Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In April 2012 Brazil's powerful farm lobby won a long-sought victory after the National Congress of Brazil approved a controversial forestry bill that environmentalists say will speed deforestation in the Amazon as more land is opened for producing food. [5] By 2020, at least 50% of the species resident in Brazil may become extinct. [4]
The Cerrado (Portuguese pronunciation:) is a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná and the Federal District.
Social media in Brazil is the use of social networking applications in this South American nation. This is due to economic growth and the increasing availability of computers and smartphones. Brazil is the world's second-largest user of Twitter (at 41.2 million tweeters), and the largest market for YouTube outside the United States. [130]
In 2014, physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio found the fossil in the town of Paraiso do Sul in Brazil's southernmost Rio Grande do Sul state. He donated it to a local university in 2021, kicking ...
Brazil: The Last Crusade was produced and launched on YouTube by the extreme right organization Brasil Paralelo ("Parallel Brazil"), a channel with more than 700 thousand subscribers; the documentary now has more than 1.5 million views. The first episode, "The Cross and the Sword", presents a brief history of Western civilization in the Middle ...
The Awá are an Indigenous people of Brazil living in the Amazon rain forest. There are approximately 350 members, and 100 of them have no contact with the outside world. They are considered highly endangered because of conflicts with logging interests in their territory. [1] The Awá people speak Guajá, a Tupi–Guaraní language. Originally ...
2 in 8 with double base by Castellers de la Vila de Gràcia. A 2 in 8 with double base (Catalan: 2 de 8 amb folre or torre de vuit amb folre) is a castellers human tower with 8 levels and 2 people per level in the trunk. It is strengthened by a second base (folre) in the second level, which helps the third
Brazil has 0.539 by the Gini index, based on 2018 data. It is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, being the only Latin American in the list where Africans appear. Brazil is more unequal than Botswana, with 0.533 according to the Gini index, a small country neighboring South Africa with just over two million inhabitants. [7]