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Sep 30
Serious Amazon
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
In the first episode of this rollicking reality series in which the young
volunteers will eventually undertake a river journey into the Peruvian
rainforest,...
Sep 29
Isolated tribe photographed in Amazon jungle
Malaysia Sun - Malaysia
Many indigenous people have shunned contact with the rest of society to
live on the Amazon rainforest land which has been set aside for
petroleum...
Sep 28
Amazon Tougher in Drought than Expected
Technocrat.net - Boston,MA, USA
Satellite analysis has helped to slightly lessen worries about the
Amazon rainforest making it through drought. It appears they have a
better rootsystem and...
Little-Known Indian Tribe Spotted in Peru's Amazon
ABC News - USA
A little-known nomadic Indian tribe has been spotted by ecologists in
Peru's Amazon rainforest, carrying arrows for bows and staying
in huts made of palm...
Rainforest enjoys a dry spell - and confounds scientists
Environmental Data Interactive - UK
Rather than suffering from a lack of water, the drought-stricken Brazilian
Amazon appeared to have flourished during an unusually dry summer.
...
Sep 27
Michelin plantation an oasis in sea of poverty
Globe and Mail - Canada
At the time, and to this day, the rubber trees in the Amazon and
Atlantic rainforests were being hard hit by a plant disease called
microcyclus ulei,...
Ecuador's Yasuni-ITT Proposal Recognized at the Clinton Global...
Earthtimes.org - USA
Wallace Global Fund committed $100000 to the initiative, and joins a
growing network of supporters, including Accion Ecologica, Amazon
Watch,...
Sep 26
The rainforest is the wallpaper at the restaurant at Anavilhanas...
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Not too long ago, options for visitors to the Brazilian Amazon
region were limited: You flew to Manaus, stayed at the Tropical Manaus
Hotel on the outskirts...
Art exhibit brings Amazon to UT
The Daily Beacon - Knoxville, TN, USA
... Dami=E1n Keller and second-year UT faculty member Patricia
Tinajero, was inspired by the "fantastic landscape" of the Amazon
rainforest....
Environmental and labeling issues will hit sales of naturals, says...
CosmeticsDesign.com - Montpellier, France
Euromonitor analyst Dodson said sustainability issues are exacerbated by
the popularity of scarce and exotic ingredients from the Amazon
rainforest and the...
Sep 24
Brazil, Venezuela agree joint energy projects
ABCmoney.co.uk - Birchington,Kent, UK
The 8000 km pipeline project will stretch from the Venezuelan region of
Guiria to Manaus in the Amazon rainforest and will cost an estimated
20 bln usd.
Amazonian forest 'more resilient'
BBC News - UK
Researchers found that during the 2005 drought, many parts of the
rainforest "greened", apparently growing faster. This
finding contrasts with some computer...
Sep 22
Brazil Will Privatize Amazonian National Forest
Daily Green - USA
The government-controlled Jamari National Forest is located in the state of
Rondonia, in the Amazon rainforest region, in the north of the
country....
Brazil pledge to spend on Indians
BBC News - UK
Indians represent less than 0.5% of Brazil's population and live
scattered throughout the vast Amazon rainforest. According to the
most recent census,...
Sep 21
Powerful position
Nature.com (subscription) - London, England, UK
Of the eight excellent essays in this book, I think the one that should
most attract our attention is Paul Bunyan's work on the Amazon
rainforest.
Drought Makes Amazon Rainforest Greener
FOX News - USA
By Andrea Thompson Droughts, paradoxically, seem to make the verdant
Amazon rainforest even greener, a new study suggests, giving
scientists hope that ...
Ecuador seeks oil 'compensation'
BBC News - UK
... area and launched a plan aimed at safeguarding the Yasuni park,
which covers some 9820 sq km (3791 sq miles) in the country's Amazon
rainforest region.
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley
Times Online - UK
... and Indian railway children to the inhabitants of the dwindling
Amazon rainforest, we lack almost entirely "useful sidelights"
on our own upper classes.
Sep 20
Brazil, Venezuela to move forward with oil ventures, gas pipeline plan
Jerusalem Post - Israel
... to forge ahead with two joint ventures between their state-run
oil companies and a natural gas pipeline that would stretch across the
Amazon rainforest.
Global Warming Miracle!
The Spoof (satire) - UK
The plan involves spreading thousands of tons of the miraculous growing aid
Miracle Grow over millions of acres of rainforest throughout the
Amazon and ...
rainforest resilient to drought
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson, AZ, USA
"It's just one piece of the climate system, but it's an important
one," Russell said of the Amazon rain forest. Salesko says the
work is not done...
Amazon Indian leader travelling to UK: 'Our people are dying, and ...
Survival International (press release) - London, UK
The visit comes as the issue of rainforest destruction and its link
to global warming is firmly back in the headlines. In a prophetic warning
four years ago ...
Sep 19
Nuggets and Hummers and fish sticks, oh my!
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA, USA
The World Bank recently reported that 90 percent of all Amazon
rainforest land cleared since 1970 is used for meat production.
...
Ecuador Congressman Presses Criminal Investigation of Chevron for ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
... for committing fraud in a botched remediation of a large
oil-related disaster in the Amazon rainforest, according to the
Amazon Defense Coalition...
Sep 18
Importer banks on liquor connoisseurs
DetNews.com - Detroit, MI, USA
Portions of the company's profits support a jaguar preserve in the
Amazon rainforest. "We're changing the way liquor is
done," said Joe Belli, the company's ...
Sep 17
Campaign agenda: Whatever happened to the rainforests?
Newconsumer.com - London,London, UK
If deforestation continues, in 40 years time, the Amazon, like
London, could be reduced to small patches of green space. Deforestation
is the second ...
