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Jan 31
Indigenous Leaders Arrive in Houston, Call for Suspension of...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
The new blocks mean that approximately 70 percent of the Peruvian
Amazon, one of the largest areas of tropical rainforest
anywhere in the world...
Jan 30
Healthy Brazilian rainforest fruit tops list of new products...
Napa Valley Register - Napa, CA, USA
...of Caffe Classico Foods, the East Bay firm that has latched onto
the unique Amazon rainforest fruit as the main ingredient in its new
line of sorbets.
Jan 29
Global ethanol trade: Effing the little guy
Grist Magazine - Seattle, WA, USA
High tariffs on ethanol could even have the perverse consequence of
Increasing pressure on the Amazon rainforest. In Brazil, the
Amazon is being cleared not...
Upcoming and ongoing events occuring on January 30th 2007
East Bay Express - Berkeley,CA,USA
These birds follow swarms of ants in the Amazon rainforest and try
to steal their prey, forming a biological relationship appropriately known
as "piratism."
Fish man to swim the Amazon
Fish Update - Edinburgh, UK
My intention is to swim through the rainforest to prove something.
'In 1963, Dr Martin Luther King had a dream that changed our world. I
too have a dream.
Jan 28
Brazil nuts' path to preservation
BBC News - UK
Help is at hand for the Amazon rainforest and Brazil's
poverty-stricken rural people - courtesy of the country's famous native
nut.
New map shows human impact on Amazon region
Xinhua - Beijing,China
25 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian Census Bureauon Thursday published a new map
showing where and how humans are encroaching on the Amazon
rainforest.
Singapore Zoo undergoing change into a Rainforest Zoo
Channel News Asia - Singapore
The zoo has also been re-zoned into eight different rainforests of the
world, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Australasia, China and the
Amazon.
Corporate Social Responsibility The Way Forward For Corporations
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
...Ben and Jerry's decided to create a new product
(Rainforest crunch Ice Cream) that would contain nut products from
the Amazon rainforest.
Jan 27
REPORT: THE TRUTH ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
Free Market News Network - Pompano Beach,FL,USA
The Amazon rainforest, mostly located in Brazil, is responsible for
approximately(makes) twenty percent of the oxygen that you breath (trees
and green...
Jan 26
New maps reveal causes of Amazon deforestation
Mongabay.com - USA
Brazil's National Statistics Office (IBGE) released a set of maps
showing how farmers are converting the Amazon rainforest into cattle
pasture and soybean ...
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Jan 25
Drink to Your Health: ONE Natural Experience Introduces ONE ...
The Beverage Network - USA
Los Angeles and San Francisco — at the Winter Fancy Food Show, O.N.E.™ (One Natural Experience) World Enterprises
announced the launch of O.N.E.™ Amazon Acai ...
Amazon rainforest holds key to survival of planet Earth
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA
Proponents justify the rainforest's destruction to make room for
cattle pastures. It's the leading cause for the Amazon's
deforestation.
Jan 24
Lensman heads for the rainforest
Chichester Today - Bath, England, UK
He and his wife, Mary, have been hired to provide the professional
expertise on a five-week cruise to the heart of the River Amazon.
...
Jan 23
BRAZIL - Air traffic controllers partly to blame for crash in Amazon
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston, Jamaica
All those aboard Gol Flight 1907 were killed when it plunged into the
Amazon rainforest, while the executive jet landed safely with all
seven people aboard ...
Slovene swimmer wants to conquer the Amazon
International Herald Tribune - France
"I could die in that river, but that's not my intention. My
intention is to swim through the rainforest in order to prove
something."
Peru's Amazon Art Institute: Nurturing emerging artists at the ...
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru
The Amazon Basin Institute for Indigenous Arts (the Institute) is a
project of the Escuela de Bellas Artes Victory Morey and the Fulbright
Commission of ...
Jan 22
Investigator: Brazilian air traffic controllers partly to blame ...
