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'Dozens die' in south Brazil fire

Fire in a nightclub in southern Brazil leaves at least 90 dead, local media reporting. Ref. BBC

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A Brazilian nightclub where hundreds died in a fire Sunday was about 1,000 people over capacity at the time of the blaze, a fire official said.

"When I arrived, we analyzed the preliminary scene and saw that there was a 1,000 maximum capacity but we understood there were about 2,000 there," said Guido de Melo, a fire official.

The fire killed at least 245 people, many of whom apparently died from smoke inhalation, police said. Ref. CNN

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Agricultural fires in Brazil harm infant health, a warning for the developing world

Exposure to pollution from agricultural fires in the last few months of gestation leads to earlier birth and smaller babies, researchers have found. The results offer a warning to the developing world, where such fires are common. Ref. Source 3z.

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World watches ‘global emergency’ unfold. Alarmed Brazilians have declared an “apocalypse” as the worst rainforest fires in history ravage the Amazon, plunging a city into darkness. Source 6x.

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Why is the world up in arms over this? For years Brazil has been systematically destroying the forest through deforestation which in the end is the same thing.