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• Patti Smith collapses on stage in Brazil after suffering days-long migraine

  30-01-2025 15:49
  
  The poet, author and musician fell during a performance with Soundwalk Collective, who later posted ‘she is being cared for by the best doctors’Patti Smith collapsed during a performance in Brazil after experiencing a severe migraine for several days. Smith, 78, was performing with the Berlin group Soundwalk Collective, in which she recites her writing to a musical backing.Associated Press reported that the newspaper Folha de S Paulo said that Smith passed out about 30 minutes into t
  
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• In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why

  30-01-2025 08:00
  
  Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going onSomething was happening to the birds at Tiputini. The biodiversity research centre, buried deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, has always been special. It is astonishingly remote: a tiny scattering of research cabins in 1.7m hectares (4.2m acres) of virgin forest. For scientists, it comes about as close as you can to observing rainforest wildlife
  
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