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02/07/2010 • Smarter farming key to saving Amazon rainforest (AP via Yahoo! News) Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its best defender. Read article

02/07/2010 • Smarter farming key to saving Amazon rainforest (San Francisco Chronicle) Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its best defender. At the government-run experimental farm where he works, he points toward plots... Presented By: Comcast Business Class Look at your bill and find out how much your business can save with Comcast Business Class. Internet ... Read article

02/07/2010 • Smarter farming key to saving Amazon rainforest (MalaysiaNews.net) The aging mayor of this crammed jungle city in the heart of the Amazon once handed out chainsaws to cut down the rainforest. Now he throws around slogans to save it. That legendary shift is part of ... Read article

02/08/2010 • Palm oil deal 'a threat to the rainforest' (Independent) Hundreds of millions of tonnes of palm oil look set to be pumped into Britain's vehicles despite scientific evidence showing that chopping down rainforests to make way for plantations exacerbates climate change, according to a leaked report. Read article

02/02/2010 • Fury as giant Belo Monte Amazon rainforest dam is approved by Brazil (Times Online) Brazil has approved the controversial construction of a giant hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon, defying a 20-year protest by indigenous and environmental campaigners who say that the project will devastate the surrounding rainforest and threaten the survival of local tribes. Read article

02/03/2010 • James Boyce: What's Up With the Rainforest: Huge Hydroelectric Dam Approved in Brazil's Amazon (The Huffington Post) The role of economics is becoming more and more important in the fight for rainforest conservation and protection. Recent frames in the media had centered... Read article

02/02/2010 • Amazon dam to be placed in rainforest (MalaysiaNews.net) An environmental license has been granted for the construction of a controversial hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest. Read article

02/03/2010 • Brazil approves Amazon dam (UPI) BRASILIA, Brazil, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Brazil has approved the construction of an environmentally controversial hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest, government officials say. Read article

02/08/2010 • Wine corks go green (The Telegraph) EDWARDSVILLE — Going green is possible in nearly everything we do and everything we use. Even when drinking a favorite wine or champagne there’s an opportunity to play a part in saving the planet, beyond saving the bottle. Read article

02/08/2010 • Another week of GW News, February 7, 2010 [A Few Things Ill Considered] (ScienceBlogs) Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... Read article

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