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Oct 31
Study: Some forest roads bad for wildlife
Science Daily (press release) - USA
...Roads May Lead To Peril For rainforest (January 22, 2001)
-- Brazil may call its plan to carve roads through the fragile Amazon
rainforest "Advance Brazil...
Indians are key to rainforest conservation efforts says renowned...
Mongabay.com - USA
...his family and is now our lead cartographer in the northeast
Amazon. He has personally been in charge of mapping 20 million acres
of rainforest and training...
'Sahara Desert Dust Fertilises The Amazon'
Life Style Extra - UK
Dust from the Sahara Desert fertilises the Amazon - increasing the
abundance of life ...is a reason why the great South American
tropical rainforest teems with...
Oct 30
'One World Magazine' breathes fresh air
Chicago Flame Online (subscription) - Chicago,IL, USA
...including a very personal account of a student's travels in
India, and an informative discussion of the current state of Amazon
rainforest destruction in South...
Brazil's Lula wins re-election
SABC News - Auckland Park,South Africa
...About 125 million Brazilians cast ballots across the world's
fourth-largest democracy, from hamlets in the Amazon rainforest to
the concrete jungle and slums...
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Desert dust feeds tropical rainforest
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA, USA
The Amazon rainforest in South America relies on dust transported by
winds from the Sahara desert in North Africa to replenish the nutrients and
minerals in...
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Oct 28
Amazon Indian conflicts flare before Brazil vote
Reuters AlertNet - London,England, UK
...But some of Brazil's poorest -- including thousands of
Indians, many on reservations in the Amazon rainforest -- have seen
life get tougher under Lula, tribal...
Oct 27
Amazon Deforestation Slows
Environment News Service - USA
... Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has made Amazon
rainforest protection a priority. Deforestation of the
Amazon rainforest is slowing.
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Duo will dig deep to help rainforest
This Is Lancashire - Blackburn, England, UK
... co.uk The Amazon rainforest has been called the lungs of
the planet' and produces 20 per cent of the world's oxygen as well
as half the world's natural ...
Oct 26
Brazil claims soy and beef not responsible for Amazon ...
Mongabay.com - USA
Brazil rejected claims that soybean farms and cattle pasture were
destroying the Amazon rainforest, according to a report from
Reuters.
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Brazil's Lula says Amazon clearing slows
Reuters AlertNet - London,England, UK
... Lula da Silva on Thursday said new data shows a dramatic
slowdown in the destruction of the Amazon. Deforestation of the
world's largest rainforest dropped by ...
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Oct 25
WWF: Humans Far Outstripping Planet's Resource-Replacement Rate
FOX News - USA
Fires burn in the Amazon rainforest near Sao Felix do Xingu in
northern Brazil in an August 2002 file photo. Fires burn in the ...
Oct 24
Amazon river flowed into the Pacific millions of years ago
Mongabay.com - USA
... At this time the Amazon rainforest was born. During the
Ice Age, sea levels dropped and the great Amazon lake rapidly
drained and ...
The Current Issue
Seed Magazine - New York,NY,USA
... Angered by Britain's proposal to buy and sell the trees of
the Amazon rainforest, Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva
has asked former US Vice ...
The 5th 50 mile "Race For The Rainforest" to Benefit Katrina ...
USPRwire (press release) - UK
... 20% of the world's oxygen is produced in the Amazon
Rainforest. * Two-thirds of Earth's fresh water is in the
Amazon River basin.
Global warming could cause catastrophic die-off of Amazon ...
Mongabay.com - USA
... While these are hopeful signs, there is an immense threat
looming on the horizon: climate change could well cause most of the
Amazon rainforest to disappear by ...
Amazon Watch Reported: Achuar Win Landmark Agreement to Stop Toxic ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... a historic triumph over the oil industry after blockading
Peru's largest oil facility to protest the toxic contamination of their
Amazon rainforest homelands.
Oct 23
Pet trade and habitat loss decimating wild macaw populations
Mongabay.com - USA
... Brightsmith, who recently traveled to the Amazon
rainforest of eastern Peru where he runs a long-term macaw research
project, said that beauty is in some ways ...
Carbon market might help rainforests - World Bank
Reuters AlertNet - London,England, UK
... Preserving the Amazon, the world's largest remaining
tropical rainforest, will be on the agenda at a round of global
climate talks next month in Nairobi.
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Largest seizure of illegally logged Amazon rainforest timber ...
