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Children fling themselves onto the floor and cover their heads with their hands as loud bangs ring out in the classroom. In one of...
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Brazilian authorities this week intensified their fight against illegal mining on the land of the Indigenous Yanomami people, sending helicopters over the Amazon jungle...
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At first glance, it is a house like dozens of others in the crowded favelas of Brazil. But this seemingly modest dwelling of 66...
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The death toll from floods and landslides in southeast Brazil has risen to 54 people, the authorities said Friday, as Pope Frances sent a...
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Brazilian Amazon deforestation reached its worst-ever February level in the second month of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s presidential term, provisional data showed...
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Brazilian authorities said Thursday evening that the death toll from floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in the country’s southeast had risen to...
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Climate change and unchecked construction in flood- and landslide-prone areas are making disasters like the violent storm that killed at least 48 people in...
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Watching an emergency crew recover his parents’ bodies from the landslide-obliterated spot in southeastern Brazil where their house used to be, Marcio managed to...
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At least 48 people were killed in floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in southeastern Brazil, authorities said Wednesday, updating the death toll...
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Rescuers in southeastern Brazil scrambled Tuesday to find survivors among dozens of people still missing after record rainfalls caused flooding and mudslides that killed...