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Dec 31
Global poll begins to name seven natural wonders
Orangeburg Times Democrat - Orangeburg, SC, USA
By ELIANE ENGELER, AP Writer | Monday, December 31, 2007 GENEVA -- The
Grand Canyon, Mount Fuji and the Amazon rainforest are likely
contenders in a global ...
Dec 30
Trends for 2008: Cost-efficient trips home and abroad
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Aguas Negras and Cuyabeno River Tour in Ecuador: During this canoe paddling
tour, travelers glide through the Amazon Rainforest. 3.
Where Peru's wild things are
The Observer - UK
... of the Peruvian Amazon. Around 60 per cent of Peru is
tropical rainforest - only Brazil and the Democratic Republic of
Congo have more - and my lodge...
Dec 29
Amazon.com Announces ''Best of 2007'' Lists
WELT ONLINE - Germany
Bestselling Products The following is a list of the bestselling products on
Amazon.com in 2007 by total units sold: Books: "Harry Potter
and the Deathly ...
Exotic birds spotted in Enfield
Enfield & Haringey Independent - UK
By Charlie Stong THEY may be more at home in the Amazon rainforest
or parts of Australia, but we can assure you that this picture of a pair of
parakeets has ...
Dec 27
Brazil nuts help seed sustainability in rainforest
Inside Bay Area - Oakland, CA, USA
The Tambopata is a tributary of the Amazon and the reserve is home
to some of the world's most diverse and pristine rainforest.
Brazil nuts are indigenous ...
Dec 26
Environmentalist 'Today' Tale From the Amazon
NewsBusters - USA
By Mark Finkelstein | December 25, 2007 - 09:41 ET My ears perked up as
soon as I heard that Michelle Kosinski would be reporting from the
Amazon.
Dec 25
Brazil cracks down on illegal soy, cattle production in the Amazon
Mongabay.com - USA
Amazon landowners have seen their land values double every 4-5 years
in areas that just a decade ago were pristine rainforests. Given
this landscape some ...
Endangered species taste better, five-year study says
The Spoof (satire) - UK
"This particular pecker," Erwin explained, "lives in trees
at the edge of the Amazon rainforest. It pokes holes in tall trees
and enters into them to ...
The logic of green giving
BBC News - UK
And when an area of Amazon rainforest the size of Belgium has been
hacked down in one year, is the problem simply too big for charities to
tackle? ...
Dec 24
Now a global poll is out to select world's 7 natural wonders
Inside Bay Area - Oakland, CA, USA
By Eliane Engeler, AP THE GRAND Canyon, Mount Fuji and the Amazon
rainforest are likely contenders in a global poll of millions of people
to select the ...
Dec 23
Poll to determine seven natural wonders from six continents
commercialappeal.com (subscription) - Memphis, TN, USA
By Eliane Engeler / AP GENEVA -- The Grand Canyon, Mount Fuji and the
Amazon rainforest are likely contenders in a global poll of millions
of people to ...
Dec 22
Lula signs decree to tackle deforestation in Amazon
Xinhua - China
21 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed here on
Friday a decree to fight deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
...
Troubled Amazon corner
Latin America Press - Lima, Peru
Marcos Chambilla Copari recalls arriving in the of village of San Lorenzo,
in the southwestern Peruvian rainforest, in 1986, a refugee from
flooding around ...
Superfruits in the news 2007
FoodNavigator.com - Montpellier, France
... a fruit" on the grounds of its antioxidant content comes
from a tree in the cocoa family (Theobroma grandiflorum) which grows in the
Amazon rainforest.
Dec 21
Healed by the Amazon angels
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Flying medics risk treacherous landing conditions to reach sick people in
some of the most remote parts of the world's largest rainforest.
...
Hunting Resources in Peru
Wall Street Journal - USA
Spurred by Camisea's success, Peru has now opened wide swaths of the
Amazon rainforest for oil-and-gas exploration. With a Hunt liquefied
natural gas ...
