Recent sightings of Portuguese man-of-war within the Madeira archipelago have been sporadic; however the substantial quantity discovered on Prainha beach warrants attention The Portuguese man-of-war’s venom is comparable to a black widow spider’s potentially resulting in permanent scarring from third-degree burns This organism lacks independent locomotion; its gas bladder (extending up to 15 cm above the water’s surface) allows wind and currents to dictate its movement Its coloration ranges from bluish to pink or purple From Diário Notícias This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. 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About us Contact us By Jack NicasUpdated March 2 Share full article219219Read 219 CommentsRead 219 CommentsShare full article219219Advertisement Lightweight contender Charles Oliveira pulled off the biggest win of his career when he defeated former interim champion Tony Ferguson in the UFC 256 co-main event Dec 18-8 UFC) was back at work – only this time has spent time leading up to the holiday season donating food to the people in the community in which he grew up which has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic Oliveira shared an image of hundreds of food packages on his social media Tuesday so my friends and I decided to buy (them) food," Oliveira explained to MMA Junkie over text Thursday He said many people in town live under pieces of wood Oliveira shed light on the conditions the people in his hometown face y'all know several families struggled," Oliveira wrote in a tweet I had the opportunity of donating food to the Prainha community Check out Oliveira giving back to his humble beginnings in the series of social media posts below Matchup roundup: New UFC fights announced in the past week (Dec. 14-20) Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. TRAIRAO, Brazil (AP) — Night falls in Brazil’s Amazon and two logging trucks without license plates emerge from the jungle. They rumble over dirt roads that lead away from a national forest, carrying trunks of trees hundreds of years old. After pulling onto a darkened highway, the truckers chug to their turnoff into the woods, where they deliver their ancient cargo. By morning, the trunks are laid out for hewing at the remote sawmill, its corrugated metal roof hardly visible from the highway. The highway known as BR-163 stretches from soybean fields to a riverside export terminal. The loggers were just south of the road’s juncture with BR-230, known as the Trans-Amazon. Together the highways cover more than 5,000 miles, crossing the world’s fifth-biggest country in the state of Para. Carved through jungle during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s, the roads were built to bend nature to man’s will in the vast hinterland. Four decades later, there’s development taking shape, but also worsening deforestation — and locals harbor concerns that progress may pass them by. The highways first meet in the city of Ruropolis, where the military government promised land to lure people to the planned agricultural village. One 53-year-old man, Hilquias Soares, remembers a state agent in his hometown yelling, “Who wants to go to Para?” His family took the chance, arriving just after President Emílio Médici, a general, inaugurated the town. Archival footage shows Médici unveiling a plaque reading: “The Brazilian people respond to the challenge of history, occupying the heart of the Amazon.” Children play on see-saws and show off T-shirts with the crossroads sprawling across the continent-sized nation. “There was a dream of colonization, of getting land and seeing if here we could have better financial conditions,” Dedé Diniz, 69, said in his home. “A lot of people don’t recognize what we did, what we fought for.” Diniz examines a photograph he took of Médici and, below it in his album, a shot of a truck trapped in mud. It’s nothing like the bucolic painting on his wall that shows farm furrows and wild forest beside the highway, where a machine repairs ruts. He jokes that he’ll update the painting with asphalt soon — that stretch should be paved by 2021. Already people have started moving in from other states to buy land for cattle pastures. From Ruropolis, the Trans-Amazon and BR-163 run jointly westward over a bumpy 70 miles before splitting at a little roundabout. During corn and soy harvests, 2,600 trucks pass through each day to and from the nearby Tapajos River. There, trucks pull into transshipment ports. Grain cascades from their containers to be loaded onto barges. After a downriver trip that takes days, the grain is poured into ships’ holds and dispatched across the world, largely to China. That transoceanic network seems far removed from the road warriors filling up on grilled beef or bowls of açai in truck stops. While the truckers eat, grease-stained mechanics replace worn-out shocks and blown-out tires. At the start of Bolsonaro’s administration, only 32 miles of BR-163 from soy country to the Trans-Amazon remained to be paved. But tropical