Luciana Gimenez was a six-foot vision in green plumes, prancing ahead of the drum section of the popular samba school Imperatriz Leopoldinense.

NPR: Carnival in Rio: A Party Like No Other

Representatives of Latin America and the Caribbean gathered on 20 June at Solar da Imperatriz, in Rio, for a Meeting of the National Committees of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP).

UNESCO: Programa Hidrol??gico Internacional: Parallel event acknowledges advances on the water management issue at Rio+20