<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Brazil vows to stem Amazon loss  : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/"/><tagline>Brazil vows to stem Amazon loss  : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-10-12T22:40:37+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Brazil vows to stem Amazon loss ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48251/1/" /><id>48251</id><summary><![CDATA[Brazil vows to stem Amazon loss ]]></summary><issued>2008-01-24T15:32:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-24T15:32:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Brazil has agreed emergency measures to stem deforestation as government figures revealed a sharp increase in the rate of clearances in the Amazon.<br/><br/><i>It's about time</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Brazil Registers 28 Deaths From Lightning In 2008]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/52926/1/" /><id>52926</id><summary><![CDATA[Brazil Registers 28 Deaths From Lightning In 2008]]></summary><issued>2008-03-03T22:11:11+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-03T22:11:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Brazil has registered <b>28</b> lightning-related deaths so far in <b>2</b>00<b>8</b>. This is an increase of 64% from last year.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[16-Year-Old Says He Murdered 12 In Brazil]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/56163/1/" /><id>56163</id><summary><![CDATA[16-Year-Old Says He Murdered 12 In Brazil]]></summary><issued>2008-03-28T16:42:27+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-28T16:42:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 16-year-old boy has admitted to the murders of 12 people in southern Brazil, according to a police investigator who described a chillingly calm confession.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Largest Dinosaur Model  Revealed in Brazil]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55/1/" /><id>55</id><summary><![CDATA[Largest Dinosaur Model  Revealed in Brazil]]></summary><issued>2006-08-30T13:27:56+01:00</issued><modified>2006-08-30T13:27:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists revealed a replica of a dinosaur skeleton found in Brazil. It is the biggest dinosaur yet described however they have not been able to put the bones together for scientific descriptions.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Brazil finds prehistoric &quot;Sea Warrior&quot; crocodile]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/56044/1/" /><id>56044</id><summary><![CDATA[Brazil finds prehistoric &quot;Sea Warrior&quot; crocodile]]></summary><issued>2008-03-27T21:40:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-27T21:40:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A fossil of a new marine crocodile species found in Brazil shows the reptiles survived the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Brazil Vs. Argentina Rivalry (NSFW)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20956/1/" /><id>20956</id><summary><![CDATA[Brazil Vs. Argentina Rivalry (NSFW)]]></summary><issued>2007-05-21T03:40:13+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-21T03:40:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Funny advertisements making fun of Brazil and Argentina....]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Brazil to pay for sex-change ops]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32093/1/" /><id>32093</id><summary><![CDATA[Brazil to pay for sex-change ops]]></summary><issued>2007-08-18T14:32:49+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-18T14:32:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Brazil's public health care system will cover the cost of sex-change operations, the government said, after a federal court ruled the procedure was a constitutional right.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists discover new reefs teeming with marine life in Brazil]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/68251/1/" /><id>68251</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists discover new reefs teeming with marine life in Brazil]]></summary><issued>2008-07-10T01:43:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-10T01:43:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists announced today the discovery of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://images.conservation.org/admin/packaging/viewtransmit_ext.aspx?messageId=102551&amp;userName=gpoggi&amp;session=44e37fb4eee46145e5744bab799160ab" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">reef structures</a> they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off the southern coast of Brazil's Bahia state. The newly discovered area is also far more abundant in marine life than the previously known Abrolhos reef system, one of the world's most unique and important reefs.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Brazillian Extreme Street Football (Soccer)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/53718/1/" /><id>53718</id><summary><![CDATA[Brazillian Extreme Street Football (Soccer)]]></summary><issued>2008-03-10T09:49:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-10T09:49:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Did I mention Extreme? These guys are amazing. If we ever decide disputes by football/soccer, Brazil will be The World Power. Dupe from <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/sports/l/51099/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Balloons found, but no sign of high-flying priest]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59424/1/" /><id>59424</id><summary><![CDATA[Balloons found, but no sign of high-flying priest]]></summary><issued>2008-04-23T10:19:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-23T10:19:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Rescuers in Brazil have reached a cluster of brightly coloured party balloons floating in the ocean off Brazil's coast but failed to find the Roman Catholic priest who was using them in a bid to set a flight record. Update on <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/59167/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this post</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Two spheres have fallen to Earth in Australia and Brazil]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/56342/1/" /><id>56342</id><summary><![CDATA[Two spheres have fallen to Earth in Australia and Brazil]]></summary><issued>2008-03-31T00:23:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-31T00:23:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[You heard about the first one <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/weird/l/56035/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here.