Sustainable Pulse Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:13 CDT Civil society groups today expressed alarm at an increase in dengue incidence, leading to an emergency decree, in a town in Brazil where releases of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes are taking place…. Read More ›
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Brazil to Fight Dengue with GM Mosquitos
// // // © RIA Novosti. Oleg Lastochkin 09:01 24/07/2014 MOSCOW, July 23 (RIA Novosti) – Brazil is going to raise a swarm of genetically modified mosquitos to fight dengue, an acute tropical disease that affects over 50 million people… Read More ›
BRICS sets up own Bank to counter IMF
Tuesday, 15 July 2014 The group of emerging economies signed the long-anticipated document to create the $100 bn BRICS Development Bank and a reserve currency pool worth over another $100 bn. Both will counter the influence of US based… Read More ›
World on the brink of ‘sixth great extinction’ as plants, animals dying out faster than ever
Many animal species are finding places to live scarcer with the encroachment by altered by humans PUBLISHED : Friday, 30 May, 2014, 5:50pm Associated Press in Washington World on the brink of ‘sixth great extinction’ as plants, animals dying out… Read More ›
‘Don’t scream when you’re being robbed’, Brazil police tell World Cup fans
PUBLISHED : Monday, 12 May, 2014, 3:12am Brazilian police will distribute pamphlets to World Cup visitors advising them not to argue or scream when being robbed. The campaign was designed by the head of the committee created by police in… Read More ›
China to become world largest economy in 15 years: research report
(Xinhua) 09:18, December 27, 2013 LONDON, Dec. 26 — China is expected to overtake the United States in 2028 to become the world’s largest economy, according to a research report released Thursday.
NSA Accessed Mexican President’s Email
By Jens Glüsing, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. It hacked into the president’s public email account and gained deep insight into policymaking and the political system…. Read More ›
Peru to revive UFO division
© Photo: SXC.hu A department of the Peruvian air force which did research into anomalous aerial phenomena, meaning UFO sightings, is being revived by the government of Peru. For people “who observe seemingly unconventional phenomena, which cause surprise or concern,… Read More ›
Brazilian president fuming after finding out NSA read her emails
Thursday, 05 September 2013 Revelations of a U.S. spy program that allegedly allows digital surveillance of the presidents of Brazil and Mexico have drawn cries of indignation and anger in both nations, but the fallout may be strongest for U.S.-Brazil… Read More ›
NSA spied on Brazilian and Mexican presidents – media
©Photo: Flickr.com/Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)/cc-by-nc-sa 3.0 US National Security Agency spied on the communications of the Brazilian and Mexican presidents, accessing the Mexico leader’s emails even before he was elected, Brazil’s Globo television reported. Glenn Greenwald, a Rio de… Read More ›
The natural world, photographed by Sebastião Salgado – sponsored by one of the world’s worst polluters
Natural History Museum under fire for accepting cash from mining giant Gavin Haines Wednesday, 17 July 2013 The acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado says his images currently on display at the Natural History Museum seek to depict the “stunning mosaic of… Read More ›
Brazil protests: riot police scatter crowds in Rio : estimates of 2 million people on the streets
Clashes in several other cities, with estimates of 2 million people on the streets Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 June 2013 00.35 EDT Bonfires lit by demonstrators in Rio. Photograph: Reuters The streets of central… Read More ›
Crowd of 30,000 overruns police cordon ahead of Brazil football match (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Published time: June 19, 2013 22:34 Edited time: June 20, 2013 00:07 Anti-riot police officers carry a wounded demonstrator as clashes erupt in Fortaleza on June 19, 2013.(AFP Photo / Yuri Cortez) Violent clashes have erupted in the… Read More ›
Organic tomatoes accumulate more vitamin C, sugars than conventionally grown fruit
Contact: Souri Somphanith onepress@plos.org 41-562-412-17199 Public Library of Science Biochemical properties of organic tomatoes may be different because of stressful growth conditions Tomatoes grown on organic farms accumulate higher concentrations of sugars, vitamin C and compounds associated with oxidative stress… Read More ›
An arachnophobe’s worst nightmare? It’s ‘raining spiders’ in Brazil
‘Social spider’ species is known for its ‘sheet webs’ James Legge Saturday 09 February 2013 In scenes which will haunt anyone with an aversion our eight-legged friends, hundreds of spiders have begun dangling from telegraph poles in the southern Brazilian… Read More ›
Eli Lilly Coughs Up $29 Million for Bribes: ” As is customary with the SEC, Lilly did not have to admit that it did anything wrong “
WASHINGTON (CN) – Eli Lilly & Co. will pay $29 million to settle charges of bribing foreign officials for contracts in four countries, the SEC said Thursday. Lilly subsidiaries paid off government officials in Russia, Brazil, China and Poland to… Read More ›
Brazilian newspapers give ‘freeloader’ Google News the boot
Published: 21 October, 2012, 13:22 Over 100 of Brazil’s main newspapers have blocked internet giant Google’s news service from using their content. They say Google News has actually reduced their site traffic and benefits commercially from material it has refused… Read More ›
Moderator Notes (Future Plans)
Since this blogs inception since late July 2012, the NET has been very, very kind. We have linked incredibly well. Been extemely fortunate in not attracting any trolls. As well as being able to hit on articles that are relative… Read More ›
Brazilian city council candidate passes out cocaine in exchange for votes
Posted By Annie Z. Yu On 1:54 AM 10/10/2012 @ 1:54 AM A woman running for a city council position in Brazil, the world’s second-largest consumer of cocaine, was arrested on Sunday — election day — after allegedly handing out… Read More ›
Amazon tribe massacre alleged in Venezuela
Village of 80 people was firebombed from the air, say activists, by illegal gold miners based in neighbouring Brazil Virginia Lopez in Caracas and agencie guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 August 2012 21.13 EDT A massacre has taken place of Yanomami… Read More ›
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