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Nov 30
Former representative convicted of murder in Brazil
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... Public Prosecution Office said Pascoal ordered the murder of
Sebastiao Crispim, a member of the Fire Brigade in Acre state in the
Amazon rainforest region, to ...
Lula's new balancing act
Latin America Press - Lima,Peru
... National patrimony such as country's vast Amazon
rainforest must be preserved, even though deforestation has slowed in
recent years. ...
"Chants of a lifetime" deal for Indians
Reuters - USA
SAO PAULO, Brazil Nov 29 (Reuters Life!) - Xavante Indians living on the
southern edge of Brazil's Amazon rainforest plan to start
selling ringtones of ...
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World news in brief
24 Hours Vancouver - Canada
Xavante Indians living on the south edge of Brazil's Amazon
rainforest plan to start selling ringtones of traditional chants to
cell phone users in China and ...
Nov 29
GreenTracks Announces Spring Break Trip March 17-24
Newswire Today (press release) - London, UK
GreenTracks is offering a different kind of Spring Break Trip...A one week
trip to the Amazon rainforest of Peru for students with an interest
in wildlife ...
Experts Combine Efforts to Improve Elementary Science
CCN Magazine - Folsom,CA, USA
... the Rainforest" students will build model habitats,
vehicles and instruments for explorers and scientists to use in the
Amazon rainforest, first researching ...
Nov 28
Tufts experts combine efforts to improve elementary science ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... to the Rainforest" students will build model
habitats, vehicles and instruments for explorers and scientists to use in
the Amazon rainforest, first researching ...
Lungs of the earth
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
... The destruction of the Amazon might be large enough to
change the climate of the rainforest and of the world. Last year,
the Amazon ...
Canopy research is key to understanding rainforests
Mongabay.com - USA
... chapters 7 and 9 -- sharing the Amazon with my children
and with students. Do you have any advice for students wanting to pursue a
career in rainforest research ...
Portugal to be Brazil's platform in EU, says Portuguese minister
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... power company Furnas planned to establish the hydroelectric
power plant of Peixe Angical in the state of Tocantins, in the south of the
Amazon rainforest region ...
Nov 27
Where in the world has geography gone?
Black & White - MD,USA
Fifteen of your classmates have no idea where New York is. Six of them
think that the Amazon rainforest is in Africa . And two of
...
Fragmentation killing species in the Amazon rainforest
Mongabay.com - USA
Forest fragmentation is rapidly eroding biodiversity in the Amazon
rainforest and could worsen global warming according to research to be
published this week ...
Out of the bag: It's the Bengal Cat that's king of the urban ...
Delhi Newsline - Delhi,India
... accessory is not a Maybach or Gulfstream, but exotic pets: from
trinket snakes (its real name) to miniature monkeys from the Amazon
rainforest (the movie ...
Nov 26
Diet for a hot planet
International Herald Tribune - France
... Department of Agriculture estimates that all of the cropland of
the United States could fit into the South American central plain and
Amazon rainforest to the ...
Tackling diseases that devastate the poor
Seattle Times - United States
Steve Reed's work as a scientist has taken him from rural Eastern
Washington to the Amazon rainforest. He taught medicine at Cornell
...
Indigenous Amazonian people score rare victory against oil company
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... has already signed away an estimated 43 percent of its tropical
rainforest to oil ... needs to be more cautious about how it
issues oil concessions in the Amazon. ...
Nov 25
Explore the Sights, Sounds, and Sensations of the Brazilian Amazon ...
ClickPress (press release) - UK
... The growing popularity of eco-tourism and adventure travel has
made travel to the Amazon rainforest accessible in the last few
years, but until recently, there ...
Human nature ensures they'll mess things up
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
... or two about human nature from his six years hosting Survivor in
settings as far-fl ung as Pulau Tiga in the South China Sea and the
Amazon rainforest in Brazil ...
Tribe's protest forces oil giant to cave in
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... their red and yellow feathered headdresses, arrived last month
by the boatload in the twilight hours at four oil wells in the middle of
the Amazon rainforest. ...
