The Brazilian Congress is analyzing a bill that would leave all the country s non-forestry vegetation unprotected, affecting an area twice the size of the United Kingdom.
Not far from Latin America's biggest city, Sao Paulo, a river is covered in a white layer that resembles fresh snow but is in fact a smelly, toxic foam. A tributary of the Parana river, the waterway has been covered in a visible foam layer since last week, at one point spread over more than 10 kilometers and also spotted blighting several waterfalls.