Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
Brazil
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Scalp protection
Researchers from Brazil have just reported that skin flakes in the hair of children with dandruff provide a comfortable refuge for house-dust mites, which trigger allergic responses that can cause
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False promises
after waiting for ten years for promised returns, Brazilian peasants who were forced to leave their land to make way for the Itaparica dam in northeastern Brazil, are petitioning the World Bank for
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Damned forever
<I>Participants at the first international conference of dam affected people in Brazil vow to intensify their fight against large dams</I>
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UNITED NATIONS
The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) held a series of meetings at the UN Environment Programme headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, from March 14-19, 1997.
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BRAZIL
An ingenious way to disseminate information and awareness about AIDS, the deadly malady, was encountered here recently. To design a costume for a carnival, a Brazilian dancer in Sao Paulo recently
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Development woes
large dams have resulted in grave environmental and social repercussions worldwide. Representatives from orga nisations in 20 countries will meet in Curitiba, Brazil from March 11-14, at the first
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BRAZIL
World Bank (wb) representatives recently asked the government of the state of Rondonia to check accusations of invasion of the indigenous area of the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau tribe and the Guajara-Mirim state
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Brazil
Woodcutters operating in the Apyterewa indigenous area in the Para state are luring local Parakana Indians into facilitating smuggling mahogany. Carlos Fausto, an expert from the National Museum of
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Forcible takeover
persecution of Indian communities in the country took a new turn with the Brazilian minister for justice, Nelson Jobim calling for a reduction of Raposa/Serra do Sol area, a 1.6 million ha region