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Hello, Goodbye
Amazon Tribes: Still Uncontacted and Already Facing Mortal Danger The latest wave of heavily armed criminal groups operating in the Amazon may eliminate your chance to get to know some of the tribes...
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Green Myopia
A Hard Time Seeing Forest for the Trees Five months after the brutal assassination of yet another defender of the Amazon forest, Brazil still struggles to control its destruction. Last week, the...
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Forest Stumps
An Activist’s Bulletproof Vest May Save Neither Her Nor the Amazon ‘They’re going to kill me.’ Nilcilene Miguel de Lima, who heads a group of small producers deep in Brazil’s Amazonas State, sounds...
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Damned Project
Judge Sets Back Push to Halt Newest Power Plant in Brazil Brazil’s energy needs have pit the administration of President Dilma Rousseff against environmentalists and indigenous populations. Smack in...
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Chico Mendes
The Rainforest Man & the Hands That Dealt His Fate At 6:45pm, 25 years ago this Sunday, Chico Mendes headed to his backyard to take a shower, in Xapuri, at the heart of Brazil’s Amazon state Acre....
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Amazing Zone
Amazon’s Mind-Altering Tales: Nazis, Condoms & the Internet Just on the account of its gargantuan scope and staggering diversity of species, the Amazon Rainforest has inspired some of our most...
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Rain (Forest) Check
The Amazon’s Skydiving Spiders & Other Updates Wonder what’s up with that other, more vital Amazon? Turns out, not nearly as grand as with its namesake commercial enterprise. In fact, weak...
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The Crying Games
A Bruised Rio Hosts Its Low-Expectations Olympics What a difference 10 years make. A decade ago, when Rio begun its cavalcade to host the Summer Olympics, Brazil was swimming in optimism....
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Amazon Via Acre
I Know Why the Vultures Laughed We were all set, strapped onto metal seats, when the captain announced: everybody out, we got stuck. After two days flying, and two flawless landings, only the Guajará...
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Amazon Via Acre
I Know Why the Vultures Laughed We were all set, strapped onto metal seats when the captain announced: everybody out, we got stuck. After two days flying, and two flawless landings, only the Guajará...
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