</a>. Now, another one.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Whale found deep in Brazil rain forest]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41867/1/" /><id>41867</id><summary><![CDATA[ Whale found deep in Brazil rain forest]]></summary><issued>2007-11-16T22:32:48+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-16T22:32:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An 18-foot minke whale ran aground on a sandbar in the Amazon jungle some 1,000 miles from the ocean, Brazilian media reported Friday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Inmate had $170,000, guns, TV, fridge in cell]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64754/1/" /><id>64754</id><summary><![CDATA[Inmate had $170,000, guns, TV, fridge in cell]]></summary><issued>2008-06-09T00:51:46+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-09T00:51:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[SAO PAULO, Brazil - Officials in northeastern Brazil say they confiscated the equivalent of more than $170,000 and two pistols from an imprisoned drug trafficker whose jail cell was equipped with a plasma TV set, a refrigerator and gym equipment.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Penguins Taking Vacations on Brazil Beaches.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/78580/1/" /><id>78580</id><summary><![CDATA[Penguins Taking Vacations on Brazil Beaches.]]></summary><issued>2008-10-03T01:03:32+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-03T01:03:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The sheer quantity of young penguins that have washed up on Brazil's sun-drenched beaches this year has confounded nearly everyone who comes in contact with them.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Human stem cells help blinded rats]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/714/1/" /><id>714</id><summary><![CDATA[Human stem cells help blinded rats]]></summary><issued>2006-09-21T13:29:31+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-21T13:29:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Human embryonic stem cells can partly restore vision in blinded rats.  What are we waiting for?  Oh yah, our current government doesn't support stem cell research.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Stolen Picasso Painting Found In Brazil]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/46465/1/" /><id>46465</id><summary><![CDATA[Stolen Picasso Painting Found In Brazil]]></summary><issued>2008-01-08T22:09:17+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-08T22:09:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Brazilian police recovered paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari that were stolen last month from the country's premier modern art museum, officials said Tuesday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A Brailian Boy's Walk to Slavery]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/4659/1/" /><id>4659</id><summary><![CDATA[A Brailian Boy's Walk to Slavery]]></summary><issued>2006-10-28T20:32:30+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-28T20:32:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[From the epic novel, <i>Brazil</i>, here's an excerpt. <i>Brazil</i> is the heart wrenching story of a Brazilian child torn from his mother and sold into a lifetime of slavery on a Sao Paulo coffee plantation.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Photo That Proves The Cliche, &quot;A Picture Is Worth A 1000 Words&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/54428/1/" /><id>54428</id><summary><![CDATA[The Photo That Proves The Cliche, &quot;A Picture Is Worth A 1000 Words&quot;]]></summary><issued>2008-03-15T11:17:09+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-15T11:17:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This is just a single image along with some background info, but I felt it is powerful enough and news worthy enough to warrant it's own posting.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pororoca: surfing the Amazon ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12982/1/" /><id>12982</id><summary><![CDATA[Pororoca: surfing the Amazon ]]></summary><issued>2007-03-13T04:38:35+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-13T04:38:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Twice a year, between the months of February and March, the Atlantic Ocean waters roll up the Amazon river, in Brazil, generating the longest wave on the Earth. The phenomenon, known as the Pororoca, is caused by the tides of the Atlantic Ocean wich meet the mouth of the river. This tidal bore generates waves up to 12 feet high which can last for over half an hour.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mapinguary: The Amazonian Sasquatch]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/26670/1/" /><id>26670</id><summary><![CDATA[Mapinguary: The Amazonian Sasquatch]]></summary><issued>2007-07-08T22:35:05+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-08T22:35:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Is this vicious South American cryptid just a legend, or are sighting actually of a surviving giant ground sloth?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Brazil's Noah's Ark]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/862/1/" /><id>862</id><summary><![CDATA[Brazil's Noah's Ark]]></summary><issued>2006-09-23T04:31:33+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-23T04:31:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Species threatened with extinction clinging to survival in an area barely the size of  Manhatten.]]></content></entry></feed>