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Dec 30
Death of Amazon rainforest possible, researcher warns
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... between 15 and 20 per cent," Mr Marengo said. "This
setting will transform the Amazon rainforest into a savanna-like
landscape.".
Dec 29
Dust from Chad sustains Amazon rain forest
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... The new estimate matched calculations on the quantity of dust
needed to supply minerals for the continued existence of the Amazon
rainforest.
Cool Discovery
Tracy Press - Tracy, CA, USA
... equator. That's important because of the deforestation taking
place in the Amazon rainforest and other tropical regions, he said.
The ...
Dec 28
Dust to Gust - Brazilian rainforest Depends on African Dust
Newswise, USA
It has been known for more than a decade that the existence of the
Amazon rainforest depends on a supply of minerals washed off by rain
from the soil in the ...
Dec 27
Tatiana Cardeal — Indigenous Photography from the Amazon ...
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru
... In your experience, do the various ethnic groups of the
Amazon appreciate being filmed or photographed, or would they rather
be left alone and continue with ...
Dec 24
'I eventually made it to the source of the Amazon'
Unison.ie (subscription) - Bray,Ireland
... A fifth of the Amazon rainforest has already been
destroyed but, in recent weeks, the Brazilian authorities have put a
protection order on a large area of land ...
Dec 23
Creating Another World in a Time of War, Empire and Devastation
Melbourne Indymedia - Melbourne,Australia
... The new Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa proposed a land and
river trade route linking the Brazilian Amazon rainforest to
Ecuador's Pacific Coast, suggesting ...
Dec 21
Independent Appeal: Campaign to free the slaves of the Amazon
Independent - London,England,UK
... They have all volunteered for a difficult and dangerous job.
Very often it takes days to reach ranches in the remote areas of the
Amazon rainforest.
Dec 20
Are Brazil nuts really sustainable?
Mongabay.com - USA
... These large canopy trees found in the Amazon rainforest
rely on the agouti, a ground-dwelling rodent, for a key part of their life
Dec 16
How Michelin put the bounce back into its rubber farms
The Observer - UK
... Everyone knows about the Amazon rainforest, but the
situation of Brazil's Atlantic rainforest, running sporadically
down the coast from Salvador to Rio, is ...
Dec 15
The Solution to Global Warming Is Us
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA, USA
... for Climate Change Research in the United Kingdom, has
identified 12 global warming tipping points, such as the deforestation of
the Amazon rainforest or the ...
Dec 12
A musical Amazonian trek
Wimbledon Guardian - Wimbledon,London, UK
The intrepid founder of a Balham charity will be venturing deep into the
South American jungle next year to raise money for the Amazon
rainforest.
Acai could help save the rainforest
FoodProductionDaily-USA - Montpellier,France
... The World Wildlife Fund estimates the Amazon rainforest
holds approximately 30 percent of the world's plant species. The
Amazon ...
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Dec 11
Sambazon Honored by US State Department
Natural Products Industry Insider - Phoenix, AZ, USA
... produces a delicious, nutritious organic product, while
benefiting the economic situation of indigenous people and the vitality of
the Amazon rainforest.
Who pays for Amazon rainforest conservation?
Mongabay.com - USA
... hectares represents 45 percent of the region's 815 million
hectares of rainforest and is considered a threshold below which the
Amazon rainforest ecosystem may ...
A better way to cut down the Amazon rainforest?
Mongabay.com - USA
... Overall Brazil has lost some 650,00 square kilometers (250,000
square miles) or 18 percent of the Amazon rainforest since the early
1970s.
Dec 10
Accidental tourist
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
... How to get there: Although supposedly set in the Amazon
rainforest, where there aren't any Mayan pyramids, this was filmed
in Guatemala.
Pomegranate sows seeds of popularity
Boston Globe - United States
... superfood. One candidate: acai, a dark purple berry grown in the
Amazon rainforest that apparently is loaded with antioxidants.
Dec 8
Large Area of Rainforest to be Protected
Gringoes.com - Sao Paulo,Brazil
An area of Amazon rainforest around 130,000km2, larger than
England, in the state of Para will be protected by the government.
...
Brazil announces new protected areas in Amazon Rainforest
EiTB - Euskadi,Spain
... from clear how much the new reserves will do stall Amazon
destruction, since most of the deforestation is taking place along the
rainforest's southern border.
Two US pilots charged over Brazil crash
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Brazilian police have charged two US pilots with endangering air safety in
the crash of a Brazilian airliner over the Amazon rainforest in
which all 154 people ...
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Brazil creates world's largest rainforest reserve
Mongabay.com - USA
... "The new protected areas complete the Brazilian portion of
the Guayana Shield corridor of Amazon rainforest stretching from
neighboring Guyana, Suriname and ...
Plans for Amazon-to-Pacific trade route unveiled by Ecuador's ...
International Herald Tribune - France
... President-elect Rafael Correa unveiled an ambitious and
expensive idea Friday for a land-and-river trade route linking Brazil's
Amazon rainforest to Ecuador's ...
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Dec 7
Rainforest gets protected status
BBC News - UK
... protect the land from the unsustainable logging and agriculture
practices that have blighted many parts of the Amazon. "If any
tropical rainforest on Earth ...
Brazilian farming industry-a defence
FarmersWeekly - UK
"The fact is that even if the Brazilians were not to cut another tree
in the Amazon rainforest, there is the potential for enormous
expansion of their beef ...