US beach town splinters on plan to use Brazilian rainforest wood ...
International Herald Tribune - France
That touched off the blizzard of e-mails from environmentalists urging
Ocean City to scrap the rainforest wood plan in favor of plastic
composite lumber or ...
Sep 16
Making biofuels sustainable
Bangkok Post - Thailand
... of bad publicity for biofuels, which are being blamed for
everything from higher food prices to hastening the destruction of the
Amazon rainforest.
NJ town splinters on rainforest wood for boardwalk
Newsday - Long Island, NY, USA
That touched off a blizzard of e-mails from environmentalists urging Ocean
City to scrap the rainforest wood plan in favor of plastic composite
lumber or ...
Sep 15
Amazon tribal school opens
Channel 4 News - London, UK
An ancient tribe in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has developed a
scheme to keep their culture alive. The Ashaninka tribe has opened the
first-ever school ...
Sep 14
This weekend, life's a Caribbean carnival
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee, FL, USA
Many of the costumes were based on the Amazon rainforest. So there
are a lot of bright feathers like the parrots in the rainforest.
...
Drink up -- alternatives to processed cow milk
Telluride Daily Planet - Telluride, CO, USA
Also, because there is much more demand for soy products these days, the
environmental impact of soybean farming has increased (the Amazon
rainforest is ...
Ecuador: More than Gal=E1pagos
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - USA
Hence the strategy to encourage travelers to Ecuador to experience the
capital Quito, parts of the Amazon rain forest, the highlands, its
volcanoes...
Campaign Launched to Stop Ocean City, New Jersey from Using ...
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC, Canada
He will be telling stories about growing up in the Amazon. Friends
of the Rainforest is a grassroots New Jersey group that opposes the
use of rainforest ...
Sep 13
World needs a 10% meat diet to fight global warming
Mongabay.com - USA
Land clearing for cattle pasture is the largest driver of deforestation in
the Amazon rainforest and contributed significantly to deforestation
in Central ...
Sep 11
On September 11, six years later: Mourn, honor, and move on ...
Clarksville Online - Clarksville, TN, USA
I was soaked to the skin with sweat, reveling in the majesty of the
towering rainforest. In my photographic journal, I made a haunting
notation: 9-11-01.
Sep 9
Amazon Rainforest may go extinct by 2080 if deforestation keeps on
ITAR-TASS - Moscow,Russia
The country is already taking measures to contain the deforestation of the
Amazon Rainforest. Environment Minister Marina Silva said in late
August that ...
Jungle fever
Times Online - UK
... which is why the Amazon has never been as hot as it is
now. Sting and Madonna first swung our global eyes to the rainforest
in the 1980s.
Sep 8
Sambazon Acai Named to Inc. Magazine's 26 th Annual List of ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
Sambazon's model helps to combat environmental destruction, works to
protect the biodiversity of the Amazon Rainforest and creates new
and ongoing ...
Entertainment and Tech News Summary for Week Ending Sept. 7, 2007
Send2Press (press release) - Torrance, CA, USA
'Saving the Wild Jaguar and Rainforest.' Prestige Imports
originally purchased 2500000 sq. ft. of Pristine Amazon Rainforest
and recently formed an alliance ...
Sep 7
Greenpreace asks the new Democratic Congress to stop issuing White ...
The Spoof (satire) - UK
... damaging our ability to produce lumber domestically from
renewable sources, and once again become reliant on foreign imports from
the Amazon rainforest.
Tory backer jumps ship to become Brown adviser
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Mr Eliasch, who has spent =A38m on 400000 acres of Amazon rainforest,
in order to preserve it, is said to have privately complained to friends
about David ...
Johan Eliasch
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Mr Eliasch has donated cash to many green causes and in 2006 he bought a
400000-acre plot in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil for an estimated
=A38m to protect ...
Johan Eliasch: A multimillionaire with a conscience
Independent - London, England, UK
The Swede spent an estimated =A38m on a 400000-acre swathe of the
Amazon simply to save the pristine rainforest from logging
devastation...
Jaguar Vodka Rank #1 Vodka Edition Tasting Panel Magazine - August ...
Send2Press (press release) - Torrance, CA, USA
"Saving the Wild Jaguar & Rainforest" Prestige Imports
originally purchased 2500000 sq. ft. of Pristine Amazon Rainforest
and recently formed an alliance ...
Sep 6
Study abroad program takes students deep in the Amazon
Diamondback Online - College Park, MD, USA
But for 14 students this summer, living among an indigenous Amazonian tribe
in the rainforests of South America definitely had its payoffs.
...
Sep 5
Amazon River in Peru falls to second lowest level on record
Mongabay.com - USA
The news comes as worries mount that the Amazon rainforest will face
another dry year like that of 2005 when river commerce came to a
standstill...
Campus Calendar: September 5 - 8
BYU Newsnet - Provo, UT, USA
Rainforest Exhibit: Come visit the Amazon Rainforest at the
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum. Admission is for children ages five
through 12.
Brazil logging down
Sky News Australia - Australia
The Brazilian government has stated that deforestation of the Amazon
rainforest in Brazil has fallen to the lowest rate in at least seven
years.
Sep 4
Peru Energy Project Saves Rainforest
Latin Business Chronicle - Miami, FL, USA
Defying conventional assumptions, a vast natural gas project has helped to
protect 1.5 million hectares of rainforest in the Peruvian
Amazon.
Sep 3
Students dive into Amazon experience
Lansing State Journal - Lansing, MI, USA
"The rainforest is going to be in more danger than it has been
in the last decades," he said. "They don't have anywhere near
the resources they need."
Sep 2
businessman who despaired of ineffective politics
Times Online - UK
That leap was to buy 400000 acres of land - an area larger than Greater
London - in the Amazon rainforest, on which he has banned logging.
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