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CLIMATE CHANGE-BRAZIL: Towards Carbon-Free Chimneys

CLIMATE CHANGE-BRAZIL: BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil, Nov 10 (Tierramérica) - Scientists in Brazil are developing a technique for absorbing industry-produced carbon dioxide before it ever reaches the atmosphere. The secret lies in half-centimetre ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Santos, Ltd.

BRAZIL: Leading Ladies Give Gender Slant to Campaign

BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 9 (IPS) - With the possible participation of three high-profile women candidates in Brazil's 2010 presidential elections, the irruption of gender issues in the campaign in Latin America's largest democracy seems ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dilma Rousseff,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  U.S. Green Party,  U.S. Congress,  Wikipedia

BRAZIL: Five-Star Garbage

BRAZIL: BARRA MANSA, Brazil, Oct 31 (Tierramérica) - For the past 43 years, biologists Edna and Luiz Toledo have not waited for the garbage truck to collect their trash. Their three-storey house is in fact made out of "garbage", from the ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  31 Oct 2009

BRAZIL: Drugs, Guns, Gangs and Police – a Violent Mix in the 'Favelas'

BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 30 (IPS) - Janaína*, who lives in Jacarezinho, one of the most violent "favelas" or shantytowns in this Brazilian city, describes the control that the "movement" the local drug mafia exercises over the ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

ENERGY-BRAZIL: Putting (Human) Waste to Work

ENERGY-BRAZIL: PETROPOLIS, Brazil, Oct 6 (IPS) - Biodigester technology, which originated in Asia as a natural process for treating sewage waste, is reemerging in Latin America as an integrated system providing cheap energy, improved ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  6 Oct 2009

BRAZIL: Agribusiness Driving Land Concentration

BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 5 (IPS) - The growth of agribusiness in Brazil, with its vast monocultures of soybean or sugarcane, is responsible for the expansion of large estates belonging to fewer and fewer landowners, according to small ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

BRAZIL: Getting Beyond the Taboo to Fight STDs

BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 22 (IPS) - Although Brazil has the reputation of being more sexually liberal than its Spanish-speaking neighbours, Brazilians suffer their own fears of stigma when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  22 Sep 2009

MUSIC: Afro-Brazilians Priced Out of Back2Black Concert

MUSIC: RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 18 (IPS) - On stage, singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil highlighted Brazil's "genetic and cultural" connection to "Mother Africa," to applause from a predominantly light-skinned audience at a concert that black ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Gilberto Gil,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  Mayra Andrade,  Omara Portuondo (musician),  Vale do Rio Doce

BRAZIL: Green Challenges Posed by Black Gold

BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 16 (IPS) - Brazil's discovery of vast offshore oil and natural gas reserves raises the question of how to tap the newfound wealth without causing severe environmental impacts and without leaving aside the ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  16 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  Fernando Gabeira (politician),  U.S. Green Party,  U.S. Congress

BRAZIL: Military Deal with France Strengthens Multipolar Focus

BRAZIL: Analysis by Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 8 (IPS) - With the announcement of a multi-billion-dollar military technology-sharing deal with France, Brazil is projecting itself as a future regional military supplier, while ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  8 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Dassault Aviation,  Boeing,  Saab

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