Amazon Rainforest in Brazil to be Protected
GameSHOUT - USA
Brazil is going to preserve a large portion of the Amazon
rainforest, about the size of the English continent. Para Governor
Simao ...
Amazon Protection To Be Expanded In Brazil's Para State
Playfuls.com - Targu Mures,Romania
... and Conservation International said the project would complete
the Brazilian portion of the so-called Guayana Shield for the Amazon
rainforest, which also ...
Dec 6
Huge Amazon rainforest put under government protection
Vancouver Sun (subscription) - British Columbia, Canada
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- A swath of Amazon rainforest bigger than
the Maritime provinces combined was placed under government protection
Monday in a region ...
Amazon Watch: Los Angeles-based Oxy Withdraws From Amazon, Sets ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... The development is the second major victory for the
Amazon in the last ... daily dumping of 800,000 barrels of
toxic drilling wastes directly into the rainforest.
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IADB OKs $80 mln loan for Brazil power distribution
Reuters - USA
... Tocantins, aims to provide electricity to new urban and rural
customers in the state sandwiched between the coastal savanna and the
Amazon rainforest, the IADB ...
An Amazonian Capital Rediscovers the Amazon
Architectural Record - USA
Manaus is Brazil's great Amazonian metropolis, a 1.5 million-person
industrial city isolated in the middle of the rainforest, readily
accessible only by ...
Saving the rainforest: At last, action on the Amazon
Independent - London,England, UK
Good news does not often emerge from the Amazon rainforest, a part
of the world that has become synonymous with man's rapacious desire to
turn verdant ...
Dec 5
Huge swathe of Amazon given protection status
Unison.ie (subscription) - Bray,Ireland
A HUGE swathe of the Brazilian rainforest was given protected status
yesterday in ... deforestation that threatens to devastate large
parts of the northern Amazon.
The Case Against Texaco: Interview with Emergildo Criollo, Cofan ...
Upside Down World - Hartwick,NY,USA
... against the North American oil company for contamination in the
Ecuadorian rainforest. 000 indigenous and mestizo
plaintiffs of the Ecuadorian Amazon are up ...
Huge swath of Amazon rainforest to be preserved
Edmonton Journal (subscription) - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A swath of Amazon rainforest the size of
England was placed under government protection Monday in a region infamous
for violent ...
More Protection For Brazilian Rainforest
newswire.co.nz - Havelock Nth,Hawkes Bay,New Zealand
... years. Since 1970, more than 60-million hectares of Amazon
rainforest - an area larger than France - is said to have been
destroyed.
Amazabama! Brazil Preserves A Southern State Full of Rainforest
Rolling Stone - USA
Brazil has cordoned off a swath of untouched Amazon rainforest the
size of Alabama, home to more than half of the basin's plant and animal
species, according ...
Brazil announces massive Amazon rainforest reserve
Green Clippings - South Africa
Brazil has announced the protection of 37 million acres of Amazon
rainforest, creating what will be the largest rainforest reserve
in the world.
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Half the Peruvian Amazon Leased for Petroleum Development
Environment News Service - USA
... warned today that the Peruvian government is signing so many
contracts with multinational oil companies that half the rainforest
of the Peruvian Amazon is now ...
Dec 4
New protected areas boost Amazon conservation
WWF International - Gland,Switzerland
... Though the Amazon rainforest remains the largest expanse
of its kind in the world, scientists have estimated that more than 17 per
cent of the biome in Brazil ...
From Corporation to Conservation
Harbus Online - Cambridge,MA,USA
... For instance, when one thinks of rainforest protection
for the Amazon, one needs to recognize that the Amazon is
being converted for cultivation of soy crops ...
'Chants of a lifetime' deal for Indians
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Sao Paolo - Xavante Indians living on the southern edge of Brazil's
Amazon rainforest plan to start selling ringtones of traditional
chants like "the hunt song ...
Rainforest the size of England to be protected in Brazil
Times Online - UK
... The jungle state of Para is at the heart of then world's
battle to protect the Amazon rainforest. Last year, a 74-year-old
American ...
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Dec 3
Tribal chants may go global as ringtones
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Sao Paulo: Xavante Indians living on the southern edge of Brazil's
Amazon rainforest plan to start selling ringtones of traditional
chants like "the hunt song ...
Dec 2
Spring Break Romp in the Jungle Combines Learning and Fun
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
... A one week trip to the Amazon rainforest of Peru for
students with an interest in wildlife, natural history and adventure. This
...
Dec 1
Fragmentation rapidly erodes Amazonian biodiversity
Biology News Net (press release) - QC,Canada
... The Amazon contains the planetâs most biologically
diverse tree communities, with ... "Rainforest trees can
live for centuries, even millennia," said Laurance ...
Tackling diseases that devastate the poor
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Steve Reed's work as a scientist has taken
him from rural eastern Washington to the Amazon rainforest.
...
Jungle chants now available for your phone
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Sao Paulo - Xavante Indians living on the southern edge of Brazil's
Amazon rainforest plan to start selling ringtones of traditional
chants like "the hunt song ...
Atomic Porker Strikes Indian Point
PEJ News - Victoria,BC,Canada
... They are quite simply wrong. We found that the Amazon
rainforest is more than 90 percent intact. We flew over it and met all
the environmental authorities. ...
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