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Brazil faces dilemma: endangered macaw vs. wind farm

CANUDOS, Brazil: A wind farm in northeastern Brazil sounds like a welcome climate-friendly energy solution, but it is causing controversy over another kind of environmental worry: the impact on the endangered Lear's macaw.

A wind farm in northeastern Brazil sounds like a welcome climate-friendly energy solution, but it is causing controversy over another kind of environmental

A wind farm in northeastern Brazil sounds like a welcome climate-friendly energy solution, but it is causing controversy over another kind of environmental worry: the impact on the endangered Lear's macaw. Home to more than 90 percent of Brazil's booming wind-power industry, the northeast is known for strong, steady winds that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wants to harness to power a green-energy revolution, said AFP.

Pocket Productions will perform family musical The Owl and the Pussycat on a fully-rotating stage at Peppercorns Academy in St Neots on June…

The construction of a wind farm in Brazil has sparked controversy due to concerns about its impact on the endangered Lear's macaw.

The new term makes being exhausted sound like a positive thing, but then the bog-standard ‘tired’ has to cover too many types of weariness. Let’s invent some new terms, writes Emma Beddington

As the lines that separate target audiences by age become increasingly vague, the influence of children on the shape of the cultural products that adults consume keeps growing

James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, presents works by artist Michael Vale.

Born today, you are ambitious and hardworking, but not so much that you are unable to find the fun in your day -- even when you are toiling away at some pr...