Brothels cry foul as the saw of the jungle falls silent
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... When President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced recently that
deforestation in the Amazon rainforest had fallen to its lowest
level since 1991 even the ...
Nov 24
Biggest Russian food and feed importers adopt GE free policy
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA, USA
... will also ask Sodruzhestvo to support this initiative to ensure
the soya produced in Brazil does not contribute to the deforestation of the
Amazon rainforest. ...
A life well lived: 40 years as a plant explorer in the jungle
Jackson Sun - Jackson,TN,USA
... Her early explorations of the Amazon were purely for
adventure, but when she was ... The results were impressive, and she
began to see the tropical rainforest as a ...
Nov 23
Woods man branches out to jungle home
BBC News - UK
... the rainforest. But instead of giving up his
uncomfortable lifestyle after achieving his goals, Mr Sawyer is planning a
new challenge - to live in the Amazon ...
Dutch Diplomat rescued in Amazon rainforest
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
A Dutch diplomat and his son have been rescued by Brazilian police after
being lost in the Amazon rainforest for three days. Ilko ...
Nov 22
Grocery trends '07
Indianapolis Star - United States
1. Amazonia: Products that feature indigenous resources from the Amazon
rainforest, including exotic fruits such as açaà and cupuaçu,.
...
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Announces Additional ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA, USA
... eight passengers and six crew members died on September 29,
2006, when the Gol Airlines aircraft plunged nose-first into the Amazon
rainforest after colliding ...
Brazil gov't to fund paved Amazon soy export road
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... But environmentalists, fearing that paving the BR-163 will
hasten the destruction of the Amazon rainforest by loggers,
ranchers, soy farmers and squatters ...
Diet for a hot planet
Boston Globe - United States
... The USDA estimates that all of the cropland of the United States
could fit into the South American central plain and Amazon
rainforest to the north. ...
Nov 21
Movies to Watch on Thanksgiving
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA
... Notorious Italian 80s horror film about a documentary crew who
travels to the Amazon rainforest to find primitive tribes, but
instead find themselves on the ...
Brazilian agventure - What I learned from good friends
Boonville Daily News - MO, USA
... the south have to keep 20 percent of their land in natural
habitat and as you go further north towards the equator (and the Amazon
rainforest) this increases ...
Brazil to speed up 120 infrastructure projects
Reuters - USA
... Confusing environmental laws are blamed for stalling dozens of
projects, many of them in the sensitive Amazon rainforest region.
Continued...
Life drains away from towns built on destruction of the Amazon ...
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced recently
that deforestation in the Amazon rainforest had fallen to its lowest
levels since 1991 even the ...
Nov 20
CLIMATE CHANGE: Will Forests Adapt to a Warmer World?
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
... happen," says William Laurance, of the Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute in Balboa, Panama, in reference to climate change and
the Amazon rainforest. ...
Celebrating beauty
Hindu - Chennai,India
... Not surprisingly, this writer often thinks of things like the
Great Barrier Reef, the Himalayas, the Grand Canyon and the Amazon
rainforest when trying to come ...
Mintel identifies key trends for 2007
FoodNavigator-USA - Montpellier,France
... This will see consumers increasingly turning to products that
feature plentiful indigenous resources from the Amazon rainforest.
...
Stop Global Warming With Smog?
Slashdot - USA
... that appears to be occurring all around the globe; record sized
icebergs breaking off from Antarctica and record draughts in the Amazon
rainforest are just a ...
Nov 19
Candice Millard does a beautiful job of exploring Theodore ...
The Wichita Eagle - Wichita, KS, USA
... men be starving -- they're in the Amazon!' But in
the Amazon, everything is too good at being a predator or not being
prey. In the rainforest, Roosevelt and ...
Intel's founder is donating heavily to protect the jungle -- but ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... asked about the results of the foundation's spending in the
Amazon, however, both ... Asked whether he has succeeded in
helping save the rainforest, he demurred. ...
St. Croix in Lead with 13,000 views on YouTube for Role in "The ...
