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• Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America
BRASILIA, Brazil - The booming prices for Venezuelan oil, Brazilian soy beans and Chilean copper that brought prosperity to Latin America are heading for a bust that threatens to erode the hard-won gains of its poor and newly emerging middle class ...
• Flight of the penguins to freedom off Brazil
But the survivors were quickly picked up, and on Friday a Brazilian C-130 Hercules military aircraft shuttled them from Salvador to beach town in southern Brazil. On Saturday, the juveniles were introduced to some rescued adult penguins and released ...
• World's luxurious wilderness adventures
He also just returned from a four-day stay at Pousada Maya, a small lodge and spa in the Brazilian town of Alto Paraíso. While there, Stowell explored the waterfalls, tree canopies and canyons of Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park. The lodge's ...
• EarthTalk: Painkillers and electric bikes
Another example is the partnerships that the nonprofit Projeto Bagagem (Project Baggage) has forged with several Brazilian communities to bring in tourist dollars to support sustainable choices. A third of the cost of every Projeto Bagagem trip goes ...
• Stripper science earns frivolous fame
... Nobel laureates bestow the awards, also honored a British psychologist who found that foods that sound better taste better; a group of researchers who discovered exotic dancers make more money when they are at peak fertility; and a pair of Brazilian ...