Worshippers attend the Day of the Spiritual Indoctrinator, annual celebrations at the Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn) community in the Planaltina neighbourhood of Brasilia, Brazil. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
The storms also triggered landslides and the partial collapse of a dam structure at a small hydro-electric power plant. Flooding from heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul has killed 39 people, according to local authorities, with the death toll expected to rise as dozens remain unaccounted-for....
Brazil floods: Dam collapses and death toll rises in Rio Grande do Sul
"A hydroelectric dam has collapsed in southern Brazil after days of heavy rains that triggered massive flooding, killing more than 30 people.
Climate catastrophe news. This is a before and after of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande del Sul, following four days of relentless torrential rain.
However, in better news, Rishi Sunak's climate policy has been declared unlawful by the High Court this morning (via Adam Bienkov of Byline, see tweet). I'll post the link to the judgment when it surfaces.
Report: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/03/britain-climate-action-plan-unlawful-high-court
The Brazilian government has an ambitious proposal – for an annual global tax levied at 2% on the wealth of the world’s billionaires. The French economist Gabriel Zucman has been asked to draw up a detailed plan for how a billionaire wealth tax would work ready for a meeting of G20 finance ministers in July.
Massive flood disaster in Brazil today with water rescues. The people standing on this building appear to have been swept downstream in later frames of this video... #Brazil#flood#disaster#RioGrandeoSul#ExtremeWeather
As someone from #Brazil, seeing how much influence the #SocialMedia (actually #advertising ) companies are exerting over social/political/economic themes with little to no accountability, the concept seems appealing.
Also, we have a gigantic talent pool and a lot of human potential strangled by this very centralization in Silicon Valley that steals talent away from the country or suppresses local competition.
> As the fortunes of the super-rich soar, a proposed annual levy of 2% could offer a corrective – and they will fight it tooth and nail, says the Guardian’s economics editor Larry Elliott
Valuable 1823 edition of Johann von Spix's “Simiarum et vespertilionum Brasiliensium species novae” was just recovered in London 16 years after being stolen from the Goeldi Museum's rare books collection. This important work is famous for its descriptions and drawings of the monkeys of Brazil as well as other plants and animals then considered new to science.
Flooding in Brazil kills 39 people with 68 still missing and 24,000 displaced (www.abc.net.au)
The storms also triggered landslides and the partial collapse of a dam structure at a small hydro-electric power plant. Flooding from heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul has killed 39 people, according to local authorities, with the death toll expected to rise as dozens remain unaccounted-for....