rains transformed the dirt into impassable mud. Soy trucker Sandro Vieira recalled being stuck in gridlock two years ago, consuming nothing but bread, coffee and peanuts for a week; to this day, the smell of peanuts disgusts him. Bolsonaro’s government last month finished paving the soy corridor. The decades-delayed achievement is the first of major public works to come, Infrastructure Minister Tarcísio de Freitas said. They include a $3 billion grain railway alongside BR-163. A ministry promotional video for foreign investors shows deer and other wild animals in their habitats, living in harmony with highways. “We know Brazil has a responsibility to the world, and we will fulfill our responsibility,” de Freitas said. The two highways opened up the rainforest — and viewed from above, the landscape is slashed by jagged stitches of cleared forest on both sides. Roads themselves aren’t the problem today, according to Paulo Barreto, a forest engineer and researcher at environmental group Imazon. The issue, he said, is that improved access has been accompanied by Bolsonaro’s rhetoric emboldening illegal loggers while his administration undermines its own environmental regulator. “If those things continue, deforestation will explode in the area,” Barreto said. Paulo Bezerra, a leader of the Munduruku indigenous people that live around the highways, said in an interview that farmers from Mato Grosso and other states are using tractors to rip down trees near his village, and try to intimidate tribesmen into silence. They say they’re afraid of being killed. After the global spotlight turned to Brazil in August as the Amazon burned, Bolsonaro dismissed the huge fires as normal practice for clearing pasture and farmland. What kind of development should Brazil’s government encourage, and how much, are questions being asked at the U.N.’s ongoing climate conference in Madrid. Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said in an interview in Madrid that people in the Amazon will continue to be drawn into illegal activities if there isn’t economic development. Paving BR-163 ensures soy and corn can flow uninterrupted, making viable more farming and new riverside terminals, where the government says exports can reach 25 million tons in 2024, from 10 million tons this year. More soy means more transport. Workers recently spread concrete at one gas station being built near the crossroads, with parking for 760 trucks. Edeon Ferreira, executive director of soy and corn transport group Pró-Logística, said heavier traffic will add jobs at restaurants and hotels, plus generate demand for mechanics to meet truckers’ needs. He spoke while leading a group of Mato Grosso soy farmers on a 2,900-mile circuit to inspect Amazon roadways. Ferreira said Mato Grosso can farm enough on degraded pasture, without deforestation, as cattle ranching becomes efficient. But Imazon’s Barreto said productivity gains don’t happen automatically; farmers will calculate whether it’s cheaper to invest in technology or clear forest areas made available, even tacitly, by the government. To support Amazon states, Salles said Brazil aims to shore up foreign funding from the Paris Agreement. But Brazilian officials have yet to detail measures, goals or resources for anti-deforestation efforts. The clock is ticking. Already the Amazon is growing warmer and drier, losing its capacity to recycle water, and the majority may become savannah in 15 to 30 years, said Carlos Nobre, a climate scientist at the University of Sao Paulo. Over the past two decades, soy was increasingly planted along the northern part of BR-163. On one side of the highway is the Tapajos national forest, and farmland on the other. Fires burn here and there. In one spot, the breeze carries black ash across the road into the protected area. “The national forest is a reserve that’s important for the country, for the world,” said Manoel de Souza, 59, who coordinates the Tapajos forest’s federation of traditional communities. “Soy is also important, but it should be ordered so that they aren’t on top of one another, impacting each other.” Just north of the forest is Belterra, which was jungle throughout João Ferreira’s childhood. Today, his plot is an island of shade and birdsong in the middle of sweeping plantations. He’s known as João of Honey, though none of his 1,000 beehives remain. The bees died off since agribusiness moved in 20 years ago, said João, 59. He complains that agribusiness did away with native forest, and its efficient machinery creates few jobs, leaving townspeople in the lurch. In an act of lonesome protest, he painted altered versions of the Brazilian flag and hung them over his yard. They feature question marks rather than the national motto “Order and Progress,” because he’s not sure Brazil has them any longer. “One day progress comes," he said, "and decay arrives with it.” Follow Biller on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DLBiller Follow Correa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/leo_correa