In most cases, Maya cities encircled the bajos, so archaeologists thought the culture made no use of them. But groundbreaking satellite images show that the bajos harbor ancient drainage canals and long-overgrown fields. That ingenious method of agriculture may have backfired.

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MANAUS, Brazil — Alarmed at recent indications of climate change here in the Amazon and in other regions of Brazil, the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has begun showing signs of new flexibility in the tangled, politically volatile international negotiations  …

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Slash and burn cutting of tropical forest in Colombia led to massive landslides that claimed the lives of seven people last week.

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Rafael's biological mother, an ex FARC guerrilla, left him under the care of a couple living on a quiet farm in Puerto Rico, Meta, located in central Colombia, when Rafael was just one year old, hoping that Rafael would have a peaceful life on the farm.

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Slash and Burn - The Republican Strategy in the War on Terror

The moniker "cut and run" has been applied to Democrats who dare speak out against the failed strategies in Iraq.

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