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Apr 30
Vodka Goes Acai
Luxist - Santa Monica, CA, USA
It grows atop trees in the Amazon rainforest and is very popular in
Brazil. Now it gets it first vodka flavor following its fellow it fruit,
...
Journeyman Pictures
Journeyman Weekly - Surrey, UK
... which is cutting straight through the Amazon. As one
driver states; you will be able to get everything out so the
rainforest will be totally destroyed.
Vodka Goes Acai
Luxist - Santa Monica, CA, USA
It grows atop trees in the Amazon rainforest and is very popular in
Brazil. Now it gets it first vodka flavor following its fellow it fruit,
...
Apr 29
Dutch plan restricts biofuels that damage environment
Mongabay.com - USA
... concern for the establishment of energy crops in biodiverse and
carbon-rich ecosystems like the peatlands of Indonesia and the Amazon
rainforest.
See amazing flora in the Amazon
Penticton Western - Abbotsford, Canada
Ariau Amazon Towers is completely built at the level of the
rainforest canopy with over three miles of catwalks affording
visitors an intimate communion ...
Amazon: Journey to Exotica
Yacht Vacations & Charters Magazine (press release) - Fort Lauderdale,FL, USA
Ecuador is one of the best countries to see the Amazon. Yuchana
Lodge, nestled on the banks of the Napo River, near the tiny
rainforest community of Mondana ...
Apr 28
Brazilian mining giant to build coal-fired power stations
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China
... the first plant, with a capacity to produce 600 megawatts, will
be built in the municipality of Barcarena in Para state in the Amazon
rainforest region.
Apr 27
Ecuador: pay us not to develop oil reserves in the Amazon
Mongabay.com - USA
... offer to forsake development of a giant oil field in the
Amazon rainforest in exchange for compensation, reports the
Environmental News Service (ENS).
Largest rainforest in the world could shrink by 40% before the ...
Granma International - La Habana, Cuba
CUBAN experts who participated in the "The Amazon to the Caribbean
by Canoe" expedition, in recounting that experience, believe that one of
the problems ...
Illegal roads speeding destruction of Amazon
Taipei Times - Taipei, Taiwan
Illegal roads, or viscinais -- often built by illegal loggers looking to
cash in on the world's largest rainforest -- represent one of
the biggest ...
Ecuadorian troops win more power to end protests
Reuters - USA
... to break up demonstrations which can shut down output from oil
facilities in the Amazon rainforest, leftist President Rafael Correa
said on Friday.
Dutch will demand rainforest-friendly palm oil
Mongabay.com - USA
... pros and cons of large-scale energy crop production, especially
in ecologically-sensitive areas like the Amazon and Indonesian
rainforests.
Apr 26
move to biofuels threatens rainforest
MSNBC - USA
Rainforest destruction is a major contributory factor in global
warming and it would be ludicrous to promote this loss to slake our thirst
for fuel," said ...
Polar opposites succeed in paddling same canoe
Vancouver Province (subscription) - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
What they agreed to was a moratorium on buying soybeans from newly-cleared
Amazon rainforest. So, can we look forward to buying sustainable
Greenpeace ...
Brazil splits environmental agency to fast-track development projects
Mongabay.com - USA
The move is expected to speed development projects in the Amazon
rainforest. "Ibama will take care exclusively of supervision,
licensing and authorization ...
New Allies on The Amazon
CSRwire.com (press release) - USA
The eight were in the rainforest together on a mission to see
firsthand where farmers were cutting down virgin forest to grow soy beans
for...
Apr 25
Greenpeace, McDonald's join to save rain forest
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR, USA
An unlikely team of Greenpeace activists and McDonald's executives took a
boat up Brazil's Amazon River to see the destruction of rain
forest partly driven ...
New Acai-Blueberry Vodka Promises Refreshing Summer Sip
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
BUSINESS WIRE--From the Amazon rainforest to a liquor store near
you comes Acai-Blueberry Vodka, the latest star in the Van Gogh Vodka
lineup of super ...
Apr 24
Ecuador Seeks Compensation to Leave Amazon Oil Undisturbed
Environment News Service - USA
... of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Energy Minister Alberto Acosta
says. The area of lush, primary rainforest shelters a unique
diversity of animals and plants.
RFID used in Amazon research project
TUV Product Service - Fareham,Hampshire, UK
Remote tracking of wildlife in the Amazon rainforest has been
enabled by the use of passive radio frequency identification (RFID)
technology...
Take a Survey, Plant a Tree
CNW Telbec (Communiqu=E9s de presse) - Canada
This initiative, launched by Hotspex earlier this month, is in partnership
with the Rainforest Conservation Fund (RCF), and aims to plant a
tree for every ...
McDonald's, Greenpeace Unite To Prevent Rainforest Clearing
Washington Post - Washington, DC, USA
With help from multinational companies such as Cargill, some Brazilian
farmers began cutting down trees in the interior of the Amazon
rainforest to grow soy ...
Apr 23
Biodiesel may worsen global warming relative to petroleum diesel
Mongabay.com - USA
Soybeans may worsen drought in the Amazon rainforest. The rapid
expansion of soybean cultivation in the Amazon may be having a
larger impact on climate than ...
