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BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo has been hit by severe floods for the second time in less than a week. Local media report that six people have died in mudslides caused by heavy rain.
A global average temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius is now seen by the majority of climate scientists as a 'tipping point' beyond which there is a real risk of long-term irreversible climate change.
In the last heat yesterday, Greg Long came from behind to win $55,000 and the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau big wave invitational. The biggest sets rolled into Waimea Bay during the final hour ranging from 44- to 50-foot wave faces. These mountains of water allowed Long to catch four high-scoring rides to overtake nine-time world champion Kelly Slater. Sunny Garcia was third.
SAO PAULO (AP) — Authorities arrested five men and one woman accused of tunneling their way to nearly $6 million over the weekend while Brazil was gripped with football fever, but detectives recovered only a tiny fraction of the stolen cash, police said Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch Criticizes Police for Host City of 2016 Olympics Rio de Janeiro
President-Elect Says Country's Congress Should Grant Amnesty for Ousted President Zelaya, Coup Participants
MANHATTAN -- Traveling across South America, John Chaney heard plenty of claims. Most turned out to be untrue, the player not quite as tall, fast or talented as advertised.
Rotary District 6080 is searching for a team of young professionals to join team leader Rotarian Jim Dow from Springfield for a month-long cultural exchange to South Korea in the spring of 2010.
International Expansion Continues as Zazzle Meets Growing Demand for Customized Products
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will sign a decree next week increasing the country’s minimum wage by 8.7 percent next year, Folha de Sao Paulo reported, without saying where it obtained the information.
There's a long-term case for emerging markets, but you may already have enough.
The Caipirinha, one of The Continental’s two signature drinks, is the national cocktail of Brazil.
The export-dependent sawmilling industry in Brazil has been cutting back production in 2007 as shipments to the US fell. With the reduced operating rates, demand for sawlogs declined and timber prices leveled off in the 4Q, according to the market report Wood Resource Quarterly. However, with the strengthening of the Brazilian Real, wood costs continued up to a record high in US dollars terms ...
Pulpwood costs in Brazil will continue to be record high as competition increases for smaller logs between the pulp, energy and wood panel sectors. Wood costs in the 4Q/07 were almost twice the level of four years ago. [PR.com - April 18, 2008]
The wood costs for the world's pulpmills reached a 13-year high in the 4Q/07 as many pulp producers struggled to source their mills with sufficient supply of wood fiber. [PR.com - February 08, 2008]
WRQ Global Average Wood Fiber Price 3Q-2007: The average global conifer wood price was up to US$103.26/odmt in the 3Q/07, which was the highest level since 1995. In US dollar terms, conifer wood fiber costs were up in practically all regions tracked by the WRQ except for the US South and US West. The weakening US dollar helped the global price upward, but costs were also up in local currencies ...
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