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Rio Issues Crisis Alert After Devastating Torrential Rain, Rocinha and Vidigal Hard Hit [VIDEO]

By Karen Melo, Melissa Cannabrava • Translation by Dylan Blau Edelstein, Habib Msallem • February 8, 2019

Clique aqui e aqui para Português After recording the highest temperatures in nearly a century during the month of January, the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region was inundated by a torrential storm causing landslides, destroying […]

Movimento Pro-Saneamento's "Recycle Araruama" event in December 2016. Photo from MPS Facebook page
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Baixada’s Pro-Sanitation Movement #SustainableFavelaNetwork [PROFILE]

By Lucas Smolcic Larson • April 18, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Initiative: Pro-Sanitation and Environment Movement of the Parque Araruama Region (Movimento Pró-Saneamento e Meio Ambiente da Região do Parque Araruama) Contact: Facebook | Email Year Founded: 2011 Community: Parque Araruama Region – São João de […]

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Yunus: How to Create a World of Zero Poverty, Unemployment, and Carbon Emissions [BOOK REVIEW]

By Alex Besser, Eli Nemzer • March 26, 2018

Clique aqui para Português In his new book, A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment and Zero Net Carbon Emissions, Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Muhammad Yunus proposes social business […]

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Panel Debates Climate Change and the City of Rio de Janeiro

By Juliana Torres • Translation by Carolyn Oliveira • June 19, 2017

Clique aqui para Português The XXI Pontifical Catholic University of Rio (PUC-Rio) Environment Week took place last week from June 6-10, 2017, which is organized by the university’s Interdisciplinary Nucleus for the Environment. All activities were […]

Attendees watch as the water they brought with them from home is poured into the Guanabara Bay. Photo by Domingos Peixoto from Agência O Globo
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Inter-Religious Event Celebrates Guanabara Bay’s ‘Sacred Waters’

By Raine Robichaud • May 10, 2017

Clique aqui para Português The universal importance of water was the root of the May 3 Dialogues: Faith in Climate – Sacred Waters event, hosted by the Institute for the Study of Religion (ISER) at Brazil’s National History Museum. Wednesday […]

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