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Brazil's mangroves on the front line of climate change
CAIRU, Brazil (Reuters) - Fishermen like Jose da Cruz have made their living for decades hunting for crabs among Brazil's vast coastal mangrove forests, dense thickets of twisted plants in deep black mud that grow where fresh-water rivers meet the brackish Atlantic Ocean.
Ukraine and Russia take centre stage as leaders gather for G20
BRISBANE Australia (Reuters) - A showdown between Western leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely at the G20 summit in Australia starting on Saturday, following fresh reports of Russian troops pouring into eastern Ukraine.
In Brazil's Amazon a COVID-19 resurgence dashes herd immunity hopes
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The largest city in Brazil's Amazon has closed bars and river beaches to contain a fresh surge of coronavirus cases, a trend that may dash theories that Manaus was one of the world's first places to reach collective, or herd, immunity.
Peru bores through Andes to water desert after century of dreams
OLMOS, Peru (Reuters) - Peru's Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year, but a radical engineering solution for water scarcity could soon create an agricultural bonanza here.
Peru water wars threaten agricultural export boom
ICA, Peru (Reuters) - The World Bank, which has lent millions of dollars to turn Peru's fragile desert coast into verdant farmland, has stumbled into a film noir scene straight out of Roman Polanski's 'Chinatown' about the violent water wars of 1930s Los Angeles.
Activists target Dutch website after boy arrested
LONDON (Reuters) - Cyber activists attacking organisations seen as foes of WikiLeaks briefly blocked a Dutch prosecution website on Friday after a 16-year-old boy suspected of involvement in the campaign was arrested in the country.
Reuters Summit - Brazil says US climate goal unacceptable
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc said on Wednesday that U.S. targets for greenhouse gas emissions are unacceptably weak and that Brazil will place new restrictions on its huge farm sector to cut deforestation.
Steve Jobs biography tops every E-book chart
LOS ANGELES: The Steve Jobs biography has debuted at the top of the charts, and you can expect it to stay there for a long time.
Activists target Dutch website after boy arrested
LONDON (Reuters) - Cyber activists attacking organizations seen as foes of WikiLeaks briefly blocked a Dutch prosecution website on Friday after a 16-year-old suspected of involvement in the campaign was arrested in the country.
Grappling with shift to e-books
SEOUL: Korea's e-book market has long been dormant. Even though there have been a handful of attempts to kickstart the potentially huge market in the past few years, the parties involved - writers, readers and publishers - did not pay much attention.
