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A UCSD biologist studies hippos, descendants of those that escaped a drug lord's zoo, that are prospering in Colombia's countryside, for better or worse.
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Brazil's National Museum once held thousands of years of heritage. Now all that's left of Latin America's largest natural history museum, once home to 20 million artifacts, is smoldering debris. Nick Schifrin reports how the tragedy has also drawn anger at the government.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We are used to the Hoover quote about the measure of a society being how well we protect our innocent, defenseless members of our society: the young, old, and infirm. Perhaps we need to add in "our history" or "our legacy" to this term. See also:
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Brazil is in the midst of a hydropower construction boom that is inundating large areas of rainforest and driving indigenous people from their lands — all while failing to fully develop the country’s vast potential for solar and wind energy.
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"Failure to take pressure off the Galápagos’ flora and fauna could kill the booby that laid the golden egg: Of the seven animal species that tourists rank most important to their visit—tortoises, sea turtles, marine and land iguanas, penguins, blue-footed boobies, and sea lions—all are expected to decline because of climate change, according to a… Via Garry Rogers
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May 28, 2017 3:01 PM
This beautifully illustrated story gives details on a number of species being harmed by climate change. All animals must struggle to survive. Now, with human-caused global warming, their struggle is becoming more difficult. Deaths are increasing, and extinction has appeared on the horizon.
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More than a thousand feet below the surface, the ocean floor seemed to come alive before the eyes - and cameras - of a team of scientists.
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Cool video.
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Lima, Mar 17 (Prensa Latina) The 4th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves, whose objective is to review the implementation of the Madrid Action Plan for Biosphere Reserves 2008-2013, comes to an end today with the signing of the Lima Declaration.
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In an ethnically diverse country, the extent that people live in affluent, white-only clusters goes far beyond what he ever imagined.
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ake a stroll around the Zona Sul — South Zone — of Rio de Janeiro and you’ll see some of Brazil’s finest beaches, its most iconic views and its fanciest real estate. You’ll also see a lot of white people. A heck of a lot, considering that less than half of all Brazilians identify as white. Yet white folks occupy 80 percent of Rio’s ritzy beachside, according to a striking new map created by a Brazilian geography student.
“80 percent!” exclaims Hugo Nicolau Barbosa de Gusmão, the twentysomething who mined national census data to map out Rio’s racial makeup. “I knew it would be high,” he tells GlobalPost, “but I didn’t think it would be that stark.”
Stark it is. His maps picture a city where whites dominate the most prestigious neighborhoods and members of other racial groups — the majority nationwide, but a minority here — cluster together in small spots. In a country where policymakers too often deny seeing color, here are the color lines, drawn.
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Oil and gas access roads in western Amazon could open up ‘Pandora’s box’ of environmental impacts Oil and gas roads are encroaching deeper into the western Amazon, one of the world’s last wildernesses and biodiversity hotspots, according to a new... Via Garry Rogers
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While not new, this is still concerning. More and more roads = more and more fragmentation = less and less intact forest.
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Blue whales and dolphins spending summers off the coast of southern Chile will be shielded by a new marine protected area (MPA), the largest ever established in the South American nation.
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When the World Wildlife Fund’s Global Toxic Program visited in 2005, they found only four swans in the sanctuary from what was estimated to have been 4,000 previously. What had caused it? Autopsies... Via AimForGood
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Day and night, rescue workers wade and crawl through the iron ore sludge, which is up to 24 feet deep in places.
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A huge fire engulfed Brazil's 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, lighting up the night sky with towering flames as firefighters and museum workers raced to save historical relics from the blaze.
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A hug loss for natural history and cultural history.
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Report reveals improvement but also details danger posed by tourist-generated pollution, oil extraction and climate change
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A human foot and another body part were found washed ashore Wednesday on Rio's Copacabana Beach, just in front of the venue wher
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Not an auspicious start to the beach scene this Olympic run. Between the pollution, security concerns, and Zika, this just seems par for the course for this Brazilian athletic contest.
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Heaps of dead whales, salmon and sardines blamed on the El Nino freak weather phenomenon have clogged Chile's Pacific beaches in recent months.
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This might be becoming a thing. While mass standings have gone on forever, we only recently have connected marine mammal and jellyfish blooms/dieoffs with declining ocean health. Is this an El Nino thing or the harbinger of more to come?
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Since millions of gallons of mining waste burst from an inland iron ore mine a month ago, 300 miles of the Rio Doce stretching to the Atlantic Ocean has turned a Martian shade of bright orange, and the deadly consequences for residents and wildlife are just beginning to emerge.
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The ancient coastal basins of Brazil, relatively undisturbed by volcanic eruptions or earthquakes, support impressive strands of mangrove forest, enormous tidal lagoons, and lush coral reefs. Of course, there are also signs of deterioration: only a small fraction of the coastal forest remains, as humans continue to congregate in the coastal zone. Vast sugar cane fields abut coastal ecosystems directly, allowing pollutants and sediments to flow freely into the sea. Mangrove forests are being cut down; poking holes in the filters between land and sea that seagrasses and coral reefs need to thrive.
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During the 12th UN conference of the parties (COP12) on the Convention on Biological Diversity, currently ongoing in South Korea, the Brazilian government
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Hmmmm....lets see if the Brazilians are better at subtidal protections than they are at terrestrial protections.
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Scientists have uncloaked the mystery of an ancient fossilized graveyard of dozens of whales lying side by side with bizarre, walrus-faced dolphins and swimming sloths.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) â€" An attack by a school of carnivorous fish has injured 70 people bathing in an Argentine river, including seven children who lost parts of their fingers or toes.
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I wonder if "Parana River" might have been a clue?
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