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But that's an area more than three times the size of New York City, underscoring the challenge Lula faces to eliminate deforestation entirely.

"It's very positive, but we continue to have very high levels of deforestation," said Daniel Silva, an analyst at nonprofit WWF-Brasil.

An aerial view shows a deforested area during an operation to combat deforestation near Uruara, Para State, Brazil January 21, 2023. »

After the toddler was not found inside the house, Joel found her still strapped in her car seat unresponsive.

"The car was outside, not in a garage, not under a tree, not under any shade at all," Judd said.

Research shows us that the temperature of the car could have been anywhere between 130 and 170 degrees. »

In went artillery shells filled with deadly mustard agent that the Army had been storing for more than 70 years.

The bright yellow robots pierced, drained and washed each shell, then baked it at 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

And when they are gone, all of the world’s publicly declared chemical weapons will have been eliminated. »

As onlookers clapped and danced, a mayor of a small southern Mexico town entered into holy matrimony with a female reptile in a traditional rite to bring good fortune to his people.

Victor Hugo Sosa, mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, a town of Indigenous Chontal people in the Tehuantepec isthmus of Mexico, took as his betrothed a reptile named Alicia Adriana, re-enacting an ancestral ritual.

The reptile is a caiman, an alligator-like marsh dweller endemic to Mexico and Central America. »