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- New satellite photos show Amazon deforestation exploding
  Posted by Jeff from Mcclatchydc
  Brazil's DETER real-time monitoring system found that more than 430 square miles of forest, an area a bit smaller than the city of Los Angeles, vanished in the month of April, while about 2,300 square miles, larger than the state of Delaware, were destroyed between last August and April.
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- BRAZIL: Controversial Bill to Sterilise Younger Women
  Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
  BRAZIL: Controversial Bill to Sterilise Younger Women RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 22 (IPS) - A draft law to reduce the minimum age for women to undergo voluntary sterilisation in Brazil’s public hospitals from 25 to 18 is vigorously opposed by the government.
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- The long road to ruin for the Amazon forest
  Posted by Jeff from Guardian UK
  It is also the most controversial road in Brazil, built in the 1970s to open up the jungle to colonisation - forgetting, of course, that many indigenous Indians lived there already. It has become a frontier of deforestation. Now President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced that one of the major projects of his second term, at a cost of $350m, will be to pave the 600 miles of the road that is still a dirt track.
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- Brazilian Judge Detains Pilots in Midair Collision
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  A Brazilian judge ordered the police late Monday to confiscate the passports of the two American pilots who were flying the business jet that apparently collided Friday with an airliner. The airliner crashed, killing all 155 people aboard, but the business jet was able to land safely.
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- Colliding With Death at 37,000 Feet, and Living
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  A harrowing, first-person account of the collision over the Amazon rain forest in Brazil between a Boeing 737 and a corporate jet that cost 155 people their lives.
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- Brazil votes in election defined by sleaze
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  The past few days have seen a dramatic turn-around as opposition candidates flayed President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the champion of Brazil's poor, over corruption scandals surrounding his Workers' Party. revelations that his campaign staff tried to buy information for a smear campaign against his main challenger Geraldo Alckmin gave a lackluster opposition new ammunition. It also reminded voters of a string of bribery and vote-buying scandals which have cost Lula's chief of staff, his finance minister and other aides their jobs.
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- Crash site of Brazil jet found
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Airborne searchers found the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane on Saturday that crashed a day earlier in Amazon jungle with 155 people on board and the chances of anyone surviving were slight, officials said. The brand-new Boeing 737-800 operated by Brazilian low-cost carrier Gol probably plunged into the ground nose first after colliding with a smaller plane, the head of Brazil's airport authority Infraero said.
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New satellite photos show Amazon deforestation exploding

This story is very disheartening. I wish we could send our military down to help Brazil protect the Amazon (rather than having them bogged down in Iraq).

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