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October 2008
- Baffled Brazilians Rescue Wayward Penguins
  
  Washington Post | 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 birds. Many Brazilians have leapt to their rescue, reports the Washington Post. More »
August 2008
- Booming Brazil Nabs A-List Ad Campaigns
  
  Bloomberg | 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 Brazil's booming currency—the real has been the biggest gainer of the world's most traded currencies for 4 years straight. More »
July 2008
- As World Economies Falter, Brazil Sambas
  
  New York Times | 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 its place as a major economic player, reports the New York Times . More »
- Hundreds of Penguins Found Dead in Rio
  
  Associated Press | 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 sudden flood is stumping experts. More »
- Forget Stocks: Invest in Soccer
  
  New York Times | 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, the investors then cash in, explains the New York Times. More »
- China, India Reject G8 Carbon Plan
  
  Financial Times (UK) | Jul 9, 08 8:40 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Neither China nor India agreed to adopt the G8's targets for cutting carbon emissions by 2050 at their joint meeting today. Asia's two big developing economies, joined by Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa, said carbon reductions would endanger their growth and exacerbate poverty, and that rich nations should clean up the mess they had created. The emerging economies' holdout was only one of many signs that the G8 is losing clout, reports the Financial Times. More »
June 2008
- Axis of Wealth Shifting East
  
  Wall Street Journal | 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, reports the Wall Street Journal . More »
- Half of Amazon Could Be Gone in 20 Years
  
  Yale Environment 360 | 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 clearing doubled in the latter part of 2007 to help feed the insatiable demand of the growing economies in China, India, Russia, and elsewhere. More »
- Brazil Thieves Nab 2 Picassos
  
  Reuters | 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 Suzanne Bloch painting from a different city museum. More »
May 2008
- First Contact With Amazon Tribe
  
  BBC | 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 the world's 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru. Brazil's government took the photos as part of a push to protect the tribes. More »
- Low-Income Buyers Make Brazil 5th-Biggest PC Market
  
  Bloomberg | May 21, 08 7:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Brazilian consumers are putting better credit offers and growing wealth into computers, and HP and Dell are the beneficiaries. The country is now the 5th-biggest PC market in the world, and low-income buyers are fueling the boom there. Computer shipments rose 38% last year to 10.7 million, Bloomberg reports, as overall purchases passed TVs for the first time ever. More »
- 15 Dead in Brazil Ferry Accident
  
  Associated Press | May 5, 08 3:04 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A ferry taking passengers home from a nighttime party capsized yesterday in Brazil, killing at least 15 people, AP reports. Dozens more were missing in the Solimoes River, one of the Amazon's largest tributaries. Most of those killed were women. Some passengers swam to shore and others were picked up by nearby boats. The ferry, which was carrying at least 80 people, was grounded earlier this year after failing an inspection. More »
April 2008
- Party-Balloon Aeronaut Priest Missing in Brazil
  
  Associated Press | Apr 22, 08 3:55 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Rescuers in boats and helicopters are searching off the coast of Brazil for a priest who vanished while trying to set a world record for the longest flight with helium-filled party balloons, AP reports. The priest took off from the northeastern city of Paranagua in a chair with hundreds of balloons attached. He was last heard from 30 miles offshore. More »
- Brazil's Condoms Go Tropical
  
  BBC | Apr 8, 08 6:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Brazil buys more condoms and boasts more rainforest than any other country; now officials hope to connect the dots, the BBC reports. The government will use rubber from Amazon trees to make 100 million condoms a year, given out freely as part of the country's anti-AIDS program. Rubber can be obtained without destroying trees and is widely available. More »
March 2008
- Brazil Targets Amazon Loggers
  
  Washington Post | Mar 21, 08 9:33 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Brazil is launching a new crackdown against the loggers who are destroying the Amazon rainforest at alarming rates, the Washington Post reports. After several years of decline, deforestation is surging as cattle ranchers clear land and loggers cut down trees for charcoal to fuel steel mills abroad. But Brazil will have to find another way for the region's people to make a living; in some towns, 70% of citizens work in the logging industry. More »
February 2008
- Nine Dead, 10 Missing in Amazon Boat Wreck
  
  Associated Press | Feb 21, 08 1:59 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Nine people died, and 10 more are missing and feared dead after a ferry in Brazil sank this morning after colliding with a barge on the Amazon River, the AP reports. Authorities, who rescued 92 passengers near the town of Itacoatiara, say "visibility was very poor" at the time of the accident due to the lunar eclipse.

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Baffled Brazilians Rescue Wayward Penguins

Booming Brazil Nabs A-List Ad Campaigns

As World Economies Falter, Brazil Sambas

Hundreds of Penguins Found Dead in Rio

Forget Stocks: Invest in Soccer

China, India Reject G8 Carbon Plan

Axis of Wealth Shifting East

Half of Amazon Could Be Gone in 20 Years

Brazil Thieves Nab 2 Picassos

First Contact With Amazon Tribe

Low-Income Buyers Make Brazil 5th-Biggest PC Market

15 Dead in Brazil Ferry Accident

Party-Balloon Aeronaut Priest Missing in Brazil

Brazil's Condoms Go Tropical

Brazil Targets Amazon Loggers

Nine Dead, 10 Missing in Amazon Boat Wreck