Mongabay.com - USA
IBAMA, Brazil's environmental agency, announced the largest seizure
ever of illegally logged timber from the Amazon rainforest.
...
Oct 22
Brazil to call for global fund to save rainforests
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... They added that "well-intentioned" outsiders were
"ignorant of the reality of the Amazon rainforest" and should
stick to trying to influence their own ...
Oct 21
Brazil To Call For Global Fund To Save Rainforests
Free Internet Press - New York,NY,USA
... They added that "well-intentioned" outsiders were
"ignorant of the reality of the Amazon rainforest" and
should stick to trying to influence their own ...
Oct 20
CVRD's exports hit by tribal invasion
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... out of supplies at a sea port in Sao Luis, in Maranhao state,
from where it exported the iron ore mined in Carajas in Para state in the
Amazon rainforest region ...
Oct 19
Quenching the thirst for commodities
Money Management - Australia
... This additional increase did not come from introducing
agriculture to new land (even though Brazil is cutting down the Amazon
rainforest at an alarming rate).
Oct 18
Rainforest award for Vandana Shiva
IndiaPost.com - Union City,CA,USA
... Roddick is currently on the Board of Directors of the Amazon
Rainforest Foundation, a group dedicated to raising awareness of
activities that are destroying ...
Persistent disturbing death rate in Amazon continues despite ...
Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias - Caracas,Venezuela
... in the Amazons and former urban guerilla member- talks about the
lush rainforest of his ... indigenous in Aweitheri -one of
the 19 tribes in the Amazon- was 15 ...
Brazil says no to rainforest privitazation plan, asks Gore for ...
Mongabay.com - USA
On Tuesday Brazil rejected a alleged British proposal to fight climate
change by "privatizing" parts of the Amazon rainforest,
according to Reuters.
Oct 17
Brazil tells foreigners stay out of Amazon
Reuters - USA
... "Such proposals are ignorant of the realities of the
Amazon rainforest," the ministers wrote. "Well-meaning
individuals concerned ...
Oct 16
Rainforests face myriad of threats says leading Amazon scholar
Mongabay.com - USA
... a number of practical hurdles that need to be overcome before
rainforest-carbon trading ... you think of the British
proposal to turn parts of the Amazon into an ...
One grew up in the streets, one had to survive in the jungle
The Sweet Science - USA
... shame. He was born destitute in the Ecuadorian Amazon
rainforest and ran away from his abusive parents at the age of seven.
Brazil proposes compensation plan for rainforest conservation
Mongabay.com - USA
... allows carbon credit for planting trees where forests have
already been cleared but offer no incentives for preventing cutting in
areas like the Amazon.
Oct 15
Victims' Families Criticize Secrecy of Brazil Air Crash Inquiry
New York Times - United States
An official of the Brazilian Air Force scattered roses and letters on
Friday over the site of the Sept. 29 plane crash in the Amazon
rainforest.
Oct 13
Gaps exist in Amazon communications
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Brasilia, the nation's capital, and heading northwest over
the Amazon basin toward ... The crash occurred over a remote
rainforest near the Chachimbo mountains, an ...
Bush Free Trade Plan Puts Amazon up for Grabs
BushGreenwatch - Washington, DC, USA
The Bush administration is quietly pressing for a free trade agreement with
Peru that will put the Amazon rainforest — often described as one
of the earth ...
Oct 12
Victims' Families Criticize Secrecy of Brazil Air Crash Inquiry
New York Times - United States
... the business jet, an Embraer Legacy just picked up from its
Brazilian manufacturer, clipped the wing of the Boeing in midflight over
the Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon Rainforest
Teen Ink - USA
The depths of the Amazon rainforest sound like a magical
place and I dreamed of exploring its canopies and every inch below, but
after spending four days there ...
Indigenous Peruvians shut down Amazon oil facility
libcom.org - London, UK
... down Pluspetrol's Amazon oil facilities in protest at
water contamination. Seven hundred Peruvians have occupied oil facilities
in the rainforest territories ...
Oct 11
Oct 10
Female applicants accuse Peruvian police school of administering ...
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru
(LIP-wb) -- Two young women who applied for admission to a superior school
of Peru's National Police in Iquitos, located in Peru's
Amazon rainforest, say they ...
Photo of new bird species discovered in Colombia
Mongabay.com - USA
... Photos of newly discovered species in Brazil's Amazon
rainforest. Brazil has announced the creation of a Amapa State
Forest, a 5.7 ...