Survivor is made in China
yourTV.com.au - Australia
Other non-island settings have included the Australian bush, Kenya and the
Amazon rainforest. The 14th season of Survivor, set in Fiji and shot
during the ...
Earthpark Could Be Grounded
KCCI.com - Des Moines, IA, USA
It would feature 160000 square feet of Amazon rainforest and a
575000-gallon aquarium. Developers hope to open by 2010, but they need
money to get the ...
Reaching the Tops of the World's Tallest Trees
NPR - USA
[The] redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass —
that's the sheer weight of living material — of say, deep tropical
rainforest in the Amazon ...
Apr 22
Screening the Amazon Basin for Peptides
separationsNOW.com (subscription) - Chichester,West Sussex, UK
... by some accounts one-fourth of ingredients for pharmaceuticals
come from the Amazon - and the Amazon Basin and its
rainforest have been a prime target.
Journey deep into the Amazon jungle
Summit Daily News - Frisco, CO, USA
The rainforest exists on a very thin layer of topsoil and trees can
come down easily in strong winds. The native people do not enter the jungle
on days like ...
Apr 21
Free Internet for Amazon Conservation
WorldChanging - USA
The Amazon rainforest -- one of the oldest darlings of environmental
activists -- has a new prescription for protection that couldn't have
been possible in ...
Roads speed destruction of rainforest
Hindu - Chennai,India
This is the Trans-Iriri highway, a clandestine yet very real road that cuts
hundreds of miles through an area of the Brazilian Amazon called the
Terra do ...
Apr 20
Brazil's president promises to listen to Indian demands, makes ...
International Herald Tribune - France
The areas are in the Amazon rainforest where most Brazilian
Indians live as well as in southern and northeastern Brazil.
Apr 19
WWF Announces 2007 Fuller Fellowship Awards
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria
WASHINGTON, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- World Wildlife Fund today
named a native Peruvian who specializes on the Amazon rainforest and
a marine ...
Global pursuits: Peruvian scientist exchanges conservation ideas ...
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT, USA
... and winds up in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, where
they travel by dugout canoes into some of the most remote places left on
Earth, Greene said.
Apr 18
Soybeans may worsen drought in the Amazon rainforest
Mongabay.com - USA
Scientists say the Amazon rainforest plays a critical role in global
climate and houses more than a quarter of the world's terrestrial plant
and animal ...
The route to hunger
Axis of Logic - Boston,MA, USA
claims and assurances that the rate of depletion of the Amazon
rainforestis slowing. The inescapable fact is that the lifestyles of
the better off in the ...
Brian Kelly named US News Editor
New York Observer - New York, NY, USA
... 2007), which is a sequel to Amazon (1985), a look at the
economic and cultural forces behind the clearing of the Amazon
rainforest.
Brazil Indians protest Lula plans for dams, roads
Reuters AlertNet - London, England, UK
Indians fear the projects will bring more loggers, wildcat miners,
pollution and disease to the Amazon rainforest. Many tribes are
already struggling to ...
Apr 17
Brazil's ethanol revolution
Euronews.net - Lyon, France
They also claim that the Amazon rainforest is under threat from
increasingly lucrative sugar cane plantations. Brazil and the United States
combined produce ...
Chopping down deforestation
College of New Jersey Signal - Ewing, NJ, USA
Bates recounted her experience in the Amazonian basin and made
recommendations for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest.
...
Apr 16
Logging decimates African rainforest
CNN International - USA
With other rainforest regions such as the Amazon also being
depleted rapidly -- the percentage of the earth's land surface covered
by rainforest is ...
Apr 15
Guyana visit to learn about forestry sector
Stabroek News - Georgetown, Guyana
In 2006 Eliasch purchased 400000 acres in the heart of the Amazon
Rainforest from a logging company in Brazil. The plot is located just
north of the Madeira ...
European loggers plundering Congo rainforest for teak
East African - Nairobi,Kenya
... which stretches from the borders with Rwanda and Uganda in the
East to Gabon and Cameroon in the West is the world's largest
rainforest after the Amazon ...
Correa Heads For Resounding Referendum Win
Javno.hr - Zagreb, Croatia
=46rom the gloomy Andes mountains to the tropical Amazon rainforest,
Ecuadoreans on Sunday voted in a referendum expected to boost.
Apr 14
The long road to ruin for the Amazon forest
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The 1100-mile road is the main north-south artery of the Amazon
rainforest. It is also the most controversial road in Brazil, built in
the 1970s to open up ...
Apr 12
Greenpeace exposes that logging in the Congo rainforest is out of ...
Surfbirds News - USA
The Congo rainforest is the world's second largest tropical
forest after the Amazon and one of the planet's essential
defences against global climate change ...
The Route of the Problem
Grist Magazine - Seattle, WA, USA
Brazil's soy boom, driven also by European demand, has already cut
deeply into the Amazon rainforest
rainforest, probably the world's most
important natural sink for ...
No Big Bang but the ripples will be felt
Times Online - UK
Farmers along the frontier of Brazil=92s Amazon rainforest
rainforest are
already planting more corn and soya to fill the gap, even though they take
up more land than ...
