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Aug 31
Brazil says destruction of Amazon rainforest dropped by nearly a ...
The Canadian Press - BRASILIA, Brazil
BRASILIA, Brazil -- Destruction of the Amazon rainforest
dropped by nearly a third during the last year, reaching the lowest rate
since Brazil's space ...
Bruce proves we're all sisters and brothers under the skin
Buckinhamshire Free Press - High Wycombe, England, UK
In last Tuesday's episode we saw hard-as-they-come Bruce travel to the
Amazon rainforest to spend time with the Matis people. They were
almost wiped out in ...
Eldorado or bust: Thousands of hopefuls have flocked to the Amazon ...
Independent - London, England, UK
By Susan Schulman Buried deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, in
the state of Amazonas, is what has been dubbed Eldorado do Juma, the site
of Brazil's ...
Aug 30
Climate change news in brief - 29 August 2007
ClimateChangeCorp.com - London, UK
... Chevron operated, and the company is accused of intentionally
dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic waste in the Amazon rainforest
between 1964 and 1992.
Summer vacation in the Amazon
Boston Globe - United States
... Amazon, he helped farmers reforest the land and conducted
field research alongside conservation scientists focused on protecting the
rainforest habitat ...
$350m to leave oil in the ground
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The government and oil companies are already eyeing another chunk of
Amazonian rainforest, the Yasuni national park, a Unesco-designated
biosphere reserve.
Aug 29
An Amazon escape
Sunshine Coast Daily - Queensland, Australia
... up with representatives of the environmental group Amazon
Watch along the way to capture footage of devastated tracts of
rainforest felled by industry.
Channel 4's Dumped: Making rubbish TV
Guardian Unlimited - UK
They all thought they were going to end up somewhere exotic like the
Amazon Rainforest. We could have spelled out the idea from the off,
but to me the whole ...
Jailing of scientists raises fears of repression in Brazil
Independent - London, England, UK
... timber extraction and soya industries led to his arrest and
conviction because of his high-profile actions in seeking to protect the
Amazon rainforest.
Aug 28
Slavery continues in Brazil's Amazon coal bunkers
Indian Muslims - San Diego, CA, USA
27 (Xinhua) -- About 12 percent of all charcoal bunkers in Brazil's
Amazon rainforest region still uses slave workforce, said a human
rights monitoring ...
Peru: Illegal Coca Farmers Begin Lumber Business in Amazon Rainforest
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru
(LIP-ir) -- In the Ucayali Region of Peru, an inland region located in the
Amazon rainforest, 1500 farmers from the Sinchi Roca Community have
left their ...
Bushmeat hunters no threat to Amazon wildlife
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
A study in Manu National Park, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest
in Peru, has found "little or no evidence" that any of the most
hunted species are in ...
Chevron Using Unethical Tactics to Avoid Judgment In $10 Billion ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
Chevron is accused of intentionally dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic
waste into the Amazon rainforest during the 28 years (1964 to 1992)
it operated an ...
Aug 27
Scientists demand Brazil cease Amazon colonization project
Mongabay.com - USA
Longest-running Amazon rainforest experiment imperiled by
colonization. One of the world's most important and longest-running
scientific experiments is ...
Aug 26
True friendship is stronger than language barrier
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando, FL, USA
Two days later, we flew into a village where John once lived, which was in
the Amazon Rainforest. I saw a few Indian women by the river washing
dishes and ...
Mother Nature's shop vac
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba, Canada
Those spindly looking jack pines may appear, at first glance, to be
unimpressive compared to the massive trees in the Amazon rainforest,
yet the boreal is ...
Aug 25
Pretty Peru
Martinsburg Journal - Martinsburg, WV, USA
The highlight of my trip was going to the Amazon rainforest. I
booked my stay with a group named Explorama. My friend and I had our very
own guide who ...
Aug 24
Adventurers take on the Amazon in 6500km trek
Daily Mercury - Mackay,Queensland, Australia
... to have successfully paddled the entire length on the
Amazon River. There are a lot of ways you can meet your end in the
world s largest rainforest.
