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Oct 30
Norway govt to spend 130 mln nkr to protect Amazon rainforest
Forbes - NY, USA
OSLO (Thomson Financial) - Norway will grant 130 mln nkr towards the
protection of the Amazon rainforest, the destruction of which is
increasing greenhouse ...
Uganda: Guyana Addresses Climate Change
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
No wonder, Guyana is the home of the Amazon rainforest we read about
in Geography during our high school days. Just two hours away lay the
portion of the ...
Malaria moves in behind the loggers
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Alongside the Amazon river and its many tributaries,
poverty-stricken loggers like Claudio move deep into the rainforest,
in areas where malaria is ...
Oct 29
Rainforest Discovery may Erase Some Diseases and Signs of Aging
Ivanhoe - Winter Park,FL, USA
A tree that grows in the Amazon rainforest is
offering new hope for diseases ranging from arthritis to irritable bowel
syndrome.
Sale of the sanctuary
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg, South Africa
How do you save the Amazon rainforest? Easy. All you need is a bit
of cash and a computer. Then go to the site of Cool Earth and, with a click
of the mouse...
INPE Renews DMC Contract
Satellite Today - Rockville,MD, USA
"The DMC data is an important affordable contribution to our
assessment of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest," Gilberto
Camara, director general of ...
Oct 28
Princely protection for rainforests
Charities Aid Foundation - West Malling, England, UK
But Prince Charles and the WWF are not about to let the destruction of the
rainforests continue. The Amazon Rainforest, which is the
largest tropical forest ...
Rain forest tree makes potent antioxidant
ImediNews - Tbilisi, Georgia
CLEVELAND (UPI) — US scientists have discovered an extract from an
Amazon rain forest tree is a potent antioxidant that can prevent
human cartilage ...
Amazon rainforest natural product may help block tissue destruction
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
Washington, Oct 25 : Scientists at Case Western Reserve University's
School of Medicine have discovered a natural product found in the Amazon
rainforest ...
Oct 26
Satellites help Brazil reduce Amazon deforestation
Ballard Communications Management - Dorking, England, UK
... DMC International Imaging Ltd., (DMCii) to acquire
high-resolution satellite images of the entire 5 million square kilometres
of the Amazon rainforest.
Prince of Wales gives keynote speech on the Amazon Rainforest
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC, Canada
Work by WWF and many others has established rainforests in the
public consciousness as some of the most beautiful and mysterious habitats
left in the world...
Help me save rainforest
Dorset Echo - England, UK
A THERAPIST is calling on local firms to save the Amazon
Rainforest through the power of collective healing. Bob Murphy, a
complementary ...
Spilling the beans on soy
Globe and Mail - Canada
Amount in square kilometres (an area about the size of Belgium) of
Amazon rainforest cleared for monoculture soybean farming between
August, 2003...
Prince Charles' call to protect rainforests
24dash - Hereford, UK
Charles will outline some of the issues affecting the Amazon
Rainforest, which is the largest tropical forest in the world, and home
to 10% of the planet's ...
Rain forest tree makes potent antioxidant
United Press International - USA
CLEVELAND, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- US scientists have discovered an extract from
an Amazon rain forest tree is a potent antioxidant that can prevent
human ...
Primates in peril: 25 species facing threat of extinction
Times Online - UK
He will outline some of the issues affecting the Amazon Rainforest,
the largest tropical forest in the world, and home to 10 per cent of the
planet's ...
Climate Change Seen Hurting Poor Regions
The Associated Press -
Many scientists believe that the extensive Amazon rainforest absorbs
carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. About 70 percent of the basin lies
in ...
Oct 24
Chevron Investors Urged To Freeze Purchase of Company Stock ...
Earthtimes - London, UK
The call came in separate letters from Styler and Amazon Watch, a
human rights and environmental group dedicated to protecting the
rainforest...
Oct 23
A MILLION TREES FOR THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
World Forum - USA
... descendants who reached this place fascinated with the green
tropical rainforest of the Amazonia of Hu=E1nuco and settled there
many years until present.
Natural Gas, Natural Neighbors
Latin Business Chronicle - Miami,FL, USA
Camisea=92s multiple wellheads pump natural gas from deposits 4000 meters
below the rainforest of the Lower Urubamba River. After the gas is
treated at Las ...
Brazil: The Business of Climate Change Part 3
Gringoes.com - Sao Paulo, Brazil
As recently as the 1970=91s the wood exporters now based in the Amazon
Rainforest were invited there on the back of a government 2 for 1
scheme...
Oct 22
Sanctioned American Lawyer Has No Connection to $10 Billion Class ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
... but as one can see from the federal court's decision, he
regularly forgets to respect the human rights of his own clients in the
Amazon rainforest.
Winging it in the Andes
Canada.com - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
A regular in the region might picture the rainforest wonder of Manu,
that magnificent reserve in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. But it takes
a veteran of South ...
Oct 21
2 men convicted in murder of US rainforest activist face retrials ...
The Canadian Press -
Stang, 73, was shot at close range on a muddy stretch of road deep in the
heart of the Amazon rainforest in February 2005. The retrial of
Rayfran das Neves ...
Oct 20
Charles' plea to protect Amazon jungle
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter The Prince of Wales will deliver an
impassioned plea this week for the need to save the Amazon
Rainforest from ...
That Guy: Amazon forest going down the pan
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
Since 1970, more than 600000sq km of Amazon rainforest have been
destroyed. Why is Brazil losing so much forest? Historically, a large
portion of ...
Brazil plans to search for oil in remote Amazon, raising ...
The Canadian Press -
The federal government is also building a pipeline through the
rainforest to carry the gas to the Amazonas state capital of Manaus,
a city of 1.5 million.
Oct 19
Ransoming the Rainforests
Plenty Magazine - New York, NY, USA
In the past decade, debt swaps have secured about 50 million acres of
rainforest worldwide; in the Amazon alone, loggers and
farmers clear-cut that much...
Sanctioned American Lawyer Has No Connection to $10 Billion Class...
Earthtimes - London, UK
QUITO, Ecuador, Oct. 19 — Representatives of indigenous groups and
Amazon rainforest communities suing Chevron for a massive oil
contamination in Ecuador...
Oct 18
Activists Trapped by Loggers
Greenpeace International - Amsterdam, Netherlands
The proposal seeks a broad commitment from the Brazilian government and
civil society to create measures protecting the Amazon rainforest.
Oct 17
Greenpeace Activists Trapped By Loggers in the Amazon Efforts to...
Common Dreams (press release) - Portland,ME, USA
By 2006, over one sixth of the Amazon rainforest had been destroyed,
equivalent to an area larger than France. Deforestation accounts for
one-fifth of...
Oct 16
The Amazon burns once again
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... to molest little children," Mr Adario added with mix of
frustration and irony. "And, as you can see, it is also illegal to
destroy the Amazon rainforest."
Amazon rainforest fires "worst" in memory
Mongabay.com - USA
Scientists are concerned that continued burning in the Amazon could
cause the world's largest rainforest to tip towards large-scale
ecosystem change,...
Fire in the Amazon
Macleans.ca - Toronto,Ontario, Canada
Near the top of his agenda was trying to end deforestation in the Amazon
rainforest. To this end, he said, his government was working hard, and
in the last...
Oct 15
Hazel Park teacher/coach leads rainforest voyages
Royal Oak Daily Tribune - Royal Oak,MI, USA
Hazel Park High School swim coach and mathematics teacher Kevin Gallatin
and two of his students spent 10 days in the Amazon rainforest last
summer....
New York City Is One of the Biggest Destroyers of the Amazon...
Axis of Logic - Boston,MA, USA
For New York City's 10 miles of boardwalk alone, over 110500 acres (130
square miles) of old growth Amazon rainforest were logged.
New York City Is America's Biggest Destroyer of the Amazon Rainforest
AlterNet - San Francisco, CA, USA
According to Simon Counsell, director of the Rainforest Foundation,
"what we see happening in the Amazon right now (logging, forest
fragmentation,...
Oct 13
Amazon tribe hits back at green 'colonialism'
Guardian Unlimited - UK
It's one of the most fashionable ideas to save the planet from global
warming: buying up tropical rainforest to save it from destruction.
...
New money is last hope in battle to save rainforests
Guardian Unlimited - UK
For instance, logging in the Congo, which has the second largest
rainforest after the Amazon, rose significantly after
relative stability returned to the...
"Zero" Amazon Deforestation Possible by 2015, Brazilian NGOs say
WorldChanging - USA
Halting deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is the objective of
nine Brazilian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have drafted an
ambitious plan...
Oct 11
Save the Rainforest Banner Raised at Chicago Board of Trade
Environment News Service - USA
The company already supports a soy moratorium in the Amazon Biome.
Bunge and Cargill have not responded directly to RAN's demands.
...
Save the Rainforest! Save the World!
ProgressiveU.org - San Mateo, CA, USA
Why should I care about rainforest destruction in Brazil or the
Amazon? Ever heard of global warming? Of course you have if you
watch TV, read the newspaper...
Oct 10
Protesters accuse Cargill of rainforest destruction
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC, USA
On its Web site, Cargill said it has been working since 2006 to create a
system to monitor soy production and curb deforestation in the
Amazon.
Brazilian shaman's visit – 'Buying rainforest won't save it'
Survival International (press release) - London, UK
But new research from Survival reveals that more than 162 million hectares
of the Amazon rainforest have already been secured – through their
protection as...
Oct 9
Ecuador: Swedish Construction Versus Indigenous Survival in the Amazon
Upside Down World - Hartwick, NY, USA
Traditionally, the Waorani people are rainforest nomads who live by
hunting and gathering, and researchers believe they have lived in the
Ecuadorian Amazon...
Brazil congress committee considers reducing Amazon protections
International Herald Tribune - France
... expressed concern Tuesday at legislation before congress they
said could lead to the destruction of a California-sized chunk of Amazon
rainforest....
Biofuel industry, government experts defend plan to plant...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP BRASILIA, Brazil: Brazilian agricultural officials and biofuel industry
representatives defended using already devastated parts of the Amazon
rainforest...
Ten Ultimate Rainforest Adventures
Forbes - NY, USA
... which works to conserve the biodiversity in rainforests.
The majority of them, such as the Amazon, which is the largest on
the planet, are concentrated...
Oct 8
It's all about Amazon chic now
Macleans.ca - Canada
The latest in luxury no longer hails from France or Italy, but is buried
deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest where entrepreneurs are
carving out a...
Chevron's Human Rights Problems Span Three Continents, According...
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles, CA, USA
In Ecuadorian courts, Chevron (formerly Texaco) is accused of intentionally
dumping 18 billon gallons of toxic waste into the Amazon rainforest
during the...
Oct 6
Amazon jungle 'could be lost in 40 years'
Hindu Business Line - India
LONDON: The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical
jungle in South America, could be lost in 40 years if development projects
to improve road and...
Wai Wai Tribe of Guyana to Protect Guyanese Amazon Rain Forest
About - News & Issues - New York, NY, USA
Amazon group bans loggers and miners (AP) : "An indigenous
group in Guyana, backed by government decree and a US-based conservation
organization,...
Seven years to end Amazon deforestation - Brazilian NGOs show how
Media Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
By 2006, approximately 17 per cent of the Amazon rainforest had been
destroyed, equivalent to an area larger than France. High rates of
deforestation are...
3-year-old boy lost in Brazil's Amazon rainforest found after 11 days
The Canadian Press -
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A three-year-old boy who was lost in the dense
Amazon rain forest was found after 11 days, apparently unharmed
except for...
Oct 5
Amazon Rainforest At Risk From Initiative To Connect South...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... projects could destroy much of the Amazon rainforest in
coming decades, according to a new study by Conservation International
scientist Tim Killeen....
Colorado troupe turns stage into wonderland
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs, CO, USA
By STEPHANIE IVES In the middle of Colorado, far, far, from the
Amazon rain forest, there'sa place where dazzling, colorful
creatures pirouette before your...
'We said to them, 'Come closer' but they said to us, 'Go further...
Guardian Unlimited - UK
This year the Brazilian government increased its estimate of the number of
isolated tribes in its part of the Amazon from 40 to 67. But it
acknowledged some...
Rainforest tribe establishes massive sustainable-use reserve
Mongabay.com - USA
"The Wai Wai could have sold off the timber and other natural assets for
a one-time payoff, but instead they chose to protect the rainforest
and allow...
Boy lost in Amazon for 11 days found
Earthtimes.org - New Zealand
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 5 A toddler lost in the dense jungle thicket of the
Amazon rainforest was found all right after 11 days, O Globo
television reported...
Brazil's wild wetland
Times Online - UK
The animals are frustratingly unsociable, disappearing into the
rainforest at the slightest rustle of binoculars. But Brazil's
Pantanal – the world's...
Oct 4
Fires rage in Amazon rainforest park
Mongabay.com - USA
Forest fires are raging in Xingu National Park in the Amazon
rainforest, according to a pioneering cattle
rancher-turned-conservationist in the Brazilian...
Indigenous group in Guyana declares Amazon homeland a conservation...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: An indigenous group in Guyana, backed by
government decree, has banned miners and loggers from its section of the
Amazon jungle...
South America chokes as Amazon burns
Independent - London, England, UK
... and much of Bolivia are choking under thick layers of smoke as
fires rage out of control in the Amazon rainforest, forcing the
cancellation of flights....
Oct 3
World Bank accused of razing Congo forests
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Congo's rainforests are the second largest in the world after
the Amazon, locking nearly 8% of the planet's carbon and having
some of its richest...
Seven years to save the Amazon
Greenpeace UK - London, UK
Weighed against the value of the rainforest in terms of biodiversity
and the livelihoods of the people who depend on it, it looks like small
change,...
Oct 2
Sighting of Amazon group bolsters environmentalist case
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Those who want to develop the rainforest have played down the impact
on its human inhabitants. Some even questioned their existence....
Amazon jungle may be lost in 40 years
Economic Times - India
3 Oct, 2007, 0910 hrs IST, PTI LONDON: The Amazon rainforest, the
world's largest tropical jungle in south America, could be lost in 40
years if development...
New Amazon rain forest risk is revealed
United Press International - USA
WASHINGTON, 2 (UPI) -- Conservation International scientists are warning a
plan to link South America's economies might destroy much of the
remaining Amazon...
Brazil court rejects request to indict air traffic controllers in...
International Herald Tribune - France
... Brazilian air traffic controllers in a collision last year
between an airliner and an executive jet over the Amazon rainforest
that killed 154 people....
Oct 1
Amazon Rainforest at risk from initiative to connect South...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington, DC, USA
... could destroy much of the Amazon rainforest in coming
decades, according to a new study by Conservation International (CI)
scientist Tim Killeen....
Providing Maternal Health Care in Ecuador's Amazon Region
UNFPA (press release) - New York, NY, USA
Widman lives 12 kilometres outside of Coca, a small urban spot in the vast
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador's Orellana province bordering
Colombia....
Bottled Water from the Rainforest
BusinessWeek - USA
With competition from Voss and Fiji and a growing bad rap for bottled
water, can a startup make it selling luxury water from the Amazon
rainforest? by...
Amazon jungle could be lost in 40 years, say campaigners
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... will open up previously inaccessible parts of the
rainforest, raising the risk of widespread deforestation that could
see the loss of the entire Amazon...
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