NewsBlaze - Folsom, CA, USA
... with over 13,000 viewers to his video audition for the new TV
series "The Interior", which is planned for production in early
2007 in the Amazon rainforest. ...
Nov 17
Natural friendly products will hit shopping agenda
ic Wales - United Kingdom
NATURAL, pure and simple will be the buzzwords for what we buy next year,
and a lot of it will come from the Amazon rainforest, industry
analysts predict today ...
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Solution at root
South Delta Leader - Tsawwassen, British Columbia, Canada
... And we've known for years that it's bad to level the
Amazon rainforest because the trees absorb the carbon dioxide that
is choking our planet. Petroperu, Petrobras sign oil exploration deal
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China
... signed six agreements to evaluate the feasibility of drilling
oil and gas in the Maranon Basin, which covers 5.7 million hectares of
Peru's Amazon rainforest. ...
Nov 16
Self-employed carpenter turns family game room into an aviary
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
... dropping $900 on Lucky, a mini macaw, he found an opera-singing
Amazon named Elton ... and pool table but has been turned
into a fuchsia-walled rainforest with a ...
(PRN) - American Equity Investment Life Holding Company Declares ...
Bolsamania.com - Madrid,Madrid,Spain
(PRN) - Amazon Leader to Call on Oil Industry to Stop Destruction of
Rainforest Homelands, Amazon Watch Says ... [+. PRN) - Former
...
'Ethical Products To Sell Well In 2007'
Life Style Extra - UK
... the US with Acai berries, which only grow in the Amazon
and are ... the latest chemical technology, and counterbalance that
with the latest rainforest conditioner ...
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Amazon Leader to Call on Oil Industry to Stop Destruction of ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Racimos de Ungurahui, Peru Atossa Soltani, Executive Director of
Amazon Watch WHEN ... talk about the Achuars' struggle to
protect their rainforest territories from ...
US: Mintel predicts top trends for 2007
just-food.com (subscription) - UK
... Mintel said that "the Amazonia movement", which highlights
products featuring plentiful indigenous resources from the Amazon
rainforest
rainforest, will continue to ...
Perfect Fruits Meet Perfect Nutrition: Anti-Aging Company Creates ...
FinanceVisor.com (press release) - CA,USA
... Newswire) - By unifying the world's two most nutrient
perfect whole-food fruits, Goji from the Himalayan mountains and Acai from
the Amazon rainforest, with a ...
Nov 15
Amazon Indians use Google Earth, GPS to protect forest home
Mongabay.com - USA
... live in mostly traditional ways. However, like the Amazon
rainforest
rainforest itself, this is rapidly changing. As forests fall to loggers
...
Nov 14
Filed under: Toys and gifts, Green living, Child Health ...
The Green Guide - New York,NY,USA
... themes include SimEarth (1990), SimAnt (1991), SimLife (1992),
SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest (1995) and SimSafari (1998; see
www.amazon.com, www.download ...
Slime Molds and the Dynamics of Tropical Ecosystems
University of Arkansas Daily Headlines - Fayetteville,AR,USA
... Park in Bolivia, two of the world's most diverse ecological
rainforest areas, to ... his travel supported by a $4,000
grant from the Amazon Conservation Association ...
Study: Species extinctions are increasing
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Why The Amazon Rainforest
rainforest Is So Rich In Species (December
5, 2005) -- Tropical areas of south and central America such as the
Amazon rainforest are home to ...
Peru: Campaigner Investigates Amazon Tribes
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... uncontacted tribes in Peru. The majority are nomadic
hunter-gatherers, moving across very large areas of the Amazon
rainforest
rainforest.
Green Activists Board Ship in Protest
St Petersburg Times, Russia - St. Petersburg,Russia
... Petersburg. Exported to Europe from the US, Brazil and Argentina
as animal feed, the GM soya is grown on deforested Amazon rainforest
area, Greenpeace says. ...
Nov 11
Peru-Brazil Cooperation Goes Forward
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... More than 60 percent of Peru's territory is formed from the
Amazon rainforest. In fact, the Amazon River's source
commences in the Peruvian Andes. ...
