Brazil has been hit with a major
copyright scandal
as 15 directors of a local copyright collective have been indicted for
fraud. The Brazilian Senate has proposed changes to the legal
regulation of copyright collectives wth an emphasis on increas…

Last October I wrote a really strange column noting that the government of Brazil…

Leaders of Brazil, Turkey & Iran

As the Republicans continue to escalate their misguided criticism of Obama and his handling of the issue of a nuclear Iran, they desperately need a brief history lesson. I am not talking about a history lesson t…

Leaders of Brazil, Turkey & Iran As the Republicans continue to escalate their misguided criticism of Obama and his handling of the issue of a nuclear Iran, they desperately need a brief history lesson. I am not talking about a history lesson that…

Wow. Whodathunk? Both pro- and anti-choicers agree. Mandatory registration of pregnancy is a bad idea.Over the xmas holiday, Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, used a sneaky tactic to implement just such a rule, under the ‘guise’ (critics…

Behold, the fetus fetish. Unfortunately, the torrent of burning stupid never stops (the republican primary debates are ample evidence), not even for the new year.  Brazil has just passed a piece of legislation making compulsory to register if you hap…

What better way to start 2012 off than with some happy news, this time from LAN Airlines, the flag carrier of Chile, whose new LGBT travel microsite, landiversity.com, is a one-stop shop dedicated to gay and lesbian travelers to and within South Americ…

What better way to start 2012 off than with some happy news, this time from LAN Airlines, the flag carrier of Chile, whose new LGBT travel microsite, landiversity.com, is a one-stop shop dedicated to gay and lesbian travelers to and within South Ameri…

The Environment Minister spreads the good word.
Environment Minister Peter Kent repeated his sharp…

Here in a small fishing village on the coast of Brazil, nobody spoke English. I came here on a volunteer vacation. This was my first visit to a location where neither was English prevalent nor did I know the language.

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Law enforcement agencies in Brazil announced today that they would begin investigating the cause of an oil spill that occurred off the coast. Chevron's Frade Well off the coast …

oil slick.jpg Law enforcement agencies in Brazil announced today that they would begin investigating the cause of an oil spill that occurred off the coast. Chevron's Frade Well off the coast of Brazil has been leaking for more than a week. From …

Other countries are doing serious work to attract international students, but not us

Image: TreeHugger

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.

We also have a project dedicated to knitting sweaters for…

Felipe Leite is planning a two-year, four-legged trip from Toronto to Brazil.

Get ready to be charmed out of your breeches, horse girls and guys—Torontoist has found your dream date. Unfortunately, the love of this horse-husband would involve a significant amount of pining: He’s leaving in May for a two-year ride to Brazil.Read: A Horse, Of Course!

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Since the 1970s, when plans were first conceived to build a massive hydroelectric dam along the Xingu river in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the forces of development have had to contest with unyielding voices of protest –…

Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil

A new flowering plant species accidentally discovered in Bahia, Brazil has the unique ability to bow down and deposit its seeds, The tiny white and pink flower in effect replants itself for the next season.

The d…

Photos via UOL Brazil.

Brazilians are savvy in giving PET bottles second lives, turning them into everything from roof solar water heaters to zero electricity light bulbs and

Image credit: Gehrlicher Solar

From a 2MW solar array at FedEx Field to the world’s largest solar stadium, the idea of incorporating clean energy—and solar power in particular—into major sporting arenas is nothing new. But now it’s being …