Apr 11
Oil firm accused of causing cancer
Aljazeera.net - Doha, Qatar
According to the lawsuit, more than 34 billion gallons of toxic residues
connected to the oil extraction process were dumped in the
rainforest.
Greenpeace exposes that logging in the Congo rainforest is out of ...
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta, GA, USA
The Congo rainforest is the world=92s second largest tropical forest
after the Amazon and one of the planet=92s essential defences
against global climate change ...
US College Students Get Chance to Meet Brazilian Amazon Up Close
Brazzil Magazine - Los Angeles, USA
... they will work side-by-side with local conservation scientists,
explore the Amazon rainforest
rainforest by boat and participate in local
cultural activities.
Apr 10
Peru adopts new economic model for Amazonian timber industry
Journal Peru - Lima,Peru
(JP-wb) â A future economic model handling the logging industry in
Peruâ s Amazon rainforest
rainforest will unite exporting companies and native
communities with new ...
Man swims entire length of Amazon river
Mongabay.com - USA
Strel aimed to raise awareness on the state of rivers and the Amazon
rainforest. "I also want to promote a message of clean rivers,
clean water and ...
Apr 9
Cheating Piranhas in 3000-mile Amazon Swim
Buzzle - Costa Mesa,CA, USA
... a day after he reached the coastal city, its towers a sudden
contrast to the rainforest, and became the first person to swim the
Amazon.
Amazon Tribes Police the Rainforest Through World Wide Web
Associated Content - Denver,CO, USA
Brazil's government declared it would provide free internet access to
its native Amazonian tribes to help protect the world's largest
rainforest from ...
Places to see before they die
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Amazon rainforest
rainforest, South America: See the world's largest
rainforest before deforestation and overpopulation further shrink
its size.
Apr 8
Amazon swim takes 66 days
Times Online - UK
Strel hopes his feat will help highlight the importance of preserving the
rainforest. He also wants to raise awareness of Alzheimerâ s and
other degenerative ...
â ¢ The Call for Draconian Cuts
Newsweek - USA
The dying Amazon rainforest
rainforest would begin releasing carbon, making
things even hotter. The permafrost would melt, releasing carbon and causing
sea levels to ...
Apr 7
Environmentalists warn natural wonders at risk from global warming
Canoe.ca - Canada
... temperature of the Amazon River could rise by as much as
three degrees C within 50 years, turning up to 60 per cent of the
rainforest into dry savanna.
SAVE THE AMAZON RE-FORESTATION PROJECT
PR Buzz (press release) - Naples, FL, USA
With plantations in the Amazon Rainforest, where their raw materials
are grown, Just Like Sugar, Inc. has spearheaded the â Save the
Amazon Re-Forestation ...
Apr 6
Environmentalists warn natural wonders at risk from global warming
Canoe.ca - Canada
...temperature of the AmazonRiver could rise by as much as
three degrees C within 50 years, turning up to 60 per cent of the
rainforestinto dry savanna.
SAVE THE AMAZON RE-FORESTATION PROJECT
PR Buzz () - Naples,FL, USA
With plantations in the Amazon Rainforest, where their raw materials
are grown, Just Like Sugar, Inc. has spearheaded the â Save the
AmazonRe-Forestation...
Apr 5
Natural wonders feel the heat
999 Today - UK
South America's Amazon rainforest, the Chihuahua Desert in
Mexico and the glaciers in the Himalayas are also under threat from climate
change...
Apr 4
Air chaos is new blow to Brazil's image
BBC News - UK
Those problems began in October last year, when a collision involving a
US-owned private jet and a Gol Boeing 737 over the Amazon rainforest
killed all 154...
Apr 3
Colors of Peru: Discovering AmazonWildlife & the Worldâ s Largest...
TravelVideo.tv () - USA
In addition to unmatched Macaw bird-watching and the wonders of the
Amazon rainforest, Wild Planet Adventureâ s Peru tours also allow
guests to hop aboard a...
The Quest of a lifetime
Easier - Chester, UK
...to conserve forest in the stunning lake district area of Chile,
entertain kids with sports and activities in Peru and conserve the
Amazon rainforest.
The Chaos in Brazil's Blue Skies
TIME - USA
...after a US-owned private jet clipped the underside of a Boeing
737 and sent it spiraling to the ground in the Amazon rainforest,
killing 154 people.
Apr 2
Internet access in the Amazon
VivirLatino - New York, NY, USA
Both government and Amazonlocals think that the web is an effective
way to combat illegal activity affecting the rainforest...
Green savior or red herring
CNN International - USA
In Brazil, meanwhile, huge swathes of Amazon rainforest are being
lost to sugarcane plantations, again for the provision of raw materials to
the biofuel...
Apr 1
CEO, Rock & Roll Legend & Canadian Broadcaster Join Together to...
PRLog.Org () - Bucuresti,Romania
With plantations in the Amazon Rainforest, Just Like Sugar, Inc. has
spearheaded the "Save the AmazonRe-Forestation Project" in an
effort to combat the...
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