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03/13/2010 • UN climate change claims on rainforests were wrong, study suggests (Daily Telegraph) Nasa study finds the most serious drought in the Amazon for more than a century had little impact on rainforest's vegetation. Read article

03/11/2010 • James Boyce: What's Up With the Rainforest: Science in the Amazon (The Huffington Post) We live in a far too complex and interconnected world to expect there is an easy way out in solving our environmental crisis. We can't... Read article

03/14/2010 • Ecuador's Chevron claim has more delays (San Francisco Chronicle) Another ruling, another few years to tack onto a case that has already lasted 17 years. And those at the bottom of the legal chain - indigenous peoples in the Ecuadoran Amazon - remain no better off than when the contest began. We speak, of course, about the $... Ecuador - Chevron Corporation - Indigenous People - South America - Ethnicity Read article

03/14/2010 • It's always bad news for the IPCC [Deltoid] (ScienceBlogs) Back in 2007 a paper, Amazon Forests Green-Up During 2005 Drought , was published in Science : Coupled climate-carbon cycle models suggest that Amazon forests are vulnerable to both long- and short-term droughts, but satellite observations showed a large-scale photosynthetic green-up in intact evergreen forests of the Amazon in response to a short, intense drought in 2005. These findings suggest ... Read article

03/08/2010 • Amazon Defense Coalition: Chevron Faces Critical Hearing over Ecuador Rainforest Contamination in New York Federal Court (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) NEW YORK----Chevron will be forced to explain to a U.S. federal judge this Wednesday why it believes it has the right to take the seven-year Ecuador environmental case to a closed-door binding arbitration where the rainforest communities cannot appear, in apparent violation of the company’s previous promises that it would litigate the case in its requested forum of Ecuador. Read article

03/12/2010 • IPCC Rainforest eco-tastrophe claim confirmed as bunk (The Register) Official UN website still shows it as fact, though More bad news today for the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as another of its extravangant ecopocalypse predictions, sourced from green campaigners, has been confirmed as bunk by scientists.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud Read article

03/10/2010 • Officials and Professors Discuss Preservation of Amazon (The Harvard Crimson) Brazilian politicians and Harvard professors discussed yesterday the challenges of conservation and development in the Amazon region. Read article

03/10/2010 • IPCC Errors Prompt Review by International Science Academies (Scientific American) African crop yields wither, along with the Amazon rainforest; Himalayan glaciers disappear by 2035. These are the erroneous predictions ascribed to the most recent report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)--a document reviewed by some 2,500 scientists and other experts as well as vetted by more than 190 countries. So does the fact that a few errors crept into a more ... Read article

03/10/2010 • Meeting on deforestation boosts morale, budget (San Francisco Chronicle) A conference bringing together more than 60 nations Thursday added $1 billion to the fight against deforestation and boosted the morale of those hoping to save the world's forests _ a key defense against global warming. Three months after a morose ending to... Climate change - Deforestation - Nicolas Sarkozy - Amazon Rainforest - Environment Read article

03/12/2010 • Woods Keeps Golf Guessing (New York Times) Tiger Woods was back in the headlines again, not that there was any news to report. Read article

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