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02/03/2012 • Sky Bingo Help Tackle Climate Change With Their Latest Promotion LONDON, February 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Sky Bingo, the online bingo experts, have teamed with Sky Rainforest Rescue and WWF UK, aiming to raise £500 for the Amazon rainforest campaign. Throughout February, ... Read article

01/18/2012 • Rainforest in Transition: Is the Amazon Transforming before Our Eyes? The Amazon rainforest is in flux, thanks to agricultural expansion and climate change. In other words, humans have "become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon Basin," as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in Nature on January 19. ( Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group ... Read article

01/29/2012 • Amazon rainforest mapped in unprecedented detail Scientists record Amazon's structure and biodiversity by bouncing laser beams off forest 400,000 times per second Five thousand metres above the most biodiverse corner of the Amazon, tropical ecologist Greg Asner and his team see a kaleidoscope of colours among a mass of green. Huddled in a twin-engine Dornier 228 aeroplane called the Carnegie Airborne Observatory , the scientists are capturing ... Read article

01/31/2012 • Peruvian Scientists To Laser Map Amazon Rainforest LIMA, Jan 31 (BERNAMA- NNN-ANDINA) - Scientists in Peru will record Amazon's structure and biodiversity by bouncing laser beams off the forest 400,000 times per second. Read article

01/23/2012 • In Brazil, Protection of Amazon Rainforest Takes a Step Back Since Dilma Rousseff was elected president, the government has shifted its stance on the Amazon to side more with agricultural interests. Read article

01/31/2012 • Leave isolated Amazon natives alone, Peru says Peruvian officials on Tuesday urged outsiders to stay away from isolated Amazon basin rainforest natives after pictures of "uncontacted" tribe members were published online. Read article

02/01/2012 • REDD: Saving the Amazon rainforest LIMA — Currently, some 20 percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions come from deforestation — more than from global transport. read more Read article

01/16/2012 • Saving the Amazon Rainforest Global donations to Ecuador’s project to trade clean energy for Amazonian oil mean the rainforest stays intact for now. Read article

01/31/2012 • Samba99 Launches First Guarana Superfruit Energy Bar -- Delivering an Organic, Gluten-Free Caffeine Kick BROOKLYN, NY-- - From the Amazon River Delta, Samba99 today introduced the first guarana superfruit energy bar on the market -- Samba99 Guarana. Guarana is a completely natural energy booster, sustainably ... Read article

02/01/2012 • Amazon tribe's continued isolation urged A handout photograph made available by Survival Internatinal shows a couple of uncontacted indigenous people from the Mashco-Piro tribe at the Manu National Park, Southeastern Peru, in November 2011. (EPA/Diego Cortijo/Survival International) LIMA (AFP) – Peruvian officials on Tuesday urged outsiders to stay away from isolated Amazon basin rainforest natives after pictures of ''uncontacted ... Read article

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