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Mar 30
Brazilian Government Shutters Cargill Soy Plant, Port
Environment News Service - USA
BELEM, Brazil, March 29, 2007 (ENS) - Brazil's Environmental Agency
IBAMA has closed a large soy processing and shipping facility in the
Amazon rainforest ...
Brazil rainforest internet plan
BBC News - UK
A move to provide free internet access to native Indian tribes to help
protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal logging has been
announced in Brazil.
Mar 29
Rainforest education site recognized with community award
Mongabay.com - USA
The $500 cash prize was donated to the Amazon Conservation Team, a
group doing pioneering work in protecting the Amazon rainforest.
...
Brazil Shuts Down Amazon Soy Port
Farm Futures - Carol Stream,IL, USA
Opponents of soy expansion in and around the Amazon rainforest say
that Cargill's $20 million Amazon port, opened three years ago,
is banking on the ...
Southern Explorations Adds Four New Peru tours
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA, USA
... sights such as the world's highest navigable lake, Titicaca,
the Amazon rainforest, the Inca Trail, the Sacred Valley and the
colonial city of Cusco.
Mar 28
Greens hail landmark victory in fight to save Amazon rainforests
Independent - London,England, UK
An estimated 20 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has already been
destroyed, and about 6500 square miles more was lost between 2005 and 2006.
...
Global Warming Predicted to Create Novel Climates
Environment News Service - USA
The Amazon rainforest, already imperiled by logging and land
clearing for agriculture and ranching, would be completely changed if
global warming continues.
Will climate change kill the Amazon?
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA, USA
An early wake-up call on the potential die-back of the Amazon
rainforest due to a drying climate emerged from the Met Office Hadley
Centre climate model ...
Cargill's controversial soya shipping facility in the Amazon is ...
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA, USA
A huge soya
processing and shipping facility in the heart of the Amazon
rainforest, which environmental ...
Mar 27
Cargill's controversial soya port closed in the Amazon
Greenpeace International - Amsterdam,Netherlands
Santarem, Brazil -- In the heart of the Amazon rainforest a huge
soya port owned by the giant US company Cargill has just been closed down
by the Brazilian ...
Brazil ethanol output won't hurt rainforest: expert
Checkbiotech.org (press release) - Basel, Switzerland
"There's no need to cut a single tree in the Amazon
rainforest either to grow food or produce ethanol," Roberto
Rodrigues, Brazilian coordinator of the ...
Ag giant's Amazon plans go terminal
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA, USA
The terminal spurred a major leap in soy production -- millions of acres of
rainforest were turned over to soy bean fields -- which is used
principally to ...
Mar 26
Amazon tribesman sue Texaco
Aljazeera.net - Doha,Qatar
A landmark trial is unfolding in Ecuadorian Amazon, where a group of
rainforest residents is suing Texaco for $6bn in oil clean-up costs.
...
Climate change will increase extinction risk, especially in the ...
Mongabay.com - USA
They cite the Amazon rainforest as being vulnerable to climate
change due to "particular risk for increased fire frequency and loss
of forest cover." ...
Smithsonian-led Amazon Research Team wins scientific prize
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington, DC, USA
"Rainforest trees can live for centuries, even millennia, so
none of us expected things to change so fast," Laurance said.
"But in just two decades--a wink ...
Amazon Herbs That Can Help Save Lives Posted By : tangopang
Business Portal 24 (press release) - Bad Lausick, Sachseri,Germany
The Amazon rainforest is situated in South America and is also known
to be the largest of its kind covering over seven million square kilometers
in size.
Environmentalists and loggers like new Amazon logging law
Mongabay.com - USA
... Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) reports the Brazilian
government plans to allow large-scale monitored harvesting of the Amazon
rainforest.
Cargill busted in the Amazon rainforest
Mongabay.com - USA
... the Amazon is recent years due to high commodity prices
and the development of a new variety of soybean developed that flourishes
in rainforest climate.
Mar 25
Brazil shuts down Cargill grain port on Amazon River
Kansas City Star - MO, USA
"This is an important day for the Amazon rainforest and for its
people," Paulo Adario, Greenpeace Amazon Campaign Coordinator
in Brazil, said in a statement ...
Mar 24
Brazil shuts down Cargill port on Amazon River, demands ...
International Herald Tribune - France
Soy farming has overtaken cattle ranching and logging as the worst
destroyer of the rainforest. The Amazon lost 6950 square
miles (18000 sq. kilometers) of ...
Brazil tries to regulate Amazon rainforest use
Technocrat.net - Boston,MA, USA
Wanting to both exploit and preserve the rainforest as much as
possible, they will be catlouging all the available public areas that will
be opened for ...
Mar 23
Ecuador's President Correa to help indigenous communities in ...
Mineweb - Johannesburg,South Africa
The Ecuador Government is to provide support for indigenous communities in
their litigation against Chevron over pollution of the nation's
rainforest in the ...
