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A newfound feathered dinosaur sported fuzz and weird rods on its shoulders
Science News   14 December 2020   Brazil  
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<p>The fossil of a chicken-sized, meat eater from Brazil that had a mane of fluffy filaments and a pair of stiff, ribbon-like streamers emerging from both shoulders is the first dinosaur with feathers ever discovered in the Southern Hemisphere.<br />Named ...
Scientists discover 115-million-year-old fossil of new dinosaur species in Brazil
DW   10 July 2020   Brazil  
Scientists believe the newly-discovered Aratasaurus museunacionali roamed the Earth 115 million years ago
<p>A team of Brazilian researchers announced on Friday the discovery of a 115-million-year-old fossil belonging to a previously unknown species of dinosaur in the northeastern state of Ceara.<br />The "Aratasaurus museunacionali" is a previously unknown species ...
Brazil's deadly storm causes landslides, killing at least 23 people with dozens still missing
abc.net.au   05 March 2020   Brazil  
Photo: Many houses have been destroyed in Sao Paolo state due to landslides. (AP: Nelson Antoine)
<p><br />At least 23 people have been killed and dozens more are missing in Brazil after a storm hit the country's south-eastern coast, causing torrential rain and landslides, authorities have said.<br />The deaths occurred in the cities of Guaruja, Santos ...
Deadly flooding, landslides strike Brazil
DW   26 January 2020   Brazil  
<p>At least 44 people have been killed, with 19 still missing, following more than two days of torrential rains in the southeast of the country. The severe weather comes one year after a dam break killed nearly 300 people.</p>
Oldest carnivorous dinosaur fossil unearthed in Brazil
Phys Org   13 November 2019   Brazil  
<p>A team of researchers from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria and Universidade de S&atilde;o Paulo, both in Brazil, has found and identified the oldest carnivorous dinosaur fossil to date. In their paper published in the journal PeerJ, the group describes ...
Death toll grows to 60 from tragic collapse of a dam owned by Brazilian mining giant Vale
CNBC   29 January 2019   Brazil  
Members of a rescue team search for victims after a tailings dam owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA collapsed, in Brumadinho, Brazil January 28, 2019.
<p>At least 60 people have been killed and hundreds are still missing after a dam collapsed at Vale&rsquo;s Corrego do Feijao mine in southeastern Brazil on Friday.<br />The tragedy is the second major disaster linked to Brazilian mining giant Vale in about ...
At least ten dead in Brazil landslide
Euronews   12 November 2018   Brazil   Niteroi  
At least ten dead in Brazil landslide
<p>Rescuers are searching for survivors of a mudslide in Brazil that has left at least ten people dead including a child. At least four people are still missing. It happened in the early hours of Saturday morning in the Niteroi area outside the capital Rio ...
Filed under: Natural Hazards
Brazil announces £11.8bn in concession projects
The construction index   09 March 2017   Brazil   Americas  
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<p>Brazil&rsquo;s government has announced an expansion of its investment partnership programme (PPI) with a forecast spend of R$45bn (&pound;11.8bn).</p> <p>The projects are concentrated in the areas of energy, transportation and sanitation. They comprise ...
Filed under: Construction News
Van Oord and Boskalis win €110m Brazilian contract
The construction index   08 February 2017   Brazil   Americas  
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<p>A joint venture of Van Oord and Boskalis has won a €110m (£95m) dredging contract at South America’s largest port.</p><p>The work at the port of Santos port has been commissioned by the Brazilian Ministry of Transport, Ports &amp; Civil Aviation.</p><p>Studies ...
Filed under: Construction News
Toxic sludge reaches Atlantic after Brazil dams burst
Aljazeera   22 November 2015   Brazil   Rio Doce  
The dams that collapsed were located on hills overlooking the two districts that were devastated by the disaster [Ricardo Moraes/Reuters]
<p>A mudflow thick with toxic mining waste, which initially spilled earlier this month from the collapse of two tailings dams into a main river in southeast Brazil, has now reached the Atlantic Ocean, says Brazil's environmental agency, Ibama.</p> <p>Ibama ...