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Satellite vegetation-index image of southern Rondonia, Brazil, in 2006 showing cleared land in tan and remaining forest in green

Brazil’s Amazon Clearing Falls to a Record Low Days After Manaus Smoke

Brazil's space agency put Amazon clearing at 3,335 square kilometers for August 2025 to July 2026, the lowest since 1988, nine days before the presidential runoff. The figure is a preliminary estimate,

October 17, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Satellite view of grey smoke plumes streaming across the Amazon River and rainforest from fires near Manaus and Santarem on October 12, 2026

Smoke Shuts Manaus Schools as October Fire Detections Near Triple

Smoke from Amazon fires closed schools in Manaus on October 12, and INPE's data show October detections nearly triple last year's. NASA scientists call it the second domino of an El Niño cascade, and satellites are missing fires under the

October 15, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Senators in the Brazilian Senate raise fists and applaud after the vote ending the 6x1 work schedule

Brazil Ends Six-Day Workweek in 75 to 1 Senate Vote Before Runoff

Brazil's Senate voted 75 to 1 on Wednesday to end the 6x1 work schedule and cut

About 27 million Corona cases worldwide and it is infecting aid workers in Syria

While the number of new infections with the Coronavirus is close to 27 million globally, workers in the fields of relief and health care in Syria are facing a new challenge as

September 7, 2020

Health·News

Corona today … an accelerated spread in Mexico and Brazil, and fears of a rush to launch a vaccine in America

On Saturday, about 200,000 new infections with the new Corona virus were recorded around the world, bringing the total number of infected people to more than 26.6 million, and the number of

September 6, 2020

Health·News

Exhaustion of death certificates in a foreign country due to Corona virus victims

Mexican Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, said that the government has ordered the printing of 1.1 million additional death certificates, with certificates running out in several regions of the country and

September 6, 2020

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Bolsonaro: “I can’t kill that cancer that NGOs are”

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, again attacked this Thursday against environmental non-governmental organizations: ” You know that the NGOs, to a large extent, cannot with me, but I cannot kill that

September 6, 2020

Government and Politics·News

Tightening measures to combat the COVID-19 epidemic in many countries

Many countries that are trying hard to contain the outbreak of the new Coronavirus have intensified measures of isolation and imposing the wearing of masks, while the World Health Organization hopes to

August 22, 2020

Health·News

More difficult than we think .. Who should get the Corona vaccine first?

Who should get the Corona vaccine first? It is a question that worries both ethics and medicine. Some see that the priority in getting vaccinated is for workers in the medical sectors

August 2, 2020

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Ciudad del Este returns to strict quarantine in Paraguay

The Government of Paraguay today issued the resolution that provides for the backward movement of the Plan of Gradual Uprising of the strict quarantine and re-imposes the mandatory isolation in the entire

August 1, 2020

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After the coronavirus Bolsonaro has a lung infection and feels “weak”

“I just did a blood test, yesterday I felt a little weak, they found a little infection (lung). I am taking antibiotics now, ” he said last night during his weekly transmission

August 1, 2020

Government and Politics·News

Jair Bolsonaro’s wife is infected with coronavirus

Michelle de Paula Firmo, 38 and the wife of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, tested positive for COVID-19, a disease from which the president recovered last weekend, official sources reported on Thursday. First

July 30, 2020

News

WHO confirmed new record for coronavirus infections: 230,370

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported a record increase in coronavirus cases worldwide, after accounting for a total of 230,370 in the last 24 hours. The United States, Brazil, India, and South

July 13, 2020

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