AP producer Dorothee Thiesing contributed reporting from Madrid The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content. Read more stories on climate issues by The Associated Press at https://www.apnews.com/Climate Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Daily life plays out at the beaches in Rio de Janeiro: families gather for informal meals, kids play football (soccer), and young people flirt over beer and caipirinhas. Rio is famous for its beaches, from world-famous Ipanema and Copacabana to lesser-known beaches like Prainha and Vermelha. The beaches are so popular that they become the city's backyard, where Cariocas (people who live in Rio) eat, socialize, and play. 2016Save this storySaveSave this storySaveAll products featured on Vogue are independently selected by our editors we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links so we asked five Brazilian insiders to clue us in on their favorite designer stores and local gems Jot down their recommendations below—even if you aren’t going to the Olympics you’ll no doubt want to add Rio to your travel to-do list Favorite store in Rio:“There is a very cute multi-brand store called Via Flores in the middle of Leblon you will find a mix of Brazilian and international brands On women’s style in Rio:“Rio is a beach city and a very chilled-out place. I’m sure you will be fine with a pair of Havaianas and a light dress or denim shorts Rio’s best beachwear:“One of my favorite beachwear designers from Rio is Paula Hermanny, from the brand ViX.” which is a Brazilian fashion brand based on the harmonization of contrasts that brings Rio’s mood into its streetwear clothes.” On women’s style in Rio:“Rio has a unique atmosphere connected with nature It is the second biggest city in Brazil after São Paulo and the lifestyle make it completely different in terms of style—it is naturally more easygoing Best surfing in Rio:“Prainha is known by the locals as a nice place to surf and start your day with a beautiful view You’ll find it at Avenida Estado da Guanabara On his new jewelry boutique in Rio:“I am super excited about the new boutique—it is a great opportunity to show my work in a wonderful city that so many tourists from all over the world come to visit It is located in a historical building from the 1930s with spectacular architectural features that Rio is known for Favorite store in Rio:“Granado Pharmácias has great soaps I always buy something from there because it reminds me of my grandmother and her sisters.” Where to hang out in Rio:“Oscar Niemeyer’s private home It’s a real gem of Brazilian modernist architecture “Also, São Paulo’s Hotel Emiliano is opening its Rio sister hotel on Copacabana Beach in time for the Olympics It’s designed by Studio Arthur Casas and furnished with the owner’s collection of mid-century Brazilian furniture so I’m particularly looking forward to its opening and spending some time there!” On women’s style in Rio:“Brazilian style is really about a certain attitude—being comfortable with yourself and doing what you can to help the people around you feel comfortable Brazilians are all easy and friendly people Only available in Rio:“Tucum in Santa Teresa—a small colonial neighborhood in Rio—sells pieces made by indigenous tribes The proceeds are shared with the tribes and there’s always something nice to bring back home.” and there’s also an unmissable antiques fair on Praça XV on Saturdays.” where there is a restaurant with an amazing view I also love the fresh juice and the vitamin shakes you can get on every corner in Rio.” On women’s style in Rio:“As it is always very hot Favorite Rio moment:“The first time I took a flight in my life was from São Paulo to Rio and the airplane passed very close by the coast There was a beautiful sunset and it’s a memory that I will never forget—it gave me goose bumps!” Favorite stores in Rio:“Rio has many secret fashion spots, and that’s one of the amazing things about the city. I love the accessories from Lokalwear is made from discarded bones carved by women from Brazil and assembled by Lokalwear’s Rio team Plans for the Olympics:“I will ‘live’ in Rio for the Olympic month of August I am doing a headquarters event at the nearest five-star hotel which has a boat you can take to the Olympic arenas I will host meetings and talks between digital influencers I want to be out of high heels for the month Favorite restaurants in Rio:“I love to have lunch at Celeiro charming place at Leblon that just serves lunch I even tried to [get them to] open one in São Paulo The ad-free version is ready for purchase on iOS mobile app today we couldn't find that page";var n=e.querySelector("h2");return n&&n.remove(),{staticContent:e,title:t}},d=function(e){var t=document.createElement("button");return t.innerText=e,t.classList.add("error-page-button"),t},f=function(e){var t=document.createElement("div");t.id="recirculation-404",t.classList.add("brand-hint-bg");var n="\n \n \n \n \n \n '.concat(e,' Tick here if you would like us to send you the author’s response