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Jan 31
Brazil unable to curb Amazon destruction
Reuters UK - UK
By Raymond Colitt BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government is unwilling
and unable to halt destruction in the Amazon rainforest despite
emergency measures ...
A guide to the rainforest
Helium - Andover, MA, USA
by Sophie Woodside Tropical rainforests are found in the
Amazon basin in Brazil, Central America, central Africa, South East
Asia, the western coast of ...
Johann Hari: There is a way to save the rainforests
Independent - London, England, UK
The Brazilian government was forced to admit that the destruction of the
Amazon rainforest has returned to ecocidal levels. An area the size
of Belgium...
It's a jungle out there
Living in Peru - Lima, Peru
However, other Amazon leaders want to make it clear that they're
not against private investors entering the rainforest, but would
rather work side by side ...
ENVIRONMENT: Satellites Show Logging Decline in Peru's Amazon Region
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome, Italy
By Stephen Leahy* TORONTO, Aug 18 (Tierram=E9rica) - Rainforest
conservation policies are reducing the rate of deforestation in the
Peruvian Amazon...
Jan 30
Author to appear at An Open Book
Greeley Tribune - Greeley, CO, USA
The American-born nun had threatened the sanctions that allowed land
developers to slash and burn the Amazon rainforest and had
championed the rights of ...
It's a bleak future for Britain's future leaders
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The Amazon rainforest will be gone, the world will be plagued by
environmental disasters, oil will be prohibitively expensive and there will
still be no ...
MP’s campaign for Amazon rainforest
Wirral Globe - Wirral, England, UK
By Staff reporter EUROPEAN Union cuts in greenhouse gas emissions could be
entirely wiped out by increased destruction of the Amazon
rainforest...
Berkeley Commission Urges Chevron Boycott
Berkeley Daily Planet - Berkeley, CA, USA
Texaco, which became part of Chevron in 2001, dumped more than 18 billion
gallons of toxic wastewater into Amazon rainforests from 1964 to
1992...
Return to the Amazon With Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
Emptying into the great Atlantic Ocean, it flows through the world's
largest tropical rainforest, the vast, natural theater where
evolution has gone wild...
Jan 29
Greed for meat, soy kills rainforest at record speed
Indian Muslims - San Diego, CA, USA
... da Silva called a crisis meeting with six top ministers in
Brasilia on news that the Amazon rainforest was destroyed at record
pace in recent months.
Napanee author fictionlizes experiences in Brazil
Napanee Guide - Napanee, Ontario, Canada
... and even after their return to Canada, the large-scale
destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the Brazilian way of life
weighed heavy on Roy’s heart.
Around Brazil: Santarem & Alter do Chao
Gringoes.com - Sao Paulo, Brazil
The joys of globalisation mean that China‘s development is one of the
biggest threats to the Amazon Rainforest. Interesting huh? Obviously
Europe takes in ...
Jan 28
Can you rationalize deforestation in the Amazon?
Nature.com (subscription) - London, England, UK
... feeble mosquito net), and interacting with many local Brazilians
who live at the intersection between their development and the might
Amazon rainforest.
Brazilian lawyers propose international court to save Amazonia
Earthtimes - London, UK
Brasilia - The Brazilian bar association on Friday proposed the creation of
an international tribunal to fight deforestation in the Amazon
rainforest...
Brazil acts after jump in Amazon clearing
Carbon Positive - Hague, Netherlands
The Brazilian government has introduced new measures to fight deforestation
of the Amazon rainforest following an apparent surge in land
clearing in the ...
How much would it cost to end Amazon deforestation?
Mongabay.com - USA
... Amazon deforestation during the second half of 2007, the
question emerges, how much would it cost to end the destruction of
Earth's largest rainforest? ...
Jan 26
7000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed in late 2007 says Greenpeace
Mongabay.com - USA
Brazilian government figures will likely show that more than 7000 square
kilometers of Amazon rainforest were destroyed between August and
the end December ...