The (somewhat unpalatable) truth about your bank holiday steak
Daily Mail - UK
They also dismiss the deforestation claims ("cattle farming in the
Amazon rainforest area has a negligible impact on the environment
because it occurs on a ...
Aspiring To Leadership: Brazil, President Lula and Sugar-Cane Ethanol
Council On Hemispheric Affairs - Washington, DC, USA
Already, upwards of 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been
destroyed, highlighting Brazil's absolute necessity to address the
enormous risks embedded ...
Aug 23
Biofuels driving destruction of Brazilian cerrado
Mongabay.com - USA
The cerrado is now disappearing more than twice as the rate as the
neighboring Amazon rainforest, according to a Brazilian expert on
the savanna ecosystem.
All Pact and Ready to Go
Grist Magazine - Seattle, WA, USA
The Brazilian government is looking into accusations that sketchy
sustainable-development deals may have led to increased logging in the
Amazon rainforest.
Brazilian government to investigate land reform scandal
Greenpeace UK - London, UK
Our expos=E9 earlier this week about how a Brazilian government agency is
handing out areas of the Amazon rainforest to logging companies
under the guise of a ...
Brazil Says Amazon Deforestation Down
Forbes - NY, USA
AP 08.10.07, 6:29 PM ET Destruction of the Amazon rainforest dropped
by nearly a third during the last year, reaching the lowest rate since
Brazil's space ...
Aug 22
SmartWood misled US local authority over FSC timber
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC, Canada
Many local people - supported by the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club
- are opposed to the use of rainforest timber, and have been asking
the City ...
The weekend on television: The Truth About Boy Bands (ITV1)/The ...
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By James Walton Even the remote peoples of the Amazon rainforest
have, it seems, heard of TV trickery. In last night's Tribe (BBC2), Bruce
Parry had to ...
Aug 21
Rainforest still major cash crop
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
Trees cut from virgin Amazon rainforest lie at a
sawmill in Mato Grosso state. The Brazilian Government
stands accused of ...
Amazon forest carved up in resettlement scam
Greenpeace UK - London, UK
Incra is using the Amazon rainforest as an escape valve for the
problem of land distribution, but this just creates more problems. Those
who genuinely need ...
Land reform agency sanctions logging in Amazon rainforest park
Mongabay.com - USA
Under the guise of a sustainable development scheme, a Brazilian land
agency has granted large tracts of Amazon rainforest to colonists
who quickly resold ...
Aug 20
NASA MODIS Image of the Day: August 19, 2007 - Fires and ...
Space Ref (press release) - USA
Like the forests of eastern North America in previous centuries, the
Amazon Rainforest of South America is rapidly falling as people
colonize and develop a ...
Aug 19
Unchartered territory
ic Wales - United Kingdom
His first trip takes him to the Matis people in the Amazon
rainforest, a tribe whose first contact with Westerners came as
recently as the 1970s.
Visiting Amazon Lodges and Plentiful Wildlife
About - News & Issues - New York, NY, USA
The article describes wildlife and staying at the Ceiba Tops jungle lodge,
about 40km down river from Iquitos in the Amazon Rainforest Region
of Peru.
Aug 18
Unchartered territory
ic Wales - United Kingdom
His first trip takes him to the Matis people in the Amazon
rainforest, a tribe whose first contact with Westerners came as
recently as the 1970s.
Visiting Amazon Lodges and Plentiful Wildlife
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA
The article describes wildlife and staying at the Ceiba Tops jungle lodge,
about 40km down river from Iquitos in the Amazon Rainforest Region
of Peru.
Aug 16
Brazil Amazon destruction slows
BBC Bulgaria - Bulgaria
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has welcomed new figures
showing that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest has decreased
by 25%.
A Conversation on Conservation: Contemplating the Impact of ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs - Washington,DC,USA
A recent article in the New York Times highlighted Brazil's new approach
toward conservation of portions of the Amazon rainforest located
within its ...
Amazon rainforest clearing rate falls
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
RIO DE JANEIRO: Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is slowing,
with new figures showing clearfelling in the vast tract of wilderness
dropped by 25per ...
