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(2019) Duarte et al. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical. Introduction: This study aimed to examine the impact of climate variability on the incidence of dengue fever in the city of Rio Branco, Brazil. Methods: The association between the monthly incidence of dengue fever and cli...
RIO BRANCO, Brazil — In the space of just a few months, entire cities and small communities in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon have faced extreme weather conditions this year — from flood-related displacement to severe water shortage — that experts attribute to climate change and human actions, including the depletion of banks of […]
Flooding in Brazil, Peru Displaces Thousands and More Rain Is on the Way The Weather Channel 2/25/2021 Ron Brackett More than 120,000 people have been displaced by flooding that has inundated several cities in the Amazon rainforest, and more rain is expected. The state of Acre, in northwest Brazil, on the border with Peru, declared a state of disaster in 10 cities after rivers overflowed their banks, the Associated Press reported. More than 4,000 families were evacuated in Sena Madureira, one of the worst-hit cities, the AP also said. In the state capital of Rio Branco, the ...
In journeys of thousands of miles, migrants get trapped in legal limbo Feb 2, 2021 catholic news service Peruvian National Police detain Haitian migrants accused of illegally crossing the Brazil-Peru border in Madre de Dios, Peru, Jan. 27, 2021. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Peruvian National Police.) Didier Jackson had not planned on coming to Peru and, once in the country, did not intend on staying. He and his family, however, got stuck and are now trying to figure out where to go next. LIMA, Peru — Didier Jackson had not planned on coming to Peru and, once in the country, did not intend on...
) Each settlement is connected across the wider landscape by further straight roads that also radiate out from the center of the villages. Furthermore, the complexity of this design matrix is multiplied ten-fold when we consider that some small groups of villages “exhibit regular distances.” So not only do their locations and alignments reflect cosmic principals, but they also adhere to carefully calculated measurements on the landscape, of “2.5–3 km [1.6–1.9 miles] and 5–6 km [3.1–3.7 miles] between sites,” according to the paper. Putting this Cosmos in Context Having now...