazil • penguin

 Forget Stocks: Invest in Soccer 

Brazilian companies bank on young talent

Jul 19, 08 8:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - The hottest new commodity in Brazil is its soccer stars, and investors are taking note. Companies like Traffic are buying up the contracts of the next wave of potential Ronaldinhos and then lending their acquisitions out to poor but visible Brazilian teams. When European leagues come knocking with huge offers,... More »

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investors • Brazil • soccer • FIFA • sports contracts

 Quest on for Chocolate Genome 

Mars aims to unlock genetic code to develop hardier cacao trees

Jun 26, 08 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Candy giant Mars is investing $10 million in a 5-year research project to unlock the secrets of chocolate's genetic code—the cocoa genome—as the first stage in developing cacao trees that can produce more, survive droughts, and combat disease. Mars intends to make the results public to stop key... More »

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drought • Mars • West Africa • Brazil • IBM • genome • chocolate • Department of Agriculture • cacao • cocoa • Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture

 Axis of Wealth Shifting East 

India, China claim biggest surge in new millionaires

Jun 25, 08 2:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nations once known for extremes of poverty—China, India and Brazil—are now producing more of the world's millionaires and super rich than ever before, according to a new study of the globe's wealthiest entrepreneurs. The US is losing ground to emerging markets when it comes to producing personal wealth,... More »

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China • Russia • India • Brazil • poverty • millionaires • emerging markets • World Wealth Report

opinion

Half of Amazon Could Be Gone in 20 Years

Lust for beef, ethanol drives deforestation; nations must act now

Jun 19, 08 6:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - An "unprecedented" combination of ills is threatening the Amazon, and if nothing is done to ease the pressure on the world’s largest rainforest, more than half of it could be gone or withered in 20 years, Rhett Butler writes for Yale Environment 360. After a three-year decline, forest... More »

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agriculture • greenhouse gases • global warming • Brazil • deforestation • logging • cattle industry • Amazon rainforest

 Brazil Thieves Nab 2 Picassos  

Second time in weeks that Sao Paulo criminals have stolen Pablo's work

Jun 12, 08 7:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Picasso remains the artist of choice for the criminal elite of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Three armed robbers made off with two of his prints—The Painter and the Model and Minotaur, Drinker and Women—from a city museum today, Reuters reports. The robbery comes just weeks after thieves nabbed Picasso's ... More »

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art • Brazil • Sao Paulo • Pablo Picasso • art heist

Four Nations Fight Microsoft Doc Standard

Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa and India target format

Jun 10, 08 3:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four nations have appealed to stop the fast-track adoption of Microsoft’s Office Open XML file format as an international standard, a world standards body announced yesterday. Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa and India have all appealed. The exact reason is unknown, but many have complained that the March vote to... More »

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Microsoft • Venezuela • India • Brazil • South Africa • Open XML • International Organization for Standardization • OOXML

 First Contact With Amazon Tribe 

Warriors aim arrows at aircraft

May 30, 08 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of the last remaining Amazon tribal communities yet to have contact with the outside world has been photographed from the air, reports the BBC. The photos show startled, red-painted tribesmen aiming arrows at the aircraft overhead. Members live in thatched huts near Brazil's remote Peruvian border. More than half... More »

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Brazil • Peru • tribes • Amazon rainforest • Survival International • indigenous peoples • Stephen Corry

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