Oct 9
Ecology Meets Theology with Brazilian Theologian Lina Boff
College of St. Catherine - Minnesota,USA
... a globalized world that has urgent social, environmental, and
economic issues to address such as poverty, the destruction of the
Amazon rainforest, and global ...
American lawyers conduct parallel investigation into Brazilian air ...
International Herald Tribune - France
... A Gol airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed in the Amazon
rainforest after a midair collision with a Brazilian-made Embraer
Legacy 600 executive jet, owned by ...
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Oct 8
John Clayton: He made money, now he's making movies
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
... Nowhere, he claims, are the ramifications more terrifying than
in regions like the Amazon rainforest, which is where he had
the epiphany that lead him to make ...
Sambazon Launches First Organic Acai Juice into Stores Nationwide
NPIcenter - Mississauga,Ontario,Canada
... The purple acai berry grows wild in the Amazon
Rainforest and is considered to be one of the healthiest foods on
the planet for its unique synergy of powerful ...
Brazil steps up search for air crash victims
Reuters AlertNet - London,England, UK
RIO DE JANEIRO - The Brazilian government on
Sunday sent an extra 80 troops to join a search in the Amazon
rainforest for victims of ...
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Oct 7
Costa Rica: adventures in a rainforest eco-lodge
Independent - London,England, UK
... With more species of plant and wildlife than anywhere outside
the Amazon rainforest, the park is a huge draw for
professional and amateur naturalists, but ...
US pilots deny wrongdoing led to Brazilian plane crash
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... reported. Recovery efforts continue in the area of dense
Amazon rainforest in the state of Mato Grosso where the crash
happened.
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Oct 6
Ancient Hair Remedies Unveiled By Amazon Beauty, Cocoon Hair ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... For hundreds of years, deep in the heart of the Amazon
Rainforest, women from the Quechua-Shuar tribes have been collecting
Rahua nuts from the jungle floor ...
Brazil controllers confirm jets clipped before crash
Reuters AlertNet - London,England, UK
... executive jet piloted by two US citizens was at the wrong
altitude when it crossed paths with a passenger plane that crashed in the
Amazon rainforest last week ...
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Oct 5
Plane crash at 37,000ft: a survivor's story
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
... With the window shade drawn, I was relaxing in my leather seat
aboard a £13m corporate jet flying 37,000ft above the vast Amazon
rainforest.
US pilots in Brazilian mid-air collision have passports seized
Times Online - UK
... collided with a Boeing 737 at 11,200m (37,000ft) on Friday,
allegedly sending the larger plane spiralling to the floor of the
Amazon rainforest, resulting in ...
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Oct 3
How I survived mid-air crash
Times Online - UK
FLYING at 37,000 feet through clear blue skies, enjoying the luxury of a
new corporate jet above the endless green of Brazil's Amazon
rainforest should have ...
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Joe Sharkey on "The Most Harrowing 30 Minutes of My Life"
World Hum - Manhattan Beach,CA,USA
... shade drawn, I was relaxing in my leather seat aboard a $25
million corporate jet that was flying 37,000 feet above the vast
Amazon rainforest," he writes ...
Population Pressures and the Amazon
OneWorld.net - London,England, UK
... In Brazil, the Amazon rainforest is in its second
year of severe drought, aggravated by the fact that close to half of the
original forest has been cut or ...
Oct 1
Plane found in Amazon
Calgary Sun - Canada
... jungle reached the wreckage yesterday of a Brazilian jetliner
that apparently clipped a smaller plane and crashed deep in the Amazon
rainforest, likely killing ...
Amazon crash site recovery due to begin
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Authorities said they hoped to begin removing bodies from the Amazon
rainforest where Gol Flight 1907 crashed in what is likely to be
Brazil's worst air ...
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Survivors 'unlikely' in Brazil jet crash
Ottawa Citizen (subscription) - Ontario, Canada
BRASILIA, Brazil — The air force helicopter pilots who spotted what was
left of a jetliner that crashed in the dense Amazon rainforest
found no way to land ...
NO HOPE FOR 155 IN JET CRASH
Glasgow Sunday Mail - UK
The Boeing 737 had 155 people on board and is believed to have collided
with another plane before going down in the Amazon rainforest.
...
Miliband promotes plan to buy rainforests
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Ministers are proposing an extraordinary scheme to tackle climate change
in which the Amazon rainforest would be turned into an international
trust and its ...
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