Green Unionism
Infoshop News - USA
... In Brazil , rubber tappers forged an alliance with native
peoples and environmentalists to oppose the massive deforestation of the
Amazon rainforest by big ...
Nov 10
Sambazon Named Winner of The Secretary of State's 2006 Award for ...
NPIcenter (press release) - Mississauga,Ontario,Canada
... These efforts have created sustainable employment for thousands
of small family farmers and help protect biodiversity of the Amazon
Rainforest by making the ...
Nov 9
Green colonials
New Statesman - London,England,UK
An international project to buy large parts of the Amazon rainforest
has run up against stiff resistance from indigenous groups. ...
Acai Berry Could Carry Health Benefits
Click10.com - Miami,FL,USA
... antioxidants it contains. Deep in Brazil's Amazon
rainforest
rainforest grows a berry that's taking the world by storm. It's
called the acai ...
Mother sues pilots, Honeywell for Brazil air crash
Reuters.uk - UK
... Investigators believe the Boeing nosedived into the Amazon
rainforest, killing everyone on board. The Legacy managed to make an
...
A Global Warming
NewsWithViews.com - Merlin,OR,USA
... Once we engage our minds, we must activate solutions to haul our
species out of this maelstrom. I've also spent time in the Amazon
rainforest
rainforest. ...
Nov 8
Paddling past predators on the river of romance
ic Croydon - UK
... water, but we slept soundly anyway. Protecting the Amazon
rainforest
rainforest is a huge environmental concern. In the past three years,
nearly ...
EnvironHealth International Launches Website of Products That ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Imagine a portion of real estate almost the size of the United States and
you get an idea of the Amazon Rainforest
rainforest -- home to over 200,000
Indigenous people ...
Embattled Chevron Executive to Be Put Under Oath Today in $6 ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... outlining his leading role in possibly illegal behavior in
Ecuador's rainforest. ... 18 billion gallons of toxic
waste directly into Ecuador's Amazon region from ...
Stern report says:
The Guardian (Australia) - Australia
... example, it discusses the necessity of avoiding a five degree
rise in global temperature, but even a two degree rise would bring the
Amazon rainforest to the ...
Organic Trade Association applauds Sambazon for State Department ...
UN Observer
... a delicious, nutritious organic product, while benefiting the
economic situation of indigenous people and the vitality of the Amazon
rainforest", said Wilcox ...
Research Highlights
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
... Millions of tonnes of dust from the Sahara blow across the
Atlantic every year and fertilize the Amazon rainforest. Now the
origin ...
Nov 7
Out of Africa
iAfrica.com - Cape Town,South Africa
... A safari through the Amazon jungle takes you not only
into the rainforest, but also along the tributaries of the
Amazon River. While ...
Rainforest adventures
Lynchburg News and Advance - Lynchburg,VA,USA
... has lived in the rainforest for thousands of years and is
one of the last tribes in the Amazon to voluntarily live in
seclusion in the rainforest, Hartley says ...
Timber trade - Logging on proves difficult
Ethical Corporation Magazine - London, UK
... Legislation to preserve the rainforest has come a long
way in Brazil since the 1970s, when 50% of private land in the
Amazon could be legally deforested. ...
Brazilian Plane Crash Sparks Suit in NYC
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... the lawsuit said. After the two planes collided, Gol Airlines
Flight 1907 plunged into the Amazon rainforest. Although the crash
...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE: Remarks at the 2006 Award for Corporate ...
noticias.info (press release) - Spain
... I also accept this award on behalf of all of our small family
farmers in the Amazon rainforest as well as our NGO partners who
have helped us these last six ...
Nov 6
Leaving on a jet plane
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
... Indian families happily head to Alaska to see the Northern
Lights or Cambodia to gaze at Angkor Wat or indeed Brazil to walk in the
Amazon rainforest. ...
Croak Addiction
TIME - USA
... "New Guinea, outside of the Amazon and some areas of
central Africa, has the largest areas of rainforest left," he
says. "Nobody ...