Aug 15
The Amazon Herb Company: An Independent review
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
This is a company that harvests a wide assortment of rainforest
herbs from indigenous tribes in the Amazon, then makes them
available in various ...
Aug 14
The Frontline of the Battle against Climate Change: Listening to ...
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... week Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva welcomed new
figures suggesting that the rate of destruction of the Amazon
rainforest was slowing.
Rainforest research from treetops allows for some higher education ...
NewsOK.com (subscription) - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
For instance, Madidi National Park in Bolivia, or the upper Amazon
River in Peru, or the dry Cerrado region of Brazil. "A lot of times,
we'll have people ...
Brazil says Amazon deforestation down
Herald News Daily - Williston,ND,USA
BRASILIA, Brazil - Destruction of the Amazon rainforest dropped by
nearly a third during the last year, reaching the lowest rate since
Brazil's space ...
Deforestation slows in the Amazon
ABC Online - Australia
The Amazon rainforest has a surface area of around 5.5 million
square kilometres, which is more than half the size of Australia.
...
Brazilian telenovela deubts in Mazambique
Screen Africa - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
This activist called world attention to the destruction of the Amazon
Rainforest, which had been going on since the 70s. Chico Mendes created
a peaceful ...
Aug 13
Good news for the Amazon, and the climate
Greenpeace UK - London,UK
The moratorium on Amazon soya followed our campaign that exposed how
soya farming had become a new threat to the rainforest. The
continuing reduction in ...
Brazilian ministers claim victory in war on illegal loggers
Guardian Unlimited - UK
It is estimated that around 20% of the Amazon rainforest has already
been destroyed. Ms da Silva attributed the figures to the government's
...
Summer Vacations with an Edge: Backpacking in the Amazon
Jaunted - USA
... but Amazon Travel & Tours is more our style. The
group takes backpackers on hikes through untamed trails and floats them
down winding rainforest streams ...
Sugar-fuelled superpower
Economist - UK
Most of the flight is over the tremendous state of Mato Grosso, where the
Amazon rainforest begins. Soon after Brasilia, the lights peter out,
and the plane ...
Aug 12
Herb hero - Guinea hen weed packed with power
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
Anamu is a herb that is indigenous to the Amazon rainforest and the
tropical areas of the Caribbean, Central and South America and Africa.
...
Fishing for piranhas
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
... in a small river boat sputtering up the Amazon to the
Yarapa River, a small tributary to the Amazon where our simple
rainforest accommodations awaited.
Seeing and saving Peru's rain forest firsthand
Boston Globe - United States
Sixto, who was born and raised in the rain forest, works with
Rainforest Expeditions, which operates three lodges along the
Tambopata.
Aug 11
Amazon forest destruction is down over the past year
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
BRASILIA, Brazil -- Destruction of the Amazon rainforest dropped by
nearly a third during the past year, reaching the lowest rate since
Brazil's space ...
Scientist's arrest stirs concern over Amazon research
Houston Chronicle - United States
By MICHAEL ASTOR AP Destruction of the Amazon rainforest dropped by
nearly a third during the last year, reaching the lowest rate since
Brazil's space ...
Global warming could reduce rainforest tree growth by 50 percent
Malaysia Sun - Malaysia
So far, the Amazon rainforest - the world's biggest - has not
suffered significant climate warming. But with even the most optimistic
predictions of climate ...
Lowland rainforest less diverse than previously thought
Mongabay.com - USA
... of the world's species, much of the world's remaining
rainforests consists of lowland forests in New Guinea, Borneo and the Congo
and Amazon Basins.
Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record
Mongabay.com - USA
"When we put all this together we come up with a very bleak outlook
for the Amazon rainforest. I don't have the final numbers,
we're running these right now ...
Aug 10
Rising temperatures "will stunt rainforest growth"
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
So far, the Amazon rainforest — the world's biggest — has
not suffered significant climate warming. But with even the most optimistic
predictions of climate ...
Land-use policies protect Peru rainforest
Science Daily (press release) - USA
full story Selective Logging Causes Widespread Destruction Of Brazil's
Amazon Rainforest, Study Finds (October 24, 2005) -- Selective
logging -- the ...
