Soy Harvest on the Jotabasso farm in Mato Grosso do Sul state, April 8, 2006. Brazil is the world's second biggest producer of soy, and its exports help drive the Brazilian economy. Environmentalists claim the massive monoculture is bad for the land and the expansion of the industry fuels rainforest destruction.(Australfoto/Douglas Engle)
Petrobras' P-43 Platform ship in the Campos Basin, of the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, June 1, 2006. The platform has a capacity of producing 150,000 barrels of oil per day and has even surpassed the limit when it produced 188,836 barrels in Feb. 2006. (Douglas Engle/Australfoto)