【推荐1】There are four fun festivals throughout the year in Brazil.

Festa Junina

Festa Junina is celebrated all over Brazil for the entire month of June as a yearly celebration of Saint John. It celebrates country life with typical clothes, food and dances inside a large tent, with decorations such as colored flags, beautiful table cloths and balloons.

Oktoberfest

The Germanic roots of the south of Brazil brought this traditional German festival to Brazil, where it has become one of the most popular beer festivals. Held in the middle of October every year in Blumenau, it celebrates typical German cuisine and plenty of beer. There’re all kinds of German foods at the festival.

Festival de Cachaça

Every year in the town of Paraty, Festival de Cachaça is held for cachaça, the national alcohol (酒) made from sugarcane (甘蔗). This festival is held over a long weekend in August and it gives you a chance to try cachaça. There are also shows of samba (桑巴舞) and food trucks. It’s also a great opportunity to get to know the beautiful town of Paraty.

Parintins Folklore Festival

The festival held every year in Parintins is the second largest in Brazil after the carnival. It goes over a period of three days at the end of June and celebrates the Amazonian legend of a resurrected ox (复活的牛). The main attraction of the festival is the competition between the two teams Garantido and Caprichoso that compete to retell the story of the ox through a mix of dancing and singing.

【推荐3】Sweet Bee’s Honey Festival & Country Fair 2020

Sweet Bee’s Honey Festival & Country Fair is a fun and delicious way to celebrate the incredible work of the honeybee on June 14.

Your ticket to Sweet Bee’s Honey Festival & Country Fair includes:

◎ Tastings & sales of local, regional and international honeys

◎ Admission to all of the Museum Village’s exhibits

◎ Live bluegrass music by the Breakneck Annie Band

◎ Meet Museum Village’s farm animals

◎ See Museum Village’s own active beehive

◎ Free face painting for children

Tickets are available online for just $15/adult & $10/child (age 4—12)

VIP Tickets ($35/each) include a Honey Festival bag, a VIP badge, a special surprise Honey Festival gift, a Museum Village souvenir and a VIP guided tour of museum Village at 12 pm & 2 pm.

Tickets purchased at the door are $21/adult & $16/child (ages 4—12)

Children under 4 years old are free at this location.

A “Late Day Special” ticket is available online for just $10/person (all ages, 4 and up) for the last two hours of the Honey Festival between 3 pm and 5 pm when crowds are typically smaller and the atmosphere is more relaxing. Most vendors (摊贩) still have plenty of goods, and plenty of products are typically available for purchase during this later part of the day. “Late Day Special” tickets purchased at the door are $16/person (all ages, 4 and up).

Please note that “Late Day Special” ticket holders will NOT be admitted before 3 pm.

Tickets purchased online will be sent to you electronically in a PDF file. Print out these tickets and bring them to Sweet Bee’s Honey Festival & Country Fair. You may also purchase tickets on your mobile phone using the Eventbrite App. We can scan your ticket barcode directly.

Parking: There is free parking onsite at Museum Village. Free shuttle buses will be available, and there is also a walkway from Lot B to the Museum.

Please visit our website www.HoneyFestival.com for more information.

【推荐1】Climate change will bring and has already brought a wide variety of threatening destruction to human existence. Some of these are well-known and already operative, like the wildfires racing along California’s freeways or the permanent droughts that have been upsetting Mediterranean farmers. But are these all terrible disasters we can come up with that are brought about by climate change?

Absolutely not. None of the challenges posed by our warming climate has appeared larger in the popular imagination than sea-level rise, as global populations and wealth are heavily concentrated in low-lying coastal cities. The best available models suggest that 37 million people currently live in places that will be below high tide by 2050-in an optimistic low-carbon-emissions scenario (设想).

Or rather, that’s what such models suggested before this week. On Tuesday, a new study revealed that those alarming statistics were wildly inaccurate. The actual impacts of sea-level rise are going to be much, much worse.

Previous estimates of the impact that rising tides would have on coastal cities relied on essentially a three-dimensional map of Earth obtained from satellite readings. But those readings were fundamentally unreliable because they often measured the planet’s upper surfaces — such as treetops and tall buildings — rather than its ground level. These mistakes led scientists to overestimate the elevation (海拔) of many regions of Earth.

In a new study published by the journal Nature Communications, scientists from Princeton, University detail this methodological problem, then use artificial intelligence to determine the previous literature’s error rate. Their research yields some amazing updates to our conventional understanding of what the next century has in store for our coastlines.

In its optimistic scenario, the Princeton study projects that lands currently occupied by 150 million people will lie below high tide in 2050. But as warming destroys many of the world’s agricultural regions, climate change could accelerate migration from rural areas to coastal cities.

The new study does include one piece of slightly encouraging news. While previous models suggested that 28 million humans currently live in places that already lie below high tide, the actual number is closer to 110 million — which means seawalls and other barriers have proven sufficient to keep many cities dry even as sea levels have risen around them. Still, the scale of barrier construction necessary to save low-lying cities from collapse is now, apparently, far greater than previously understood when the task already looked terribly expensive, particularly for developing countries.

If the Princeton researchers’ projections are correct, avoiding mass death and suffering in the coming decades will require not only rapidly reducing carbon emissions and strengthening construction of seawalls but also furthering mass migrations away from low-lying cities and islands and toward higher ground.

【推荐3】Parts of Africa are covered by a dark cloud. But this is no rain cloud. It is a living cloud made of billions of locusts(蝗虫) that are travelling across the continent eating everything in their path.

And now in the battle to stop this disaster, a radio station in Senegal, West Africa, is offering listeners 50 kilograms of rice if they can catch and kill 50 kilograms of locusts. “We think this idea will get more people to take part in the war on the locusts,” said Abdoulaye Ba, from Sud-FM, a radio station in one of Senegal’s worst affected areas.

This is West Africa’s biggest locust disaster in 15 years, and it is moving east, causing huge damage to crops. As they move they produce young and increase their number and will soon threaten(威胁) Sudan in the northeast of Africa. Some say it could reach Asia.

Experts say the harmful effect on crops in areas already suffering from food shortage and war could cause many people to go hungry. Governments in the areas are not well equipped to fight the pest.

Although leaders of 12 countries have agreed on a plan, it is not expected to be enough. “We are now treating 6, 000 hectares(公顷) per day with pesticide(杀虫剂), but we need to treat 20, 000 hectares per day in order to have any hope of controlling this disaster,” said Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah, director of locust control in Mauritania.

“Requests are being made for international aid, which is the only way to limit the disaster,” the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations warned.