Army sent in to save rainforest
Nature.com (subscription) - London, England, UK
Brazil is preparing to call on the army in a bid to stop Amazon
deforestation. New figures show deforestation increased markedly in the
last five months...
Brazil's Johnny Appleseed
Forbes - NY, USA
The Atlantic forest is the most neglected part of the rainforest in
Brazil. The country has two big forest ecosystems, the Amazon
rainforest and the ...
Where in the World...?
The Western Gazette - Ontario, Canada
Brazil: An unprecedented loss of Amazon rainforest has made a
hypocrite out of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. “Lula,” as he is
known in Brazil...
Friday Morning Coffee
UN Dispatch - USA
>>Brazil announced yesterday that the rate of Amazon
rainforest destruction increased roughly 400 percent from August to
December 2007.
Jan 25
New bid to save Amazon rainforest
CBBC Newsround - London, England, UK
The Amazon rainforest is being given extra protection, because the
Brazilian government is worried about quickly it is being destroyed.
...
Greed for meat, soy kills rainforest at record speed - Feature
Earthtimes - London, UK
... called a crisis meeting with six top ministers on Thursday in
Brasilia on news that the Amazon rainforest was destroyed at record
pace in recent months.
Brazil to act over acceleration in deforestation
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Tim Hirsch in S=E3o Paulo An emergency package to curb deforestation in
the Amazon is being drawn up by the Brazilian government, after
satellite images ...
Amazon deforestation jumps in the second half of 2007
Mongabay.com - USA
... head of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which
tracks deforestation in the Amazon via satellite, said that 3235 sq
km of rainforest was ...
Satellite images show widespread destruction of Amazon rainforest
Times Online - UK
Marina Silva, the Environment Minister, blamed the increase costs of
commodities, with farmers treating the Amazon as cheap and available
land.
World Bank helps to cut into Amazon
Independent Online - Cape Town, South Africa
Since the "Save the Amazon" campaigns of the 1970s the
role of illegal ranchers in the destruction of the rainforest has
been widely known.
An Atrophy of the "lungs of the world"
ToTheCenter.com - Malverne, NY, USA
Nicknamed the "lungs of the world," the Amazon rainforest
in Brazil is currently being subjected to steadily increasing rates of
deforestation...
Amazon, Arctic both shrinking
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
Between August and December, 3235 sq km of the world's largest
rainforest was lost, and environment ministry officials said that
preliminary figure was ...
Alternative take
Scotsman - United Kingdom
T hey are at least as important as the animals of the Amazon
rainforest, yet the so-called "green lobby" can look the
other way while the Lewis trout are ...
Jan 24
Biofuels could generate extensive
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Indonesia is planning to cut down rainforests in order to supply
more palm oil. Brazil threatens the Amazon rainforests by exporting
ethanol from sugar cane ...
World Bank admits Congo errors
Financial Times Deutschland - Germany
... of "omissions" in reforms it supported to promote the
sustainable exploitation of the Congo rainforest, the world's
second largest after the Amazon.
Deforestation surges in Amazon forest
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China
The Amazon area lost 3235 square kilometers of rainforest in
the last five months of 2007, four times as much as in the same period of
2004...
55% of the Amazon may be lost by 2030
Mongabay.com - USA
... changes occurring in the region — chiefly from deforestation,
logging, fire, and drought — could portend a difficult future for the
Amazon rainforest.
Jan 23
NJ Mayor Scraps Boardwalk Plan
Houston Chronicle - United States
Residents who have fought the rainforest wood plan for a year were
shocked at the latest development. "How can you do that if you're
canceling the contract? ...
OC cancels wood contract, then uses some
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill, NJ, USA
By WAYNE PARRY AP The mayor of this South Jersey beach town agreed today to
scrap a plan to use tropical rainforest wood to repair part of its
boardwalk ...
Jan 22
Biofuels News
Checkbiotech.org (press release) - Basel, Switzerland
In an interview with Ethanol Statistics, prof Zuurbier tries to explain a
dynamic process between illegal activities in the Amazon rainforest
and the ...
