Petrolina
Americannoun
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“If you leave a patch of the Atlantic rainforest it starts to grow back in 6 or 8 years,” says Renato Garcia Rodrigues, an ecologist at Univasf Petrolina.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 8, 2022
In the earlier case, prosecutors alleged that Sovfracht tried to pay an oil company in Cyprus, Petrolina, around $2.5 million “for the supply of fuel.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2018
Sudene meanwhile is taking a giant step with a $90 million irrigation project at Petrolina that will water 250,000 long-parched acres in Bahia and Pernambuco.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Petrolina is on this side, Joazeiro on that.
From Through stained glass by Chamberlain, George Agnew
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