Honeywell, ExcelAire face lawsuit over Brazil crash
MarketWatch - USA
... flight. On Sept. 29, 148 passengers and six crew members died
when the Gol flight crashed in the Amazon rainforest. The plaintiff
...
Three US Firms Win Awards for Work in Latin America
Washington File - Washington,DC,USA
... enterprise winner of the award. The company was recognized for
its sustainable development work in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
...
INTERVIEW- Brazil proposes fund to protect Amazon
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... Critics have said Brazil just wants to get paid for protecting
the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest and home to
maybe a quarter of all species on earth. ...
Nov 5
Fleet Street hot air won't help
The Observer - UK
... You can, like the Bun, wonder 'why we should fork out 30 per
cent more for a flight to Spain when chunks of the Amazon rainforest
the size of Wales are cleared ...
Pilots from Amazon collision stuck in emotional, legal limbo
Seattle Times - United States
... 29 collision, their lawyer said Friday. The accident killed all
154 people on board Gol Airlines Flight 1907 when the jet crashed into the
Amazon rainforest. ...
YEARS TO SAVE THE WORLD
Sunday Mirror - UK
... of food, the loss of the world's most bio-diverse
ecosystems, including most of the coral reefs, and irreversible damage to
the Amazon rainforest which may ...
IoS 2060: Tsunami horror hits Britain
Independent - London,England,UK
... eventually be visited by catastrophes such as widespread
drought, the failure of the monsoon rains, the fiery death of the Amazon
rainforest
rainforest, the extinction of ...
Nov 4
The Rise Of Professional Journalism
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
... All in all, the autonomy of professional journalism is
disappearing in a manner similar to the Amazon rainforest or the
ozone layer. ...
Nov 3
So organic sales soar at Sainsbury's
FoodAndDrinkEurope.com - Montpellier, France
...These will include Brazil nuts picked locally in the Amazon
rainforest , Walnuts grown in Jammu and Kashmir, Figs grown in
Turkey's Izmir region and dates first...
US pilots involved in deadly Brazil air collision stuck in legal...
International Herald Tribune - France
...The accident killed all 154 people on board Gol Airlines Flight
1907 when the Boeing 737 crashed into the Amazon rainforest. Despite
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For Angulo and Briggs, it's all about survival
The Sweet Science - USA
...By the time he was 11, he was living alone in the Ecuadorian
Amazon rainforest. He spent 18 months in the wild, surviving only by
hunting for food.
Melting ice turns up the heat
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
...That is what is so worrying about the British Met Office's
warning that the Amazon rainforest could die by mid-century,
releasing its stored carbon from trees...
Women's Institutes
Hexham Courant - Lake District, UK
...The speaker Mr Raeburn showed slides of a trip to Peru to visit
a friend's daughter who was carrying out conservation work in the
Amazon rainforest.
Nov 2
British firm looks to Amazon rainforest for new drugs
Mongabay.com - USA
...a joint research facility close to start testing compounds from
rainforest plants. Dr. Mark Plotkin, President of the
non-profit Amazon Conservation Team, is...
Black box shows tower error in Brazil crash
Globe and Mail - Canada
...Sept. 29 when the Boeing 737 crashed into Brazil's dense
Amazon rainforest after clipping the Embraer Legacy 600 executive
jet.
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Brazil: Indigenous Group Granted Largest Tropical Forest...
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC,Canada
The rainforest Alliance has granted Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
certification to 3.7 million acres of rainforest in the central
Amazon owned and managed...
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Mother Jones: The thirteenth tipping point
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA, USA
...The Amazon rainforest -- global warming will dry it up
and kill it, leading to massive species loss and the release of accumulated
CO2 equal to humanity's...
Nov 1
In the jungle, the mighty jungle...
Leeds Today - UK
...we encountered any threatening wildlife. Protecting the
Amazon rainforest is a huge environmental concern. In the past three
years...
Brazil's mining giant cancels aid to indigenous communities
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
...17, members of those communities took over the mining
giant's operational units at the Carajas mining complex in the
Amazon rainforest region, halting its...
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