Dec 20
UPDATE 1-Peru groups file for tribe near Petrolifera block
Reuters - USA
They hope the commission, part of the Organization of American States, will
recommend setting aside two areas in the Amazon rain forest for the
Cacataibo ...
Dec 19
Brazilian faces second retrial over nun's killing
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Stang, 73, lived in the Amazon basin for over 20 years and
campaigned against the destruction of the rainforest by loggers and
cattle farmers.
Rainforest destruction increasingly driven by corporate interests ...
Mongabay.com - USA
Last year, after pressure from Greenpeace, a group of the largest soy
crushers in the Amazon agreed to a moratorium on soy until they can
devise a tracking ...
Dec 18
8 South American Countries To Relaunch The Amazon Parliament
AHN - USA
Caracas, Venezuela (AHN) - Eight South American nations that share the
Amazon rainforest will relaunch the Amazon Parliament on
March 2008.
Dec 17
Illegal, polluting and dangerous: the gold rush in French Guiana
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The Brazilians arriving in French Guiana come over the River Oyapock, which
runs through the Amazon rainforest and demarcates much of the
420-mile border.
RAN Supports Brazilian Indigenous Group's Protest of US ...
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC, Canada
"Thousands of Indigenous people in the cerrado and the Amazon
rainforest are already experiencing health problems stemming from
polluted rivers and aerially ...
Bali delegates agree to support forests-for-climate (REDD) plan
Mongabay.com - USA
... squabbling between a coalition of forest nations and Brazil,
which sees REDD as an attempt to limit its economic development of the
Amazon rainforest.
Global poll will name 7 natural wonders
Detroit Free Press - United States
BY ELIANE ENGELER AP GENEVA -- The Grand Canyon, Mt. Fuji and the Amazon
rainforest are likely to be contenders in a global poll of millions of
people to ...
Dec 15
Eliasch co-founded "Cool Earth," which saves areas of Amazon ...
CNN - USA
Along with Labour politician Frank Field, Eliasch co-founded the Cool Earth
foundation, which seeks to buy areas of Amazon rainforest to save
them from ...
Johan Eliasch, chairman, Head group
CNN - USA
He has bought a piece of the Amazon rainforest the size of London,
and CNN's Todd Benjamin spoke to Mr Eliasch and asked what he hoped to
accomplish.
Before It Disappears
New York Times - United States
Last year, it was a stay at a remote lodge in the Amazon, and before
that, an ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. "We wanted to see the islands this
year," Mr.
Africa: Tackling Deforestation is Critical
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
"In a market-related mechanism [to fund efforts to prevent
deforestation in the Amazon rainforests there is no guarantee of
"how and when the money will ...
Dec 10 to De 14
Due to technical reasons, news archives are unavailable for Dec 10 to Dec 14. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Dec 10
The pipeline dream lurking in Canada's wild
Boston Globe - United States
As large and as ecologically important as the Amazon rainforest,
though less well known, Canada's Boreal Forest teems with wildlife:
caribou, grizzly bears...
More than half of Amazon will be lost by 2030, report warns
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Climate change could speed up the large-scale destruction of the Amazon
rainforest and bring the "point of no return" much closer
than previously thought...
Finally, GPS for college students
HeraldNet - Everett, WA, USA
Organizers say it's a way to highlight Earth's natural beauty, such
as the Grand Canyon or the Amazon rainforest. It's a follow-up
to the recent contest to ...
Amazon rainforest still faces threats from farming, logging
Boston Globe - United States
Scientists say the Amazon rainforest loses a Connecticut-sized chunk
of woodland each year. Above, fire damage was evident in Xapuri, Brazil, in
October.
Dec 8
Amazon deforestation rates drop 20% in 2007
Mongabay.com - USA
Deforestation rates in Brazil's Amazon rainforest dropped 20
percent since last year, reported the Brazilian National Institute of Space
Research (INPE).
UPI newstrack topnews
United Press International - USA
8 (UPI) -- The Brazilian government says deforestation in the Amazon
rainforest has declined for the third straight year. While Brazilian
President Luiz ...
