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Brazil land disputes spread as Indians take on wildcat miners
2014-02-17 11:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As Brazil struggles to solve land disputes between Indians and farmers on the expanding frontier of its agricultural heartland, more tensions over forest and mineral resources are brewing in the remote Amazon. The government of President Dilma Rousseff gave eviction notices to hundreds of non-Indian families in the Awá-Guajá reserve in Maranho state in January and plans to relocate them by April, with the help of the army if necessary, Indian affairs agency Funai says. The court order to clear...
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Drought in Brazil biggest disaster you've probably never heard of
2014-02-15 04:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: Northeastern Brazil's two-year drought is written in textures. The brittle puff of a desiccated cactus. The greasy leather of a cow carcasses' neck, still stretched out for a drink. And the hot hiss of rain, falling for the first time in two years on a parched bean field: too little, too late. The drought, Brazil's worst in decades, is a catastrophe. In economic terms, it was the fourth-worst natural disaster to hit the planet last year, costlier than even the western United States drought,...
CP Kelco Expands in Brazil
2014-02-14 06:00:00| Happi Breaking News
Said to increase capacity by 30% at the site.
Brazil water project, long delayed, gets election year boost
2014-02-10 04:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In 2006, then President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, a native of Brazil's historically drought-plagued northeast, pushed through an idea that long-suffering residents of the region had been hearing about for more than a century. At last, he promised, Brazil would channel water to the sun-baked region from the So Francisco, the country's second-longest river. By 2010, he said, water would be pumped over hills and into a 477 kilometer-long network of canals, aqueducts and reservoirs to quench thirsty...
Brazil January Car Sales Up Amid Slump: Daily
2014-02-08 10:54:37| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Despite a staggering decline in car sales at the end of last year, January represented the strongest month of its kind, breaking a nationwide record for the number of car sales during what is usually a gloomy month for the automotive market.
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