Hundreds of scientists and Indigenous leaders have asked the EU to demand tougher imports standards to protect Brazil’s rainforests, wetlands and savannahs.
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Anything is possible in the world of computers games – except women who fight, apparently.
Last week Brazil opened thousands of kilometres of previously protected Amazon rainforest to mining, in a bid to combat ongoing political and economic disasters.
Since the epics of the Homeric poets, there have been tales of the mysterious, war-like Amazon women. The myth is likely based on the ‘strong, free’ women of the nomadic Scythian tribe.
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