Amazon 'faces more deadly droughts'
BBC News - UK
They were the images of the widespread drought in 2005 in the Amazon
- an area of lush rainforest in most people's imagination.
...
Life in the Rainforests
Scholastic News - New York,NY,USA
A book about a child of the Amazon. We read Amazon Boy by Ted
Lewin (Macmillan, 1993). The boy in the story lives in the Amazon
rainforest and realizes how ...
Mar 22
Rainforest Protection: New fund to conserve Congo Basin
Belfast Telegraph - Belfast, UK
Britain is to give £50m towards helping to save the second-largest
rainforest in the world, the Congo Basin in central Africa.
...
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Defending the Amazon
Latin America Press - Lima,Peru
According to Brazilian government figures 17 percent of the Amazon
Rainforest has been deforested. More worrying is the acceleration of
this process (LP...
Mar 21
Menendez: Support is building for closer US-Latin America ties
Bridgewater Courier News - Bridgewater, NJ, USA
A surge in narcotics trafficking and destruction of the Amazon
Rainforest are signs the United States must help Latin Americans
improve their economies...
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Speaking for the trees
Channels Online (subscription) - Santa Barbara, CA, USA
This is a serious issue considering the fact that over one-third of all
plant and animal life make their home in the Amazon basin. As the
Rainforest Action ...
Lead character may die in the final Potter, but trees won't ...
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Harry likes to fight his battles alone but Scholastic, his US publishers,
have teamed up with the Rainforest Alliance to make Harry Potter and
the Deathly ...
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Mar 20
Saving the Planet Is the World's Duty. Not Brazil's Alone
Brazzil.com - Los Angeles, CA, USA
The tone of the article is about what is left of the rainforest,
calling the readers' attention to the devastation of the Amazon
forest.
Mar 19
A rainforest in danger
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The tropical forests of Africa's Congo basin are some of the last
remaining large areas of primeval forested lands in the world, second only
to the Amazon ...
Mar 17
Award-Winning Peacock Bass Fishing in the Amazon; Catch the ...
PR.com (press release) - Levittown, NY, USA
The Amazon is the world's largest tropical rainforest,
spanning more than half of the Brazilian territory. Within the 4 million
square km (2.5 million ...
Opera House The Next Stop On Diego's Adventure Map
The Patriot Ledger - Quincy, MA, USA
When prompted, the audience kids peer through their masks and count aloud
in Spanish as they join Diego on a rescue journey through the Amazon
rainforest.
Mar 15
Chevron Faces More Scrutiny in Ecuador over Pollution
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
The suit also claims Chevron left roughly 1000 open air toxic waste pits in
Ecuador's ecologically sensitive Amazon rainforest.
Amazon rainforest fires date back thousands of years
Mongabay.com - USA
Analyzing soils in the eastern Amazon, a team of scientists led by
David S. Hammond of NWFS Consulting, has found evidence of forest fires
dating back ...
Mar 14
Amazon rainforest on fire
Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias - Caracas,Venezuela
Local governments in the state capital, which serves as the entrance to the
Amazon rainforest sound the alarm. But for lack of communication,
...
Shiver Me Timbers
Plenty Magazine - New York City, NY, USA
But we think they'd look a lot better in their original spot: the
Amazon rainforest. Some lawmakers feel the same way. Yesterday, a
bipartisan group ...
Mar 13
Can new loan really bring sustainable cattle ranching to the Amazon?
Mongabay.com - USA
Environmentalists say the deal will drive further deforestation in the
biologically rich Amazon rainforest. Cattle ranching is responsible
for more than ...
Amazon rainforest does have rainy and dry seasons
Mongabay.com - USA
A new study using NASA satellite images found evidence of seasonality in
the Amazon rainforest. The results, published in the March 20 issue
of the ...
Turn, Turn: The Amazon Gets Seasons
Science Now - Washington, DC, USA
But because of the vast extent of the Amazon rainforest
basin--it's roughly the size of the continental United
States--scientists have only been able to ...
Eco-To-Go
PSFK - Surrey, UK
Eco Agents, a nonprofit organization created to defend and protect the
Amazon Rainforest has coined a new term to do just that; Eco-To-Go.
...
Mar 12
Research team seeks organist
United Press International - USA
A team of British scientists preparing for an
expedition into the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia is seeking a church
organist to ...
Mar 10
Myths and legends guarded by Peru's Amazon Rainforest
Journal Peru - Lima,Peru
This is one of the s pirits that protects the rainforest, and more
specifically it is said to be the spirit of people that took their last
breath inside the ...
Amazon diary: Your questions answered
BBC News - UK
Q: Have you seen a lot of devastation of the rainforest? A: We
haven't seen much devastation yet. I have been in Brazil since 22
February, when we reached ...
Mar 9
On the Town: March 9-11
News 14 Charlotte - Charlotte, NC, USA
Up first, just in time for spring, the North Carolina Dance Theater is
celebrating all the wonders of nature, from the exotic Amazon
rainforest to the ...