New Jersey scraps plan to buy Amazon rainforest timber
Mongabay.com - USA
The city council of Ocean City in New Jersey voted 6-0 last Thursday to
cancel a $1.1 million purchase of ip=EA timber originating in the Amazon
rainforest.
Beaver Creek film series closes with film about Peruvian Indians
Vail Daily News - Vail, CO, USA
... “The Mystic Traveler” (2002), and “Woven Songs of the
Amazon” (2006). She is currently in production on “Keepers of
the Rainforest” and “Traversing the ...
Around Brazil: Amazon Swarms and Amazon Storms
Gringoes.com - Sao Paulo, Brazil
By Ricky Skelton After a three day trip had turned into 7 drunken nights, 8
breakdowns, 9 towing booze cruise of 10 remote Amazon towns, we
rocked up in ...
'Ethanol production Brazil is not causing deforestation in the ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria
In an interview with Ethanol Statistics, Mr. Zuurbier tries to explain a
dynamic process between illegal activities in the Amazon rainforest
and the ...
Jan 21
The Wrinkle Cure - Dietary Tips To Look 15 Years Younger Part 2
Best Syndication - Pinon Hills, CA, USA
It is a Brazilian berry that is found in the Amazon rainforest and
is extremely powerful. It tastes like chocolate and so is delicious but it
is a fantastic ...
Destruction of Amazon forest accelerates
Independent Online - Cape Town, South Africa
By Daniel Howden The destruction of the Amazon rainforest has surged
in the past four months, raising the prospect of 2008 being a disastrous
year for the ...
Jan 20
Global Weirding Briefs
NYC Independent Media Center - New York, NY, USA
Here are some examples of global warming in action: DISAPPEARING
RAINFOREST: Scientists reported that 60 percent of the Amazon
rainforest could disappear or ...
Ecuador an eco-tourism must; Sudbury woman offering presentation ...
Sudbury Star - Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
"It's such a small country, but you've got Galapagos, the
coast, the Andes - Volcano Alley - the Amazon rainforest. It's
really diverse .
Jan 19
Plowing up the Amazon
Grist Magazine - Seattle, WA, USA
A fifth of the Amazon rainforest -- the world's biggest carbon
sponge -- has disappeared since the 1970s. The Brazilian government has
succeeded in recent ...
Ron Schueler (3)
Baseball Toaster - Alameda, CA, USA
... one guy teaching a couple of classes when he wasn’t leading
tours through the Amazon rainforest and selling photographs to
National Geographic...
GreenTracks Amazon Riverboat Expedition with Anthropologist
PR.com (press release) - Levittown, NY, USA
She will provide insight into the indigenous people of the Amazon
and their environment while exploring the river and rainforest by
comfortable riverboat. ...
Ancient Amazon trees help illuminate speed of planet's warming
OCRegister - Santa Ana, CA, USA
By PAT BRENNAN Some of the trees in the vast Amazon rainforest might
have been alive when Columbus landed in the New World. And that could be
bad news for ...
Jan 18
Boardwalk fix in Ocean City stalls on wood
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, PA, USA
There is a huge difference," said Tim Keating, executive director of
Rainforest Relief, a New York-based group that led yet another
protest in Ocean City ...
Amazon deforestation surging due to oil, soy prices
Mongabay.com - USA
A Brazilian scientist has confirmed that forest clearing in the has surged in recent months, according to Reuters.
...
World Bank Pledges to Save Trees, Then Helps Cut Down Amazon
AlterNet - San Francisco, CA, USA
Now research reveals it funds the rainforest's biggest threat.
The World Bank has emerged as one of the key backers behind an explosion of
cattle ranching ...
Jan 17
How the beautiful designs of nature could help save the planet
The Herald - Glasgow, Scotland, UK
In the sunlight, the sparkling wings of the morpho butterflies of the
Amazon rainforest shimmer in turquoise, blue and silver. The bright,
metallic hues are ...