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego, CA, USA
All those aboard Gol airlines flight 1907 were killed when it plunged into
the Amazon rainforest, while the executive jet landed safely with
all seven ...
World Bank Close To Approving Amazon Beef, Other Projects
CattleNetwork.com - Stanley,KS,USA
All of Brazil's Amazon meat packers outline the east and southern
border of the rainforest. The IFC visited Bertin's facilities
there and found that the ...
He pulled his punches
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The Amazon rainforest could dry up and burn, amplifying the warming
still further. (No mention of runaway warming though).
Natrol Adds Acai Antioxidant To Its Nutritional Product Line
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Acai is a dark purple berry -- similar to a red grape in shape, size, and
properties -- that grows in the wild Amazon rainforest.
Plan to protect the rainforest has global implications
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
What happens to the Amazon rainforest in South America will affect
the planet and all its inhabitants. Widespread secret logging there should
be stopped and ...
Jan 21
Rainforest logging is becoming more sustainable
Earth & Sky - Austin, TX, USA
Earth & Sky's Jorge Salazar spoke to Collins about where we are now
in our effors to save the tropical rainforest. Salazar: The public
has been aware of the ...
Jan 20
Martin's vision: The Amazon Swim. From Atalaya, Peru to Belem, Brazil
Living in Peru - Lima, Peru
The Amazon rainforest, and its river, is also home to some of the
most poisonous, dangerous and ferocious animals that we know of.
Five Best: Jungle Retreats
Independent - London, England, UK
... the setting for this Amazon eco-lodge. Located in a
pristine track of rainforest between the Cuyobeno Reserve and the
vast Yasuni National Park...
Jan 19
Local doctor helps establish Peru art institute
Augusta Eagle-Scribe - Augusta,IL,USA
Most are former oil workers who brought in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian oil
fields in the rainforest, but many are former missionaries who spend
most of ...
Solipsize It
Wall Street Journal (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
The latest iteration of the long-running fascination with what used to be
called primitive people are some folks in the Amazon rainforest of
Brazil who ...
2100: A world of wild weather
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
The index allows anyone to compare the severity of the predicted effect of
climate change on a chunk of the Amazon rainforest, for example,
with its effect ...
Amazon guide tells Wales of climate change
News Wales - Knighton,UK
... Ecuadorial Amazon is in Wales this week to help students
and teachers to understand the importance of protecting the tropical
rainforest and its people.
Jan 18
Artificial meat would be a preferable alternative to the cruelty ...
Newstarget.com - Taichung,Taiwan
In the case of the Amazon rainforest, it means there's less land
available to support natural rain forest habitat, which is, of course,
important for the ...
Jan 17
Methane threats to bake humanity like Turkeys in an Oven
Canadian National Newspaper - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
If the Amazon rainforest burns and releases billions of tons of CO2
into the atmosphere in a short period then this will be a further boost to
global ...
It's going to get a lot hotter by 2100
Metro - London,UK
The map, based on an index drawn up by scientists, allows anyone to
compare, for example, the severity of climate change on a chunk of the
Amazon rainforest ...
Jan 16
Rainforest Alliance Announces Milestone of Certifying to FSC More ...
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC,Canada
... we certified 3.7 million acres (1.5 million hectares) of
rainforest in the central Amazon that is owned and managed by
a group of Kayapo indigenous ...
Jan 14
Share Zoo's wild adventures
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
31 session, presented by Dick Mills of World Discovery Safaris, will
feature trips to Tanzania departing March 4 and the Amazon
Rainforest of Peru departing ...
Mummies in Amazon rainforest shown in Peru
Xinhua - Beijing,China
11, showing around 12 mummies found in the Amazon rainforest region
of Chachapoyas, northern Peru, dating back from 900 to 1500, from the
Chachapoyas and ...
Jan 12
Alligator spotting brings travellers to the Amazon
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
Alligators and caimans are protected species in the Amazon region,
the world's largest rainforest which is a source of legend,
mystery and adventure for ...