Brazil: Amazon Deforestation Rate Drops
Forbes - NY,USA
AP 08.10.07, 6:31 PM ET Destruction of the Amazon rainforest dropped
by nearly a third during the last year, reaching the lowest rate since
Brazil's space ...
How to hatch plans for your great escape
Times Online - UK
Mark Bridge asks the experts how best to stay solvent Himalayan peaks, the
Amazon rainforest, white sandy beaches. Do you sometimes daydream of
escape from ...
Good news for birds, rainforest
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Conservation efforts in Peru are reducing damage to the Amazon
rainforest. And black-footed ferrets are making a comeback in Wyoming.
...
Aug 9
Experts: parks effectively protect rainforest in Peru
Mongabay.com - USA
High-resolution satellite monitoring of the Amazon rainforest in
Peru shows that land-use and conservation policies have had a measurable
impact on ...
Conservation Works: Falcons, Ferrets and Forests Benefit from ...
Scientific American - USA
... particularly rainforest land with its high ratio of
endemic animal species, will therefore be required. And satellite pictures
of the Peruvian Amazon ...
Rainforest Biodiversity Shows Differing Patterns
Science Daily (press release) - USA
A large proportion of the world's remaining rainforests are lowland
forests in New Guinea, Borneo and the Congo and Amazon Basins.
...
Analysis: Chavez warns of biofuel disaster
United Press International - USA
... Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took umbrage with recent remarks that
increasing the country's ethanol production would further harm the
Amazon rainforest.
Aug 8
Dodging the Tipping Points?
It's Getting Hot In Here - Washington,DC,USA
Let's take a look at a few: Die-back of Amazonia: the Amazon
rainforest produces its own rainfall through the evapo-transpiration of
the forest.
Dr. Marc Van Roosmalen, discover of unknown monkey species, freed ...
Mongabay.com - USA
Dr. Marc van Roosmalen, a renowned primatologist who has discovered seven
species of monkeys in the Amazon rainforest, has been freed in
Brazil.
Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest ...
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC,Canada
A large proportion of the world s remaining rainforests are lowland
forests in New Guinea, Borneo and the Congo and Amazon Basins.
...
Aug 7
Brazil to investigate robbery of plane crash victims' belongings
Earthtimes.org - USA
... alleged theft of documents, jewellery and other objects
belonging to people who died in a plane crash in the Amazon
rainforest in late September 2006.
Aug 3
Minister Willie goes back to help in Amazon
Glasgow Evening Times - Glasgow, Scotland, UK
by Catriona Stewart Intense poverty and guerilla warfare were rife against
the backdrop of the awe-inspiring Amazon rainforest.
Lemon ants on the menu
Canada.com - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
We're slogging through the Amazon rainforest on the banks of
Ecuador's Napo River. Benancio, our jungle guide, points out trees,
roots and plants with
Travel Brazil ? A Glimpse Of Beautiful South America
Arabia.com - USA
Brazil is, of course, is also home to over 60% of the Amazon rainforest. The Rainforest itself has some 5.5 million
kilometres in total size within 8
How to organise a honeymoon in Brazil
Times Online - UK
to drop the Amazon. It's a five-hour flight up to
Manaus (gateway to the rainforest), whereas the Iguassu falls are
just 90 minutes away from Sao Paulo.
Aug 2
Climate action now! Socialist Climate Change Charter.
Socialist Alliance (press release) - Chippendale, NSW, Australia
In the earlier stages, an additional 2 billion people would be at risk of
insufficient water, 95% of coral reefs would be lost, the Amazon rainforest and
Uncontacted Peruvian Indians Flee into Brazil to Escape Loggers
Brazzil Magazine - Los Angeles, USA
A large group of uncontacted Indians has appeared in a remote village in
the Amazon rainforest near the Peru-Brazil border, a Brazilian
government official
Favors, fondant and other wedding wastes
YourHub.com - Denver, CO, USA
I think we could probably re-grow the Amazon rainforest with all the
useless wedding-related paper products. Save-the-dates, invites, response
cards...
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