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Does global battle against hunger have a new hero? - Yahoo! News

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Environmental Activist Killed And Mutilated

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Tales Azzoni - May. 25 (News Report) - An activist fighting to protect the Amazon rain forest from loggers was shot and killed with his wife, Brazilian authorities said Wednesday....

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Brazil Elects Dilma Rousseff, First Female President

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Michael Fox - Nov. 01 (News Report) - Brazil has reached a new milestone with the election of its first-ever female president. On Sunday, Dilma Rousseff defeated rival José Serra with 55 percent in a runoff vote. Rousseff was outgoing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's chosen successor after serving the last five years as his chief of staff. During the 1960s and 1970s, she was involved in the armed struggle against Brazil's military dictatorship. She was imprisoned for nearly three years and tortured. Among her pledges, Rousseff vowed to eradicate chronic poverty in Brazil affecting 20 million people. We talk with Michael Fox, an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker based outside Porto Alegre. "She's a fighter," Fox says.

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Anti-Corruption Law in Effect This Year

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

avaaz.org - By Jaylan Boyle - Jul. 28 (News Report) - Law 9840 prevents candidates who have been convicted of any one of a range of crimes, including electoral fraud, from running for public office. The law passed unanimously through the senate on May 19th, and was ratified by President Luis Inacio da Silva. Last week the law passed a final hurdle when by a vote of six to one the Federal Election Board, which is actually a court composed of judges that has enforceable power, upheld the applicability of the law to October’s elections.

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Wind Energy News - Brazil's Wind Energy Potential

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

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Amazon rainforest will bear cost of biofuel policies in Brazil

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

news.mongabay.com - By Rhett A. Butler - Feb. 08 (Special Report) - "Indirect land-use change could considerably compromise the GHG savings from growing biofuels, mainly by pushing rangeland frontier into the Amazon forest and Brazilian Cerrado savanna," Lapola and colleagues write. "In our simulations, there is an expansion of 121,970 sq km of rangeland into forest areas, and 46,000 sq km into other native habitats, due to the expansion of biofuel croplands."

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Rain Forests to Headline at Poznan

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Green Grok - By Bill Chameides - Dec. 04 (Special Report) - Tropical rain forests -- a treasure trove of biodiversity that contributes to a wide range of valuable products including medicines -- store huge reservoirs of carbon. But in the rush to ramp up agricultural output, tropical rain forests are being cut down and burned at a rate of 32 million acres (roughly the size of England) per year. When forests are chopped and burned, their carbon is released into the atmosphere as CO2. Amazingly – and disturbingly – tropical rain forest destruction accounts for about one fifth of the total global CO2 emissions.

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General Motors to Invest $1 Billion in Brazil Operations

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

laht.com - By Russ Dallen - Nov. 25 (News Report) - General Motors (GM) plans to invest $1 billion in Brazil to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market, said the beleaguered car maker. According to the president of GM Brazil-Mercosur, Jaime Ardila, the funding will come from the package of financial aid that the manufacturer will receive from the U.S. government and will be used to "complete the renovation of the line of products up to 2012."

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