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UPDATE 3-Fire destroys sugar warehouse at Brazil's Santos Port
2014-10-20 18:48:36| Food - Topix.net
A blaze destroyed a sugar warehouse operated by Cargill Inc and Biosev at Brazil's Santos port, the largest in Latin America, early on Monday, the third major fire at a sugar export terminal there over the last year. Firefighters had the blaze under control in warehouse 3 and kept it from spreading to a nearby grains warehouse, according to a spokesman for Codesp, the port authority.
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Despite Export Surge to Russia, Brazils Pork Production, Overall Exports Fairly Flat
2014-10-20 15:40:00| National Hog Farmer
By U.S. Meat Export Federation Staff Brazil trails only the European Union, the United States and Canada in pork exports, but its fourth place is a distant one, with last years exports totaling 509,773 metric tons, less than half of Canadas 2013 exports. U.S. pork exports are nearly four times Brazils and the EUs exports are about five times greater. read more
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Brazil's Light Unveils Large Smart Grid Partnership In South America
2014-10-15 18:32:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Brazilian electricity utility Light has announced the formal agreement of the largest smart grid project in South American history, in partnership with Landis+Gyr. read more
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Drought plagues Brazils richest metropolis
2014-10-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Agricultural losses are no longer the most visible effect of the drought plaguing Brazil's most developed region. Now the energy crisis and the threat of water shortages in the city of So Paulo are painful reminders of just how dependent Brazilians are on regular rainfall. Nine million of the 21 million inhabitants of Greater So Paulo are waiting for the completion of the upgrading of the Cantareira system, made up of six reservoirs linked by 48 km of tunnels and canals, which can no longer...
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Due to landscape fragmentation, Brazil's rainforests are releasing more carbon dioxide
2014-10-07 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Because of the deforestation of tropical rainforests in Brazil, significantly more carbon has been lost than was previously assumed. As scientists of the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) write in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the effect of the degradation has been underestimated in fragmented forest areas, since it was hitherto not possible to calculate the loss of the biomass at the forest edges and the higher emission of carbon dioxide. The UFZ scientists have now...
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