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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C for cattle, C for cash
With the help of a thriving bovine genetics business, Brazil is on the way to become the world's largest cattle exporter. The country recently witnessed the Opera and Bilara Auction, an event of
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Anti afforestation ants
ANTS ARE hindering the return of forests on millions of hectares of abandoned pastures in Brazil by feeding on seeds of trees. According to a team of Brazilian and American researchers, two ant
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Rabid about food
An unprecedented outbreak of rabies in a northeastern province of the Amazon basin has left 15 people dead around Portel, a sparsely populated region of Brazil. Seven cases were diagnosed by
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Tribals in danger
Miners have once again encroached upon the land allotted to the Yanomami, South America's largest surviving tribe of forest Indians. The miners have been ordered on three previous occasions to
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BRAZIL
Environmentalists in Brazil are celebrating the birth of the 1,000th golden lion tamarin monkey in the country's Atlantic forest, a milestone achievement in their fight to preserve the species. "It
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Tears, no funds, for the poor
The chapter on poverty was adopted, but the US voiced its objections loud and clear
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BRAZIL
The soybean productivity levels of this South American country are rising sharply, a trend that could drastically increase production if planting continues to expand, a Brazilian resear cher said
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BRAZIL
The Brazilian government has launched a campaign to monitor illegal logging and fires that are destroying the Amazonian rainforests. The govern ment's environment agency, ibama, has joined
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Cancun impact felt in Dubai
The tone and tenor of the failed Fifth World Trade Organization WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun found an echo in the annual meetings of the World Bank WB and International Monetary Fund IMF in Dubai from September 20 to 22
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Why does popcorn pop?
WHY DOES popcorn pop and not ordinary corn? Because popcorn has a thicker hull and contains starch with superior puffing quality, say Brazilian scientists who compared four varieties of corn and