Stories: Rio
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This Abandoned Island Near Rio Could Be in Store for a Miraculous Comeback
Ilha Seca is the closest island to Rio, but humans have barely touched it in the last half century, leaving it overgrown with weeds and dotted with crumbling buildings. Now it's newsworthy, thanks to the 2016 Olympics sailing competition, which will happen in the surrounding Guanabara Bay. The Bay has been making headlines for its...
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Large Alligator-Like Creatures Are Living Around Rio’s Olympic Sites
In Florida, you don't have to look too far to find alligators. And in Rio de Janeiro, you only have to poke your head into one of the city's many waterways to get a good look at a caiman, an alligator-like animal with a wide snout and narrow teeth. When the 2016 Olympics roll...
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The Site of Several 2016 Olympic Aquatic Events Has 195 Times the Safe Amount of Sewage in the Water
Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes … “Ew, what’s that smell?” At Ipanema beach in January, the organization Meu Rio staged a protest in an attempt to make it known that thousands of gallons of raw sewage are dumped into the ocean off Rio’s coast...