Mar 8
How to preserve Peru's Amazon rainforest. Interview with Rhett Butler
Journal Peru - Lima, Peru
Many of those living on the coast or in the mountains of Peru
forget that 50% of Peru's landmass is covered by the Amazon
rainforest.
Can Ecology and Commerce Coexist?
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA, USA
Valuable things like the Amazon rainforest itself, which is crucial
to everyone on the planet as a source of ecological balance and potential
new medicines.
CAN ECOLOGY AND COMMERCE COEXIST?
Free Market News Network - Pompano Beach,FL, USA
Our small boat bobs along the unimaginably wide Amazon River, then
heads up a fast-flowing tributary the colour of tea with cream, and finally
turns onto a ...
Mar 7
Pre-Colombian Amazon rainforest not heavily populated
Mongabay.com - USA
Much of the Amazon rainforest was not heavily populated by
pre-Colombian indigenous cultures argues a new paper published in the
journal Philosophical ...
Shopping trips not what they used to be
Meadville Tribune - Meadville, PA, USA
For those of you without kids, the Rainforest Cafe is a restaurant
that tries to re-create the Amazon rain forest experience — that
is, if the Amazon...
Earth's resources are in danger
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton, NY, USA
The Amazon rainforest, for instance, is being scavenged and
destroyed. In the past 40 years alone, it has been reduced by 25 percent,
and scientists predict ...
Proposed US-Brazil ethanol alliance threatens Amazon rainforest
Mongabay.com - USA
... countries for their contributions to global warming and told
them to stay out of Brazil's business when it comes to the fate of the
Amazon rainforest.
Chicago Botanic Garden Explores Flora Of Amazon Rainforest
HULIQ - Hickory, NC, USA
Journey into the Amazon rainforest through the eyes of the late
British botanical artist-explorer Margaret Mee in an exhibition from the
Royal Botanic ...
Ethical certification — Sustainability with a rich aroma
Ethical Corporation Magazine - London, UK
Its proceeds will fund conservation work on the cerrado, a shrub-forest
habitat the Rainforest Alliance says is as endangered as the
Amazon.
Mar 6
Harvard report documents mining abuses in Guyana
Caribbean PressReleases.com (press release) - Christ Church,Barbados
The report also notes that mining has led to an increase in deforestation
in Guyana, destroying valuable rainforest important to the local
communities...
Amazon Queen update: "Life's misfortunes... fates caprices's ...
Mounteverest - New York, NY, USA
... for the satisfaction of being able to accomplish this from a
wooden ship navigating the rainforest tributaries of the
Amazon River," he told ExWeb.
Ocean salinity is bigger problem than rising water
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL, USA
Also, the Amazon rainforest is at least partially flooded for months
at a time, so it would survive for a while. The higher salinity of the
flood is what ...
Mar 5
UN Official Discusses Brazil Biofuel
Washington Post - Washington,DC, USA
... cultivation is minimal now in the Amazon, some
environmentalists fear that growing demands for the fuel could push cane
growers into the rainforest.
Farming in the rainforest can preserve biodiversity, ecological ...
Mongabay.com - USA
Saving the Amazon Rainforest Through Agricultural Certification.
John Cain Carter is a Texan rancher who owns 20000 acres (8100 hectares) in
the Brazilian ...
Does the ethical food movement really have the answer?
Cambridge Varsity Online - Varsity,Cambridge, UK
You can imagine where the Amazon rainforest will end up thanks to
organic farming: in our living rooms, as cheap furniture.
Pollution in Asia causes stronger thunderstorms, may worsen global ...
Mongabay.com - USA
Smoke from forest fires reduces rainfall and spells trouble for the
Amazon rainforest. Recent studies by NASA scientists have found that
heavy smoke from ...
Mar 2
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
Don't forget Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch ice cream.
One could take a class trip to the Amazon, book a rain forest
vacation eco-tour, go to a rain forest ...
Connecting the Dots
CounterPunch - Petrolia, CA, USA
... they should stop telling Brazil what to do with the Amazon
rainforest, highlighting the double standard northern governments apply
to their own forests.
Mar 1
PowerSupplements LLC Finds Not All Acai Supplements are the same ...
PR Leap (press release) - Chula Vista, CA, USA
In addition, we all have a responsibility to the planet to protect the
Amazon Rainforest
rainforest. We are extremely proud that Perfect Acai meets
both these goals.
Indigenous populations deforested New World rainforests before ...
Mongabay.com - USA
Some scientists have even argued that the present-day Amazon
rainforest reflects thousands of years of human management and use.
...
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Change your eating habits and help the planet
Common Ground.ca - Canada
In the Amazon, 88 percent of the cleared rainforest is, or
was, used for grazing for a short time. Unfortunately, the situation
becomes sadder as the land ...
Brazilian Wane
Plenty Magazine - New York City,NY, USA
The country's Pantanal wetlands and Amazon rainforest
rainforest will be
especially vulnerable to the droughts, disease, and extreme weather
conditions that warming ...
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