Amazon outreach reaches out first
Ode Magazine - Mill Valley, CA, USA
If built, the lodge would bring tourists to this amazing area of this
country to explore the Amazon River and the rainforest it
shares with expert guides. ...
Jan 16
France Used to be a Jungle
Canada Free Press - Toronto,Ontario, Canada
The organic compound found within this French amber, has only one
precursor, produced by a tree only found in the Amazon rainforest,
in Brazil. ...
GreenTracks Announces Amazon Riverboat Expedition with ...
Newswire Today (press release) - London, UK
She has studied the sustainable use of rainforest products and the
impact of tourism on the indigenous tribes of the Amazon. Her
understanding of indigenous ...
Ancient soil methods impress modern science and help climate
environmentalresearchweb (subscription) - Bristol, England, UK
Terra Preta technique from the Amazon rainforest can sequester
carbon and provide carbon-neutral energy. An ancient agricultural technique
from the Amazon ...
NJ Shore Town Could Scrap Boardwalk Deal
Forbes - NY, USA
Ten years ago, Ocean City voted never to use tropical rainforest
wood again for its 2 1/2 mile-long boardwalk that is a mixture of ipe and
domestic yellow ...
Jan 15
Use Video and Audio
Wall Street Journal - USA
Rhett Butler, founder of Mongabay.com, a site with articles on
rainforest conservation and other environmental issues, makes $15000
to $18000 a month from ...
Ocean City may scrap rainforest wood boardwalk deal
Newsday - Long Island, NY, USA
The wood, which was supposed to be certified as having been harvested
responsibly from trusted sources in the Amazon, cost anywhere
between 30 and 70 ...
The Denial Screamers
Kansas City Star - MO, USA
Most of these people, as far as I know, don't own coal fired power
plants, nuclear facilities or want to burn down the to create soybean ...
New Vegan, Organic Skin Care Line: RARE2B ® Delivers Results Naturally
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... only top-quality natural, organic, vegan ingredients from
sustainable fair trade sources in the Amazon Rainforest and the
South Australian Rainforest. ...
Building blocks
Times Online - UK
A trifle Amazon rainforest but striking nevertheless – and a case
in point of the number one rule: with block colours stick to softer tones,
they are kinder ...
Pressures build on Amazon jungle
BBC News - UK
... holds for this vast rainforest. The scale of the
challenge is widely acknowledged. In the past 40 years, close to 20% of the
Amazon has been cut down. ...
Jan 14
Fat cat with a conscience, or green colonialist?
Czech Business Weekly - Prague, Czech Republic
In 2006 he bought 400000 acres of the Amazon rainforest for a
rumored =A3 8 million. He subsequently banned logging on the territory,
saying that his aims ...
Kumuka Worldwide release new South & Central America brochure 2008-09
e-Travel Blackboard (press release) - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Highlights include the green mountains, coastal rainforest and miles
of glorious beaches surrounding Rio; Parati, with its charming cobbled
streets and ...
Jan 13
Rainforest rescue
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Preserving the most important and diverse rainforest north of the
Amazon means that a major piece of the Earth's biodiversity will
remain intact. ...
Jan 12
Guyana awards South Haven company large logging concession
Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek, MI, USA
AP GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A US logging company has won the rights to
harvest trees in a large portion of Guyana’s Amazon rainforest,
the company said today. ...
Jan 11
America's largest monkey recovering after brush with extinction
Mongabay.com - USA
Do you see climate change as a particular threat to the rainforest?
Yes, especially in the Atlantic forest, which has already been so reduced
in size and ...
Jan 10
Guyana grants 1 million acres of Amazon rainforest to US logging firm
Mongabay.com - USA
Guyana has awarded a 988,4000-acre logging concession to a US forestry
company, reports the Associated Press. Simon & Shock International, a
company based ...
Auction for Amazon Commercial Logging Lures 8 Bidders (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
It's part of an effort to reduce illegal deforestation of the Amazon
rainforest, which spans nine nations and covers 5 percent of the
world's land.