Large Amazon Forest Reserves Crucial for Species Survival
Environment News Service - USA
The Amazon rainforest holds one fifth of the planet's plant and
animal species, more than 200 indigenous cultures, and 30 million people in
search of ...
Juan way ticket to learn
Hemelhempstead Today - UK
... and has such an impact on people when he talks. His visit is a
great opportunity for people who cannot visit the amazon rainforestAmazon
Rainforest
as he brings it to life.
Jan 11
A lot of hot air?
Guardian Unlimited - UK
"The biomass of the entire Amazon rainforest is equivalent to
the next 10 years of global emissions," says Malhi. New arguments have
recently emerged to...
'As our awareness grows we'll be more willing to change'
ic Wales - Cardiff,UK
Since 1970, more than 600000 sq kilometres of Amazon rainforest - an
area larger than France - has been destroyed. Conservation International
has said...
EU Plans Steep Emissions Cuts to Avert Climate Disaster
Environment News Service - USA
A number of studies suggest that the Amazon rainforest could be
vulnerable to climate change. One model finds that the Amazon
rainforest could be...
Israeli research: Tiny Saharan valley ensures survival of Amazon
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA
More than half of the dust needed to fertilize the entire Amazon
rainforest is blown thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean from a
small valley in the...
Jan 10
Moment 600 years ago that terror came to Mummies of the Amazon
This is London - London,England,UK
The vault - which was also used for worship - was chanced upon three months
ago by a farmer working at the edge of northern Peru's
rainforest.
Amazon rainforest relies on African dust
SciDev.net - UK
According to the study, the soil of the Amazon rainforest is
shallow, poor in nutrients and almost without soluble minerals. The health
and productivity of...
Jan 9
A clear message from the South: WE WANT FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, NOT BIOFUELS
Melbourne Indymedia - Melbourne,Australia
... of the destruction of the rainforest in Argentina, of the
Amazon rainforest in Brazil and Bolivia and of the Mata Atlântica
in Brazil and Paraguay.
Jan 8
Puerto Maldonado — past, present and, future?
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru
The biological effects on these areas are serious: deforestation, although
luckily not on the same scale as is happening in the Amazon
rainforest of Brazil,...
Jan 7
A wild encounter
Hindu - Chennai,India
The photographs were taken during a field study in tropical
rainforest ecology by Varun Swamy, a student pursuing his doctorate
from the Nicholas School of...
Back to nature
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
But I couldn't have told you anything about the Amazon
rainforest. I had no clue that my woods were connected ecologically to
other woods.
These computer games are endangered species
Blogger News Network - USA
... one involving an effort to save the legendary Mapinguari by
saving the Amazon Rainforest, its critically endangered habitat —
gained generous reviews.
Jan 5
Amazon forest relies on dust from one Saharan valley
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
The trees and plants in the Amazon rainforest rely on nutrient-rich
dust from a single valley in the Sahara desert for sustenance, researchers
have...
[Feature] Korea does not hear sound of global warming alarm
South Korea
The Amazon Rainforest is turning into a desert. Half of the ice
shelf once covering Greenland has melted. Environmental refugees from the
beflooded lands of...
Jan 4
Dust From One African Valley Feeds Brazilian Rainforest
Environment News Service - USA
The data revealed that some 56 percent of the dust reaching the Brazilian
Amazon rainforest comes from the Bodala Valley in northern Chad.
...
Jan 3
Saharan dust sustains Amazon forest
Hindu - Chennai,India
... ground and blow it toward the ocean, allowing the valley to
export the vast amount of dust that makes a life-sustaining contribution to
the Amazon rainforest.
Jan 2
Amazon rainforest linked to African valley
Scenta.co.uk - London,England,UK
... It has been known for over a decade that the existence of the
Amazon rainforest depends on a supply of minerals washed off by rain
from the soil in the Sahara...
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