While the Amazon Rainforest is home to one of the largest biodiversities on the planet, that doesn't typically include whales. In Northern Brazil, a beached whale has appeared and scientists are scurrying to find out how exactly.
Story originally found on IFLScience.
In a pretty-much universally offensive Photoshop FAIL, Vogue Brazil decided to superimpose disabilities on their own able-bodied models in a promotion for the Paralymics instead of using ACTUAL Paralympians.
The Paralympians were okay with it...
...but we're still not. We'd rather see more barrier-breaking pics of these AMAZING athletes:
Read more about it here.
Olympics commentary finally was worth watching this weekend, when a Bachelorette party crashed the BBC's coverage
This is the beautiful moment when a hen party crashed BBC Four's late-night Olympic coverage. pic.twitter.com/urlBmFzzKA
— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) August 14, 2016
The bride, Maria, refused to end her 15 Minutes of Fame, but paid back the favor by giving the network some free publicity by having her party chant "BBC! BBC!" for the cameras...
The commentator, Scott Bryan, didn't seem to mind...
...and even followed up with her the next day
The cutie finally ended her brief guest starring role by signing off with the "call me" sign....
Here's to hoping her husband doesn't mind her public lack of marital commitment.
Get in the mood for the upcoming Olympics with this amazing video!(I love the crocodiles doing their thing!)
Roberta Bernardo, a 19-year-old student from São Paulo, Brazil, has a new friend.
Her new friend is a potato. The potato is named Potato.
It all started when she went to the supermarket and noticed this happy looking potato baby. Naturally, she decided to purchase the little darling and adopt it as her own.
Then she bathed Potato.
And gave Potato a makeover.
Sexy Potato.
Bernardo has been keeping Potato in the fridge so she doesn't rot.
"Life is ephemeral," Bernardo told BuzzFeed Brazil. "I believe she will live these moments as if they were the last, enjoying the laurels of fame."
You can follow Potato's adventures over on her fan page.
You know what we never get? Good news about climate change.
Well, not today!
Norway is making good on its commitment to give the country of Brazil $1 billion on the condition of reducing the deforestation crisis that claimed many square miles over the past fifty years.
Quartz has the details:
In 2008, when the Amazon was facing a severe deforestation crisis, Norway, a country made rich from oil and gas production (and the biggest donor to protect tropical rainforests), pledged $1 billion to the government of Brazil if it could slow down the destruction. Doing so would protect the forest's wildlife and also enormously reduce climate-harming greenhouse gas emissions, which are produced when forests are burned to make way for human development.
Brazil has more than risen to the task. By enforcing strict protection laws, promoting education efforts, and withholding loans to local counties that clear too much of the forest, the country has scaled back its forest destruction rate by 75%. It's estimated that Brazilian farmers and ranchers have saved more than 33,000 square miles (roughly 53,100 square kilometers) of forest—equivalent to 14.3 million soccer fields—from being cut down.
This week, an applauding Norwegian government said it will pay out the country's final $100 million—rounding out its $1 billion promise—to Brazil at a December UN summit on climate change.
Brazil gets money, the rainforest remains protected and the planet gets more trees to filter out the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
It's win win win!
Also, welcome to the club, Brazil!
You shouldn't rob anyone, but you definitely shouldn't rob someone who is a professional MMA fighter.
MMA strawweight Monique Bastos was on her way to the gym when two men attempted to steal her cell phone. Little did they know, she could very easily defend herself.
The entire encounter was posted to Reddit, and user 1Ender provided a rough translation of the man being held in a "triangle" by Bastos.
So just remember would-be robbers, tread lightly. You may just get ahold of someone like Bastos.
A Brazilian stray dog had quite a tough life on the street that left him with no exercise and extra helpings of unhealthy food.
Once ridiculed for his 80 pounds as he made his way around with great difficulty due to bad joints and breathing problems, the committed canine has a new leash lease on life.
This amazing jellyfish-like creature is known as a Portuguese Man o' War (or Caravela Portuguesa) and was found on a beach in Olivenca, Bahia, Brazil. This siphonophore has many venomous tentacles that have an extremely painful sting.
This video was released by the military police of São Paulo, Brazil. Sneaky swindlers were recently caught after installing fake ATM fronts at banks.
In Laguna, Brazil, dolphins herd fish toward fishermen on the beach and then signal them when to toss their nets. The dolphins then get to feast on the fish that are not caught. This is an untrained behavior and has been going on since the mid 1800's.
Brazil's Silvio Santos Program—the folks behind the scary elevator prank video that went viral last month—brings yet another edition of a brilliant prank in the elevator, this time with a corpse in a coffin.
