A brilliant fireball meteor with Moon-like magnitude streaked and disintegrated over Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil on December 30 at 10:35 p.m. local time, captured by Heller & Jung Observatory in Taquara as it entered at 92 km altitude and extinguished at 35 km near Santana do Livramento. Observatory director Carlos Fernando Jung called it potentially the last major fireball of 2025 after an active year of unrecorded events, with Reuters verifying video timestamps and locations.​

Spectacular Fireball Meteor Illuminates Rio Grande do Sul Skies!

A federal court has ruled against Texas’s attempts to stymie illegal migrants from crossing America’s southern border by installing large floating barriers on the Rio Grande river.

Court orders Texas to remove floating buoys on Rio Grande in major win for Biden admin

A dead body was discovered floating in the controversial floating barriers which were installed by the authorities in Texas to block migrants from crossing into the United States, said the Mexican government on Wednesday (August 2).

Dead body of a migrant found stuck to 'floating barriers' installed on Rio Grande river

The Rio Grande is the fifth-longest river in North America, and biologists have travelled to a section of the dry riverbed where it usually flows to save endangered fish.

As the Rio Grande dries up, biologists save endangered fish

For the migrants, desperation outweighs fear and thousands crossed the Rio Grande river only to enter eagle pass with nothing but a barrage and baggage of physical and emotional wounds.

WION Fineprint | Migrants' desperation outweighs fear on US border

Dozens of Nicaraguans are planning to migrate to the United States in anticipation of the dangerous crossing of the Rio Grande at the US border. Soon-to-be migrants are taking swimming lessons in the country.

Nicaraguans learn to swim to cross deadly Rio Grande at US border

Shocking images of a drowned Salvadoran migrant and his two-year-old daughter who died while trying to cross the Rio Grande river from Mexico to the United States have sparked outrage, underscoring the dangers faced by asylum-seekers.

US migration crisis: Father, daughter from El Salvador drown trying to cross border

Images of drowned Salvadoran migrant and 2-year-old child stir outrage

Authorities in Texas reported seven migrant deaths on Monday, including those of a woman, two babies and a toddler, showing the danger of extreme summer heat as Central American families surge across the US-Mexico border.

Seven migrant deaths reported in 'extreme heat' along US border

Sergio Hernandez, 15, was playing around with friends on the dry riverbed of the Rio Grande which separates the two countries

Teen playing on Mexico side of border shot by US cop, case now in Supreme Court

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