Half of Amazon could be gone by 2030
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Paul Eccleston More than half of the Amazon rainforest could
disappear or be damaged by climate change and deforestation by 2030, a new
report warns.
Amazon clearing falls, but eco fears stand
The Age - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Noting the threat of climate change and deforestation, WWF said major loss
of the Amazon rainforest would make it impossible to keep global
temperatures ...
Dec 7
Governors take action to save rainforests
The Age - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Emissions from forestry account for about a fifth of the world's
greenhouse gas emissions, the vast majority from Indonesia and the
Amazon.
Cargill: Not just a Minnesota Company
Macalester College The Mac Weekly - St. Paul, MN, USA
Although I have lived in Minnesota and been familiar with the company
Cargill as a food provider for nearly three years, it took a trip to the
Amazon Rain ...
Global poll begins to name the seven natural wonders of the world
The Canadian Press -
GENEVA - The Grand Canyon, Mount Fuji and the Amazon rainforest are
likely contenders in a global poll of millions of people to select the
seven natural ...
Amazon rainforest disappearing faster than previously believed
Raw Story - Cambridge, MA, USA
A report released by the World Wide Fund for Nature is warning that more
than half of the Amazon rainforest could be gone by 2030 as a result
of increased ...
Dec 6
Amazon being destroyed 'faster than predicted'
ABC Online - Australia
The international conservation group WWF is warning that climate change and
deforestation are combining to destroy the Amazon rainforest far
more quickly ...
Dec 5
Amazon deforestation could be eliminated with carbon priced at $3
Mongabay.com - USA
The Amazon rainforest could play a major part in reducing greenhouse
gas emissions that result from deforestation, reports a new study published
by ...
Oil Developers Permitted to Penetrate Pristine Upper Amazon
Environment News Service - USA
WASHINGTON, DC, December 4, 2007 (ENS) - One of the most intact and
biodiverse rainforest regions on Earth, located in the Upper
Amazon Basin on the ...
Project will assess Amazon's future
Arizona Daily Wildcat - Tucson, AZ, USA
A United Kingdom climate model predicts the catastrophic dissolution of the
Amazon rainforest beginning in the middle of this century.
...
Dec 4
Switched On: Rainforest fire (Part 2)
engadget - Santa Monica, CA, USA
Last week''s Switched On discussed some of the similarities and
differences between Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader. Where
the Kindle really sets itself ...
Global Warming Update
RushLimbaugh.com (subscription) - Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
Try this headline: "Drought Makes Amazon Rainforest
Greener." Drought would be global warming, because everything is
global warming -- and listen to the ...
Dec 3
Carbon trading 'key to stopping deforestation'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Paul Eccleston Carbon trading could be the key to stopping the
destruction of the rainforests, a new report claims. In the past
deforestation has been ...
Global poll to name 7 natural wonders
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By ELIANE ENGELER AP Writer GENEVA—The Grand Canyon, Mount Fuji and the
Amazon rainforest are likely contenders in a global poll of millions
of people to ...
This Holiday Give Organic Hair Treatments from the Amazon ...
PR Web - Ferndale, WA, USA
... of the Amazon Rainforest where women from the
Quechua-Shuar tribe have been collecting Rahua nuts from the jungle floor
during the gathering season.
Amazon rainforest proposals issued
Green Consumer Guide - UK
New research on the Amazon rainforest has underlined the importance
of the region to the Earth's ecosystem and presented a range of ways in
which climate ...
Dec 2
Use of free technology--an Indian tribe shows us the way
Inquirer.net - Philippines
... THE Amazon Indians do better than us in using Google
Earth, Global Positioning System (GPS), and other technologies in
protecting their rainforest and ...
Opera in the Amazon: Una Noche M=E1gica
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati, OH, USA
... sponsorships and an auction, $250000 was raised to benefit the
opera. In addition, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the
Rainforest Alliance.
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