"Coffee prices expected to hit up to $12 a cup by end of 2025"

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(#Australia dollars, so $7.50 #USA dollars)

'supply chain management Professor Vinh Thai explained in August that there are “several factors...

First is the havoc wreaked by extreme #weather on key supply markets such as #Brazil and #Vietnam”'

Will this make #right wing morons finally acknowledge #climatechange?

Nah

They will invent a narrative that blames the #left

A couple kisses as fireworks light up the sky over Copacabana Beach during New Year’s celebrations, #Brazil

Photograph: Bruna Prado/AP

@photography
#NewYear

Believers of Afro-Brazilian religions pay tribute to #Yemanja, goddess of the sea, during a traditional New Year's eve celebration in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, #Brazil. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

@photography
#NewYear

A fire in a sugar cane plantation near Dumon city, #Brazil, August 24. REUTERS/Joel Silva

#wildfire

A boat navigating at the confluence point between the Rio Negro and the Rio Solimoes, to continue into the Amazon river near Manaus, Amazonas state, #Brazil, September 21. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

#rivers

Smoke from a fire rising into the air as trees burn amongst vegetation in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, #Brazil, June 11. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

#wildfire

A fire from burning vegetation in Amazon rainforest, in Apui, Amazonas state, #Brazil, August 8. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

#wildfire

Symbols of the Confederacy have been removed from an annual festival in Brazil.

A geographer explores how a small Brazilian town became an unexpected battleground over Confederate memory and memorials. theconversation.com/how-a-smal…
@histodons #Histodons @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon#racism #confederacy #latinamerica #brazil

How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory

‘Ours is the only city in Brazil where the Confederate flag flies,’ said a city council member in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste. A new law there bans ‘symbols that promote racist and segregationist ideas.’

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A drone view shows #CocaCola boxes and bottles floating in the water outside a bottling facility amid #flooding in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, #Brazil, May 19. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

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A drone view shows boats stranded on the Rio Negro as the river reached its lowest point in its history during the most intense and widespread #drought the country has experienced since records began in 1950, in Manaus, Amazonas state, #Brazil, October 4. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

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#rivers

Amanda Sousa Ribeiro, 18, Aldeani dos santos Pereira Sousa, 31, Manoel Lopes Ribeiro, 65, and other residents #pray for the forest, food, health and protection during a church meeting at Manoel’s house amid a severe #drought, at Prainha 1 community in Tapajos National Forest, Para state, #Brazil, October 10. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

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Stranded boats sit on sandbanks exposed due to a drought at the Solimoes River, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon River, during the most intense and widespread #drought Brazil has experienced since records began in 1950, near Manacapuru, Amazonas state, #Brazil, September 30. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

@photography

People are rescued after f#looding in Canoas, at the Rio Grande do Sul state, #Brazil, May 5. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

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An airplane sitting on a #flooded runway at the airport in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, #Brazil, May 17. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

@photography

Joao Engelmann, 54-year-old farmer, opens a washing machine full of muddy water after #floods at the Integracao Gaucha settlement in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, #Brazil, May 10. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

@photography

A young male Antarctic fur seal, named JOCA by biologists, and likely carried by Antarctic ocean currents, makes a rare appearance on Ipanema beach, #Brazil, earlier this week. Bathers watched from a safe distance as the marine mammal rolled in the sand, visibly tired but showing no apparent injuries.

Photograph: Bob Karp/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

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#FurSeals

Saudi art exhibition in Rio offers poetic journey

#brazil #SaudiArabia #art #museums
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Saudi art exhibition in Rio offers poetic journey

The desert and cultural traditions are key themes in the "Poetic Illuminations" exhibition by Saudi artists at Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro.

^{Marcos Carrieri (ANBA News Agency)}