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Sao Paulo moves to end area known as Crackland as residents scatter and cry foul against police
Sao Paulo authorities are trying out a full-on approach to end the infamous Crackland area, which experts say could lead to ...
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Brazil advances with plan to drill oil at the mouth of the Amazon River
Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a key step that could soon allow Petrobras, the nation’s state oil company, to ...
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Reproductive biology and habitat characterization of the Scorpion Mud Turtle Kinosternon scorpioides (Linnaeus, 1766) in the Amazon-Cerrado ecotone region, northeastern Brazil
Biologia reprodutiva e caracterização do habitat da tartaruga-escorpião Kinosternon scorpioides (Linnaeus, 1766) na região do ecótono Amazônia-Cerrado, nordeste do Brasil ... of water (Berry et al., ...
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Cerrado ground-dwelling ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as indicators of edge effects
Large-scale agricultural production in Brazil preferentially occupies plateaus reclaimed from areas originally covered by Cerrado (savanna ... According to Embrapa soil maps (Jacomine 1986), the ...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
The selection was curated by AP photographer Juan Karita, based in La Paz, Bolivia. Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images ...
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Brazil & China move ahead on 3,000-km railway crossing the Amazon
By Shanna Hanbury Plans to build a railway that would slice South America from east to west, crossing part of the Amazon ...
The Pantanal wetland is Brazil's jaguar country—and a wildlife photographer's dream
The world's largest wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal is home to around 5,000 jaguars and is the best place on earth to see the ...
Explore the Pantanal, Brazil's jaguar country, in photos
The world's largest wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal is home to around 5,000 jaguars and is the best place on earth to see the ...