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media type="custom" key="9612874" ** Rio de Janiero’s Beaches ** This article focuses on the best beaches of Rio De Janiero. Copacabana, Ipanema, Leblon, are well known beaches in Rio de Janiero. They have yet to lose their appeal to tourist from all around the world. The culture here is thriving.  It also discusses some of the concerns visitors of theses beaches have, such as the social issues and the heritage of some of the surrounding neighborhoods. Slums lay just beyond the seaside hills, and crime remains an issue throughout Rio. Though the beach is among the safer spots in the city, tourist are still advised to use their street smarts, particularly at night. **Amazon: The Lost World ** This article focuses on a man named Keith Bellows. He begins by talking about telling about his childhood and his father’s love for the Amazon. Fifty years later he is exploring the Amazon town of Nauta in the region Loreto. Throughout his experience he learns many things about the amazon. He also discovers many things that are not known by most. The Amazon is the world’s largest river by volume. The scale of the Amazon is an astonishing 28miles wide, on average. During the rainy season, the mouth of the river can be 300 miles across, dumping 7.1 million cubic feet of water per second into the ocean. This is 60 times the discharge of the Nile and 11 times that of the Mississippi.

** Forest Loss Slows ** This article discusses that in 2008, over 17 percent of the Amazon rainforest had been cleared for agriculture and other development. In Brazil the rate of deforestation has decreased in recent years. This is because of a variety of incentives that could possibly provide a model for other regions. Policies like the ones in Brazil recently may help preserve those forests. Other than stepping up enforcement of the strict laws on deforestation in the nation, Brazil reduced the availability of bank loans to large agricultural producers. They also boosted incentives to increase agricultural production on lands already cleared and increased public awareness campaigns about deforestation. Deforestation losses in Brazil’s nation dropped from 28,000 square kilometers in 2004 to about 7,500 square kilometers in 2009 that’s a decrease of almost 74 percent. ** Oldest Woman ** Maria Gomes Valentim now holds the Guinness World Record for Oldest Living Person. The Brazilian woman is 48 days older than the former record-holder at 114 years and 313 days. Valentim was married in 1913 and has been widowed for over half a century. She has one son, four grandchildren, seven great-great grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren to keep her company, though. Valentim says her secret to long living is she starts every morning with coffee, bread and fruit. She also and enjoys the occasional glass of wine. So in short, there is no secret. ** Crisis Cabinet ** This article focuses on the sudden, unexpected spike in Brazil’s deforestation levels. After the drastic drop of deforestation levels, not even the environmental minister knew what to say. There was a 27% spike between August 2010, to now, which was considered quite alarming. She was forced to announce a “crisis cabinet.” That led to a debate over Brazil's forest code; an environmental legislation under which farms and settlements have to conserve 80% of the forest on their land as 'Legal Reserves.' There were many pros, such as saving wild life; along with many cons, such as lowering the economy.