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05/21/2013 • Amazon River Eats Almost All Of What The Rainforest Feeds It April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Amazon rainforest is known as the lungs of the planet because it inhales carbon dioxide and exudes oxygen into the atmosphere. The plants of the forest use the carbon dioxide to promote leafy growth, which eventually falls to the ground and decomposes or washes away from the region’s plentiful rainfall. Until recently, the belief was that ... Read article

05/22/2013 • Amazon misses the rainforest, seeks to build a giant greenhouse in Seattle You can take Amazon out of the jungle, but it'll just create one elsewhere -- at least that's what the company is planning for its inner-city Seattle office complex. A tweaked proposal for Amazon's three-block development, named "Rufus 2.0," was run by Seattle's Design Review Board yesterday, and it now includes a huge biodome structure with the notion that a "plant-rich environment has many ... Read article

05/20/2013 • Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rainforest Woody plant matter is almost completely digested by bacteria living in the Amazon River. This tough stuff plays a major part in fueling the river's breath. The finding has implications for global carbon models, and for the ecology of the Amazon and the world's other rivers. Until recently, people believed much of the rainforest's carbon floated down the Amazon River and ended up deep in the ocean. Read article

05/15/2013 • Viridian Energy Completes Fourth Trip to Brazilian Amazon; Plants 401 Trees in Mamori Region Viridian Energy , a leading provider of affordable, green energy, today announced the completion of its fourth trip to the Brazilian Amazon, continuing its decade long commitment to repair, replant and preserve the Mamori region of the Amazon rainforest. Read article

05/19/2013 • 10 Endangered Places To Visit Now Deforestation (often to create more pastures and cropland) poses the biggest threat to the largest rainforest on the planet, though rates have slowed in recent years. Home to millions of species, the Amazon is one of Earth’s last refuges for jaguars, harpy eagles and pink dolphins. At the current rate of deforestation, more than half of the 1.4 billion acres of rain forest could be gone by 2030 ... Read article

05/03/2013 • Is it possible to reduce the impact of oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest? Oil extraction in the Amazon rainforest has been linked to severe environmental degradation — including deforestation and pollution — which in some areas has spurred violent social conflict. Yet a vast extent of the Colombian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, Bolivian, and Brazilian Amazon is currently under concession for oil and gas exploration and production — hundreds of billions of dollars are ... Read article

04/26/2013 • Amazon.com fights Peru, Brazil for .amazon domain KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com National governments are battling private companies for top-level domains like .amazon now that the field of names is set to expand. Read article

04/25/2013 • The Amazon Rainforest Wants Its TLD Back From Amazon.com terrancem writes "The Seattle-based Amazon.com has applied for its brand to be a generic top-level domain name (.amazon), but South American governments argue this would prevent the use of this internet address for environmental protection, the promotion of indigenous rights and other public interest uses. Along with dozens of other disputed claims to names including ".patagonia" and ".shangrila ... Read article

04/23/2013 • Experiment aims to steep rainforest in carbon dioxide Sensor-studded plots in the Amazon forest will measure the fertilizing effect of the gas. Read article

05/03/2013 • Oil boom threatens Amazon tribesmen         Read article

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