Jan 9
New York City ends use of Amazon rainforest hardwoods in parks
Mongabay.com - USA
Decision to ban use of hardwoods logged from the rainforests of the
Amazon follows campaign by environmental groups. In a meeting with
representatives of ...
Guyana awards US company large logging concession
International Herald Tribune - France
AP GEORGETOWN, Guyana: A US logging company has won the rights to harvest
trees in a large portion of Guyana's Amazon rainforest, the
company said Tuesday.
Amber contains hint of Paris's tropical past
Chemistry World - London, UK
Akino Jossang and colleagues suggest the compound's precursor came from
an ancient tree related to a species now found only in the Amazon
rainforest ...
People’s Car drives ‘green colonialism’
Emirates Business 24/7 - Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Examples range from the US lobbying for a CFC ban, to when a millionaire
bought a 400000-acre plot of Amazon rainforest just to prevent
people from chopping ...
Jan 8
Amber Fossils Reveal Ancient France Was A Jungle
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... organic compound in amber called "quesnoin," whose
precursor exists only in sap produced by a tree currently growing only in
Brazil's Amazon rainforest.
A=E7a=EDzone Announces Exclusive Agreement With GCI Nutrients to ...
Earthtimes - London, UK
Traditionally used as a food source and medicine by the Caboclo, the
aboriginal peoples native to the Amazon rainforest, the A=E7a=ED berry
has become widely ...
Jan 7
Global poll to select world's natural wonders
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai, China
By Eliane Engeler 2008-1-7 The Grand Canyon, Mount Fuji and the Amazon
rainforest are likely contenders in a global poll of millions of people
to select the ...
Worldwide wish list '08
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY, USA
I imagine myself wending through the largest tropical rainforest on
earth (1.28 million square miles), and between sips of my caipirinha,
looking for pink ...
Worldwide wish list '08
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY, USA
... lot easier: a luxury Amazon cruise, something on the
order of what Silversea offers. I imagine myself wending through the
largest tropical rainforest on ...
Jan 6
PERU: Land of extreme contrasts is also place of enchantment
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson,KY, USA
But beyond the mountains, east into the Amazon rainforest, lies yet
another world. As the geography tips from vertical to horizontal, the
fog-shrouded ...
The real cost of good food
Times Online - UK
But it’s meat that matters, not potatoes, when it comes to animal welfare
and global warming and human health, with Amazon rainforests being
cleared for ...
Jan 5
France Used to Be a Jungle
LiveScience.com - New York, NY, USA
... organic compound in amber called “quesnoin,” whose precursor
exists only in sap produced by a tree currently growing only in Brazil’s
Amazon rainforest.
US corn subsidies promote Amazon deforestation
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC, Canada
In Brazil, the world's second-largest soy producer, high soy prices are
having a serious impact on the Amazon rainforest and tropical
savannas.
Jan 4
Photo: Pygmy marmoset twins born at the Bronx Zoo
Mongabay.com - USA
The Pygmy Marmoset (Callithrix pygmaea), native to the Amazon
rainforest is the world's smallest monkey, with its body length
ranging from 14-16 cm and its ...
Leading biofuels may be worse for environment than fossils fuels
Mongabay.com - USA
US corn subsidies drive Amazon destruction. US corn subsidies for
ethanol production are contributing to deforestation of the Amazon
rainforest...
Jan 2
Greg Palast Reports on the Battle Between Indigenous Ecuadorians ...
Democracy Now - New York, NY, USA
But we begin today’s show with this report filed by Greg Palast from the
Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. We’re going to bring you that report
in a minute...
Government should extend the subsidy for trips to Kaieteur into ...
Stabroek News - Georgetown, Guyana
I couldn't believe I was walking in a tropical rainforest - the
much talked about Amazon jungle. The terrain continued to be high
and low at various points.
Jan 1
NMS to hold photo display at library
Noblesville Daily Times - Noblesville, IN, USA
The Noblesville Rainforest Project is in its 12th year of offering
travel to the Amazon rainforest and Inca Trail to students at NMS.
...
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