she wrote that she stabbed the employee in the incarceration facility because he had been a soldier in Iraq.

head of the environmental group SOS Pantanal.a group of monkeys rushes to devour bananas and eggs left for them by volunteers.

We call it gray hunger when fire reduces all the vegetation to ashes and there are no natural food sources left in the area for animals that survive the flames.But in recent weeks it has been ravaged by fires that are threatening its iconic wildlife.A dead crocodile is seen as forest fires rage in the Pantanal wetland in Porto Jofre.

Nearly one-third of the park has been hit by fires in the past month.the corpse of another sits rotting on the bank.

with normally flooded areas reduced to shriveled ponds.

home to the worlds largest jaguar population.When we were left stranded far away from our home cities.

When airport PA systems announced flights were canceled because there were no pilots assigned.and many other personal reasons.

howling wind and sub-zero temperatures forced the cancellation of thousands of flights in recent days.The perfect storm of fierce snow squalls.