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The Amazon rainforest could shrink up to 85% over the next century, according to study presented by British scientists at a global warming conference in Copenhagen earlier this month. David Adam reports for the Guardian: Chris Jones, who led the research, told the conference: “A temperature rise of anything over 1C commits you to some future [...] A Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) meeting in Rio de Janeiro on March 21 became an impromptu show of support for Dilma Rousseff’s rumoured presidential candidacy for 2010. Rousseff refused to discuss the rumours about her candidacy at the meeting and called on her supporters to maintain their focus on the task at hand, [...] The Brazilian state of São Paulo released 500,000 geography textbooks containing a map that excludes Ecuador and Uruguay, according to reports by the Associated Press. Instead, the Pacific ocean meets the western coast of Paraguay and a second version of Paraguay appears in place of Uruguay. São Paulo’s Education Secretariat defended itself by passing the [...] |
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