The Belgian Shepherd helped the rescue team reach the Cessna 206 aircraft, and was also credited for smelling out the kids using a feeding bottle of the youngest child.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the campaign trail last year, pledged to put environmental agency Ibama, back in charge of combating deforestation with beefed-up funding and personnel.
South America’s Pantanal wetlands — reaching into Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay — are burning at a record pace this year, and commercial farmers are largely to blame.
The move came after China imposed the National Security Law in Hong Kong that punishes dissent, criminalises sedition and curbs protests with life imprisonment.
If even 20-25 per cent of Amazon is deforested, its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide would collapse and it could become its biggest patch of scrub land.
The Amazon is a crucial carbon sink, which makes responding to Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro's deforestation efforts a matter of international responsibility.
Oceans sit between the Assamese singer and the Bollywood actor. But what their deaths reveal is a study in human behaviour as performed in the public sphere.
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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