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Featured Article: Thiago Henrique Silva de Almeida

The Amazon rainforest is responsible for having the highest biodiversity in the world spread

across about seven million square kilometers, and is present in Brazil, Peru, Colombia,

Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.

Actually the Amazon rainforest is being much deforested, but this is not a recent problem, and

dates from the colonization of Brazil. It is estimated that 10% of the entire flora of the planet

is present in the Amazon with over 5000 species of trees, so its devastation has many impacts

on the planet, such as the reduction of biodiversity, soil erosion, degradation of watershed

areas, release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, reducing the moisture in the air, and social

environmental and economic imbalance.

The total area of the Legal Amazon (as it is called the area that belongs to Brazil) according to

the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) is the equivalent of 5,217,423 km ² today, but

only since 1988 have been devastated 392,021 km ², and if there is a drastic decrease in the

rate of deforestation in the very near future there may be no more rainforest.

Featured article: Thiago Henrique de Faria

12/12/12

       A few months ago, USA was ruined by Sandy’s hurricane. Cities were destroyed, people lost their houses and a lot of things that they worked hard to get, it was a crushing occurrence.

       Some artists, singers and famous people decided to make a big show with all of them with intention to help the victims of Sandy’s hurricane. All the payment will be donate to help the victims, besides during the show donations will be accept for all the world.

The show will be broadcasted to most of 40 countries around the word live from  Madison Square Garden, Nova York in 12/12/12. The most waited in the show, in my own opinion, is Roger Waters, ex-Pink Floyd, he will sing with his actually band and also will do a duet with Eddie Vedder, vocalist of Pearl Jam.

I’ll watch the show hopeful that he gets their objectives.

Testimonial - Luiz Carlos e Lucas Miranda

Usually in our time,puverty and people living on street have in every place, people that didn’t have one chance in your life, because your family was poverty or other problem, usually have one difficult in yor life.

Almost always that one person don’t get one chance, he has one difficult life, many street people is that because of this, they start steal, intensifying the violency in streets, the drogs traffic and others. In my opnion the solution is to give for these people one chance to creaty his futeres, with this, the violency will decrease, having one place better for to live.


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Testemunho - Natalia e Thiago

Natalia Carneiro de Castro
Thiago Henrique de Faria

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Feature Article - Natalia Carneiro

Amazonia's devastation

Located in South America, the Amazon Forest represents a big part of the continent. It’s present in nine countries: Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Equator, Suriname, Guiana and Guiana Francesa. The forest’s devastation began in 1970, when the military government decided to go in to the territory to avoid the risk of losing it. Since then the man has destroyed the forest in many ways. Nowdays the Amazon is being chased by Brazil’s economic advance with activities like cutting wood plantations, mineral extraction and hydroelectric.

The Amazon’s total deforestation in 1991 was 8,4% (426.400 km²), but nowadays it has reached 14,6% (739.928 km²). Mostly, the burns are illegal and were made to open space for cows and plantations, which the main is the soybean, that is responsible for 57% of the Brazilian emission of gases. From, 2000 to 2005, Brazil issued a total of 2,2 billion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere. Beyond this, degradation can also be caused  by the illegal tree cutting, designated to the illegal trading.

One of the deforestation’s consequences is the extinction of different species. Many of them can help healing diseases, are used for feeding or as new raw material, are not known by the man and run the risk of been destroyed before the scientists discover them. Beyond affecting the biodiversity (the Amazon houses more than 30% of the mundial biodiversity), the deforestation affects, a lot, the local population’s life that without the resources diversity from the biggest river of the planet, find themselves without the possibility of granting their own survival, been dependents of the help from the government and from non-governmental organizations.

Although all these problems are still happening, we can see a significant decrease comparating with the past. The people environmental awareness is been alerted for the necessity of preservation. NGOs like Greenpeace, SOS Mata Atlântica, WWF, IPAM and many others, make campaigns and researches with the objective of publishing and making the sustainable development and the degradable areas recuperation easier. About the government activities, 19.440.402 hectares were converted into conservation unities in Amazon from 2002 until 2006, totalizating 29.921.322 hectares, the same of 9,98% of the territory.

It can be concluded that there’s a huge problem in our country, however, as we can see, there are many people working in solutions, but without all the population’s help this job Will be much harder or maybe impossible. We all should take part f the fight for Amazon’s salvation!

Natalia Carneiro de Castro

Article - Victor Filipe

Noise Pollution

The noise pollution is moderate problem because affected the social tranquility and sometimes, affected too the health of the peoples.

The hazards of noise pollution are many and varied. For example, people exposed to noise levels reaching 110 db may reveal mental trauma, deafness, physical fatigue and hypertension, cardiovascular disease, insomnia, peptic ulcer, eczema and asthma. Psychologists are of the opinion that prolonged exposure to noise for a day alone, may lead to severe mental disorientation, and in a few cases, result in a violent behavior.

So, I conclude that noise pullution must be fought for not moving towards a green world but noisy.