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    At least 11 dead in Rio de Janeiro hospital blaze

    13 Sep 2019

    Four firefighters were hospitalised after battling the overnight blaze at Badim Hospital and about 90 patients were transferred to other hospitals, according to the fire department. Authorities said that a short circuit in a generator could have sparked the blaze.

    The fire broke out at dusk on Thursday at the Badim hospital in the north of Rio, sending medical staff and relatives into a desperate flurry to try to evacuate scores of patients.

    Amazon plans to create more jobs

    03 Jul 2019

    PARIS: US online retail giant Amazon will create 1,800 permanent contract positions this year in France, its largest European market after Britain and Germany, although furniture retailer Conforama went the other way in cutting jobs. The increase will bring Amazon’s total number of permanent staff to 9,300

    California can help save rainforest and show how climate leadership looks like in a bottom-up world

    14 Sep 2019

    Fires burning in Brazil and the broader Amazon basin are shining a spotlight on the role of forests and land use in the climate change challenge. Next week, the California Air Resources Board will hold a hearing that could have a direct impact on such fires.

    Video: New fires rage in Amazon as Brazil military planes battle flames

    26 Aug 2019

    Two C-130 Hercules aircraft carrying thousands of liters of water on Sunday began dousing fires devouring chunks of the world's largest rainforest.

    Brazilian women must be ashamed of Bolsonaro for mocking my wife: Macron

    26 Aug 2019

    Bolsonaro responded on Sunday to a Facebook post that compared the looks of his wife Michelle, 37, with Macron's 66-year-old wife Brigitte. "Do not humiliate the man hahahah," Bolsonaro wrote, in a comment widely criticised as sexist.

    Brazil slams G7 aid offer as Amazon fires rage

    27 Aug 2019

    Nearly 80,000 forest fires have broken out in Brazil since the beginning of the year — just over half of them in the massive Amazon basin that regulates part of Earth's carbon cycle and climate.

    Colossal loss

    22 Aug 2019

    The eyes of those who care about the environment are on the burning Amazon rainforests. But also the eyes of the greedy land mongers and oil thirsty mongers are also gleefully on the Amazon fires. The sufferers in the long run are all the inhabitants of planet Earth but right now, the saddest part is the loss of life of the forest and the creatures

    Douse Amazon forest fires before it’s too late

    25 Aug 2019

    The Amazon in South America is the largest, most diverse tropical rainforest on Earth and it is natural that the entire world is worried and angry over the worst blazes in years raging there. It is hugely important that the fires in the Brazilian rainforest, known as the lungs of the planet, be extinguished as quickly

    Amazon rainforest fires may be record setting: NASA

    22 Aug 2019

    With fires in the Amazon rainforest filling the Brazilian sky with smoke, the number of fires in the region this year may have set a new record.

    Bolsonaro open to G7 aid if Macron ‘withdraws insults’

    27 Aug 2019

    Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he was open to discussing G7 aid for fighting fires in the Amazon if his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron “withdraws insults” made against him.

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