Solar Energy Benefits Children and Indigenous People in Northern Brazil — Global Issues

Solar Energy Benefits Children and Indigenous People in Northern Brazil — Global Issues

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Aerial view of the Municipal Theater of Boa Vista and its parking lot covered by solar panels, near the center of a city of wide avenues, empty spaces, abundant solar energy and high quality of life compared to other cities in Brazil’s Amazon region. In the background is seen the…

Great Wind and Solar Potential Boosts Green Hydrogen in Northern Brazil — Global Issues

Great Wind and Solar Potential Boosts Green Hydrogen in Northern Brazil — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

View of the port of Pecém, in the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil, with its container yard and the bridge leading to the docks where the ships dock, in the background. Minerals, oil and gas, steel, cement and wind blades are some of the products imported or exported through…

Biomethane, the Energy that Cleans Garbage in Brazil — Global Issues

Biomethane, the Energy that Cleans Garbage in Brazil — Global Issues

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Thales Motta, director of GNR Fortaleza, stands in front of the biomethane plant located in northeastern Brazil, the development of which required overcoming prejudices, mistrust and misinformation to open up the market for gas generated from garbage. Now biomethane is expanding, making use of landfills and agricultural biomass. CREDIT: Mario…

Mobilizing Against Hunger in Brazil, Where It Affects 33.1 Million People — Global Issues

Mobilizing Against Hunger in Brazil, Where It Affects 33.1 Million People — Global Issues

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The large Citizen Action warehouse in downtown Rio de Janeiro is filled with food donated by people in solidarity for distribution to poor and hunger-stricken communities. There are 33.1 million Brazilians suffering from hunger, according to a survey by a network of researchers on the subject. CREDIT: Tânia Rêgo /Agência…

Expensive Energy from Cheap Sources Hampers Brazils Economy — Global Issues

Expensive Energy from Cheap Sources Hampers Brazils Economy — Global Issues

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President Jair Bolsonaro launched the sale of shares of Eletrobras, the largest company in the electricity sector in Brazil, which will be privatized through its capitalization. The State will remain as a minority partner, in a privatization process approved by Congress, conditional on the construction of gas thermoelectric power plants…

Cities in Brazil Reap Floods after Hiding Their Rivers Underground — Global Issues

Cities in Brazil Reap Floods after Hiding Their Rivers Underground — Global Issues

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The confluence of the waters with the distinct colors of the pollution of each one: darker waters reflect the urban sewage of the Arrudas River, while brown reflects erosion coming from the upper Velhas River, a natural effect or product of mining visible in the city of Belo Horizonte, in…

Caring for Water Where Mining Leads to Wealth and Tragedies in Brazil — Global Issues

Caring for Water Where Mining Leads to Wealth and Tragedies in Brazil — Global Issues

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A mountainous landscape in the area of the headwaters of the Velhas River, where “barraginhas”, the Portuguese name for holes dug like lunar craters in the hills and slopes, prevent erosion by swallowing a large amount of soil that sediments the upper reaches of the river, in the southeastern Brazilian…

Floods Drive Urban Solutions in Brazilian Metropolis — Global Issues

Floods Drive Urban Solutions in Brazilian Metropolis — Global Issues

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Pollution from urban sewage is visible in the Onça (jaguar, in Portuguese) River, near its mouth, seen here from the entrance bridge in the Ribeiro de Abreu neighborhood that suffers frequent flooding when it rains heavily in Belo Horizonte, capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil….