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Nov 29
Could the carbon market save the Amazon rainforest?
Mongabay.com - USA
"Rainforests may become seasonally flammable in dry years, but
without anthropogenic ignition sources fire is a rare occurrence. Hence
fire has been a weak ...
Climate change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon rainforest
netPR.pl (komunikaty prasowe) - Poland
... 29 Nov 2007 The Amazon rainforest is a crucial component
of the Earth's system; one which faces the dual threats of climate
change and deforestation.
Amazon rainforest 'could resist climate change'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor The Amazon rainforest can
withstand climate change and can help to mend the global climate as long as
enough forest ...
Nov 28
The Today Show Touts Cupua=E7u
NPIcenter - Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Para, Brazil, November 2007- Nestled in the basin of the Amazon
Rainforest grows a tropical tree whose fruit is high in antioxidants,
nutrients and minerals ...
Earthfruits says cupuacu could be next superfruit
NutraIngredients-usa.com - Montpellier, France
The company partners with local co-ops to obtain wild-harvested fruit from
deep within the Amazon rainforest. "Because of our location in
Para...
Indians show the way to forest conservation
Inquirer.net - Philippines
... magazine about how the Amazon Indians are using Google
Earth, Global Positioning System (GPS) and other technologies in protecting
their rainforest and ...
Dutch bank arranges Amazon rainforest carbon-conservation deal
Mongabay.com - USA
Backers hope the concept could pave the way for future carbon finance
initiatives in the Amazon rainforest. Beginning next month, Rabobank
will provide ...
Nov 27
Wealthy nations must pay for rainforest protection: Brazil's Lula
ABC Online - Australia
Brazil itself is one of the largest carbon emitters, mainly due to
deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil, a major developing
world trading power ...
Ground-breaking Amazon rainforest imagery will help monitor ...
Mongabay.com - USA
Scientists have developed a ground-breaking high resolution snapshot of
400000 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest. The work will help
researchers ...
Switched On: Rainforest fire (Part 1)
engadget - Santa Monica, CA, USA
Did Amazon have visions of Farenheit 451 for its electronic book
reader? Perhaps, at $399, the product is aimed at those who have the kind
of paper to burn ...
Nov 26
"Justicia Now" Documents "Rainforest Chernobyl"
PlanetSave.com - Portland, ME, USA
Launched on behalf of 30000 indigenous peoples in Ecuador's Amazon
rainforest, the suit charges that Texaco (since acquired by Chevron)
poisoned the region ...
Home / News / ONE Signs On with Natural/Specialty S...
The Beverage Network - USA
ONE is committed to the sustainability of the Amazon rainforest and
donates a percentage of profits to not-for-profit organizations such as
Healthy Child ...
Nov 25
greenpeace protests against amazon deforestation
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China
greenpeace held a protest against the deforestation of the amazon
rainforest on wednesday in the federal capital of brasilia, mid-western
brazil. at tres ...
Nov 24
green groups sign forest declaration
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
... business leaders and scientists - was launched in brazil's
amazon rainforest in september and will be presented to world
leaders at the un conference in ...
Nov 22
can a smoothie save the rainforest?
Guardian Unlimited - UK
intensive cattle farming is decimating the amazon rainforest, but
there is hope - in the shape of a marble-sized, purple berry, staple
ingredient of a ...
Greenpeace protests against Amazon deforestation
Xinhua - China
21 (Xinhua) -- Greenpeace held a protest against the deforestation of the
Amazon rainforest on Wednesday in the federal capital of Brasilia,
mid-western ...
Nov 21
Amazon rainforest children to get medicinal plant training from ...
Mongabay.com - USA
The Amazon rainforest houses tens of thousands of plant species,
many of which hold promise for warding off pests and fighting human
disease.
Whale lost in Amazon found dead
BBC News - UK
A minke whale that had strayed deep into the Amazon rainforest has
been found dead. The 5.5m (18ft) whale was believed to have become lost in
the Amazon's ...
Green groups sign forest declaration
The Age - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Forests NOW Declaration - which is backed by many major green groups,
business leaders and scientists - was launched in Brazil's Amazon
rainforest in ...
Nov 20
Amazon whale escapes sandbar
ABC Online - Australia
A 5.5-metre-long minke whale has been spotted deep inside the Amazon
rainforest, more than 1600km from the Atlantic Ocean. The whale was
spotted when it ran ...
Baby, it's so cold outside
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
"Having just witnessed with my own eyes a few days ago in Antarctica
and in the Amazon rainforest the effects of a changing climate, I
can tell you with ...
Nov 19
Jean-Pierre Dutilleux: Unlocking doors to ancient wisdom
Jakarta Post - Jakarta, Indonesia
A decade after the film's release, Duvilleux with musician Sting and
Brazilian Kayapo tribal chief, Raoni, established The Rainforest
Foundation and ...
Nov 17
Minke Whale Spotted Deep in the Amazon Rainforest
Environmental Graffiti - London, England, UK
Over 1000 miles from the ocean, villagers and scientists searched the
Amazon River in a hidden corner of the Brazilian rainforest
for a lost 12-ton whale.
Opera fans party in the Amazon
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH, USA
The theme, "Late Night in the Amazon," is carried out in
rainforest d=E9cor, music by DJ Will Benson and an exotic midnight
buffet by Funky's.
'Amazon and Antarctic are being destroyed'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... said he was "alarmed" by the quickening pace of global
warming, which is causing the melting of ice sheets and destruction of the
Amazon rainforest.
Can a smoothie save the rainforest?
The Observer - UK
Intensive cattle farming is decimating the Amazon rainforest, but
there is hope - in the shape of a marble-sized, purple berry, staple
ingredient of a ...
Nov 16
UN Chief Visits Amazon Jungle in Brazil
Voice of America - USA
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has visited the
Amazon in Brazil and pledged UN support to preserve the world's
largest rainforest.
Planet Earth: The Complete Collection
DVDTOWN.com - USA
... world (Amazon), and see time-lapse photography of the
most extreme and quick-turnover recycling (decaying matter in the Amazon
rainforest) in the world.
Nov 15
A clean, green machine?
Guardian Unlimited - UK
After years of castigation by western greens over the plight of the
Amazon rainforest, there is a genuine sense of satisfaction that a
developing country ...
Nov 14
Mineral licks attract neotropical bats
Science Centric - Sofia, Sofia Town, Bulgaria
Christian Voigt and his colleagues captured bats at salt licks and randomly
selected sites in the Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
rain forest.
UN chief promises to back anti-deforestation efforts in Brazil
Xinhua - China
13 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday voiced his support
for Brazil's efforts to preserve its Amazon rainforest.
...
Oil and Militarized Corporate Terrorism
Upside Down World - Hartwick, NY, USA
Today, there is important local resistance against looting and destruction
taken place all over the Amazon rainforest and on indigenous
territories.
Bags more Change with new ethical shoppers
Newconsumer.com - London, England, UK
... there'sa leather-look latex version that supports a rubber
tapping cooperative and helps to protect the Amazon rainforest from
exploitation.
The Border Forests
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru
... papers announcing the first dispatches, posted on the Internet
by a group of adventurers, from their campsite in the heart of the
Amazon rainforest.
Single-largest Biodiversity Survey Says Primary Rainforest Is ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Working in the north-eastern Brazilian Amazon the international team
of scientists undertook the single-largest assessment of the biodiversity
conservation ...
Nov 13
Ban Ki-moon Visits Amazon Rainforest
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
... Ban Ki-moon concluded the South American phase of his latest
tour with a visit to the Amazon rainforest and meetings with local
indigenous leaders.
In the Amazon, primary forest biodiversity tops that of secondary ...
Mongabay.com - USA
Plantations and secondary forests are no match for primary Amazon
rainforest in terms of biodiversity, reports the largest ever
assessment of the ...
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ANNOUNCES 2008 AMAZON EXPEDITION
World-Wire - USA
... and nutritional properties of plants found in the
rainforest. Duke, one of the expedition faculty who has studied in
the Amazon for many years...
Existing rainforest 'is irreplacable'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... team in the Amazon. As world leaders prepare to meet in
Bali to discuss using carbon credit schemes to encourage the conservation
of primary rainforest...
Nov 12
UN chief, Lula discuss Brazil's fight against climate change
AFP -
It has enacted laws to protect its Amazon rainforest, and is
converting its entire fleet of cars to accept both petrol and ethanol -- a
biofuel it makes ...
Peru's rainforest wilderness
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
In a carefully protected corner of the Amazon rainforest, Anthony
Gardner goes for a walk so far off the beaten track it's impossible to
get there by road.
Nov 11
A leisurely trip by riverboat through the Amazon rainforest
New York Daily News - New York, NY, USA
To him, it was just another day's hunt for groceries - fresh fish, wild
pig, maybe even a capybara, the Amazon rainforest's dog-sized
rodent.
Nov 9
Who are the real climate leaders?
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon
rainforest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity.''
Villagers in Bo Nok, Chana and elsewhere could ...
Intel to produce motherboards in Brazil
Xinhua - China
The move is said to stimulate the industrial development in the Amazon
rainforest region. It was the first time for Intel to sign such an
agreement which ...
Artivist Film Festival Gets Slapped Over Oil Sponsor
Ecorazzi - Ithaca, NY, USA
Apparently, the firm has regularly drilled in pristine areas of the
Amazon rainforest, including within the territories of uncontacted
indigenous peoples.
Nov 8
How to stop climate change: the easy way
New Statesman - London, England, UK
Above two degrees, our chances of crossing "tipping points" in
the earth's system - such as the collapse of the Amazon
rainforest, or the release of methane ...
DIRECTOR PULLS DOCUMENTARY FROM ARTIVIST FILM FEST OVER ...
Internet Video Magazine - San Diego,CA, USA
'Justicia Now' is a documentary about ChevronTexaco's toxic legacy
in the Northern Ecuadorian region of the Amazon rainforest - and a
courageous group of ...
Nov 7
Subtle threats could ruin the Amazon rainforest
Mongabay.com - USA
While the mention of Amazon destruction usually conjures up images
of vast stretches of felled and burned rainforest trees, cattle
ranches, and vast soybean ...
New peccary species discovered by embattled Amazon scientist
Mongabay.com - USA
A new species of peccary has been discovered in the Amazon
rainforest by a scientist recently charged with biopiracy by the
Brazilian government.
Nov 6
Exploring the Amazon
About - News & Issues - New York, NY, USA
Harriet O'Brien introduces South America's rainforest
region" with descriptions of the river itself, wildlife viewing, tour
operators from the UK...
Oil's Bloody Secrets in Ecuador and Bolivia
Upside Down World - Hartwick, NY, USA
Despite that, Skanska works with Repsol-YPF in some of Latin America's
most vulnerable regions (including the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador,
...
Nov 5
New pig-like creature discovered in the Amazon
International Animal Rescue - Uckfield, England, UK
The Amazon Rainforest is the most biodiverse area on the planet.
Around a third of all known species live in the region.
Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival in Tucson: Tickets on ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release) - Tucson,AZ, USA
Larry Lansburgh, creator of Dream People of the Amazon, said, "The
connections between us and the indigenous people of the Amazon
rainforest are profound.
The Complete Guide To: The Amazon
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
The Amazon basin – and the vast tropical rainforest that it
supports – extends over 7 million square kilometres, or roughly 30 times
the size of the United ...
Nov 4
Rich pickings
Scotsman - United Kingdom
He always seems to have a frying pan handy, whether he's in the
Amazon rainforest or woodlands of Scotland. On reflection, I can see
why Mr Fungi put us off ...
Nov 3
McDonalds and Cargill in plan to help Amazon forests
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The unlikely alliance forms the basis for sustainable development model not
just in the Amazon but all over Brazil, home to most of the
Amazon rainforest...
Nov 2
Globo TV International Reveals ATF Slate
World Screen News - New York, NY, USA
Unveiled at MIPCOM in October, the mini-series Amazonia, available as
45x45-minute or 3x90-minute episodes, is set in the middle of the Amazon
rainforest.
Norway gives 17 million euros to protect the Amazon
AFP -
OSLO (AFP) — Norway said Tuesday it would donate 130 million kroner (17
million euros, 24 million dollars) to help protect the Amazon
rainforest...
Nov 1
Down to Earth
AXcess News - Georgetown,KY, USA
Let me tell you a story about the Amazon rainforest. No doubt you
have heard of the place either in sixth grade geography or in the recent
hoopla about its ...
At Home: Amazon flows north
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL, USA
Native to Brazil, at one time the tree grew only in the Amazon
rainforest, until the value of its rubber production became known and
it was later ...
Green forest: Esteemed habitat needs protection
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
There is little stress, little mental illness and little high blood
pressure among rainforest dwellers. Their physical fitness is
generally good...
Botanical Garden exhibit looks at 'vegan' piranha
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL, USA
And it promises to teach people plenty about Brazil, the Amazon
Rainforest and many of the plants and critters that call it home.
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