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The NHS is close to collapse – could a radical scheme from Brazil’s favelas save it?
Entering the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, the taxi driver’s warning is stark: “Some of the favelas are so dangerous, even the ...
Wall Street Journal3d
Amazon Protests Threaten Brazil’s Plans To Gain from Tariff War
Trucks line up amid protests that block Brazil's BR 230 national highway. (Coletivo audiovisual Da'uk Frank akay Munduruku/Reuters) Protests by indigenous tribes in the Amazon are blocking one of ...
Mongabay News on MSN13h
Jaguar tourism in Brazil’s Pantanal needs new rules to avoid collapse: Study
By Shanna Hanbury Jaguar tourism in Porto Jofre, a remote outpost in the Pantanal wetlands of western Brazil, has become so ...
ABC News28d
Satellite appears to show new highway cutting through Brazil's Amazon rainforest
In northwest Brazil, officials are aiming to pave a 560-mile road connecting the Amazon-adjacent states of Amazonas and Roraima to the rest of the country. The highway, BR-319, is currently mostly ...
Climate Home News6d
The Amazon rainforest emerges as the new global oil frontier
Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...