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Apr 29
Seven-day activists
Chicago Maroon - Chicago, IL, USA
Much like the previous 977 weeks, it was characterized by the beleaguered
existence of the Amazon Rainforest, ice in Antarctica, and 1196
species of geckos; ...
Brazil considers a permit to visit the Amazon
Hostelbookers.com - USA
Tourists could be required to apply for a permit before they are allowed
into the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, it has been revealed.
...
Bring on the right biofuel crops
The Canberra Times - Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
They're behind soaring global commodity prices, the destruction of the
Amazon rainforest, increased rather than diminished greenhouse
gases, food riots in ...
DEVELOPMENT-BRAZIL: Activists Opposed to Rebuilding Amazon Highways
IPS - Italy
The perils of climate change also fuel strong international pressure for
the conservation of the Amazon rainforest. The BR-319 passes through
885 kilometres ...
Food crisis resolved!
Grist Magazine - Seattle, WA, USA
He owns a company called Grupo Andre Maggi that runs vast soybean
plantations in the state of Matto Grasso, which straddles the Amazon
rainforest and what ...
Isolated Indians targeted by rebels and army
Survival International - London, UK
One hundred and thirty Nukak Indians, some of the last nomadic Indians in
the Amazon, have fled their rainforest homes after becoming
caught up in ...
Center connects people, outdoors
BlueRidgeNow.com - Hendersonville, NC, USA
While they may be more aware of threats to the environment and read more
about places like the Amazon rainforest than previous generations of
students...
Permit needed for a trip to Amazon
Times of India - India
Those caught in the Amazon without a permit granted by military and
justice authorities could face a fine of $60000. The government plans to
send Congress a ...
Amazon could be forbidden to most foreigners
Independent - London, England, UK
... politicians and the military that foreign NGOs working to help
Indians and save the rainforest are trying to wrest the
Amazon's riches away from Brazil.
Discovery Initiatives Announces New Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest Trip
PR.com - Levittown, NY, USA
Through daily rainforest treks in the forest travellers will learn
about its many wonders and from visiting the local Huaorani communities
travellers will ...
Apr 25
New controls for international NGOs in
Outside Online - San Francisco, CA, USA
International NGOs and other foreign organizations in Brazil's
Amazon rainforest will soon be controlled by the Brazilian military.
...
Brazilian President Says Food Crisis Is "temporary"
RTT News - Williamsville, NY, USA
Lula disputed claims that Brazil is destroying parts of the Amazon
rainforest to produce more sugar cane. He said this is an ill-willed
campaign aimed at ...
MONKEY-NAPPING
Globe and Mail - Canada
Ms. Collrin said there are only about 1000 callimicos, which are indigenous
to the upper Amazon rainforest. If April isn't returned before
her mother bears ...
Brazil to rein in foreign groups in Amazon
Reuters - USA
... religious and other foreign groups working in the Amazon
region under a law being drafted to assert sovereignty over the often
lawless rainforest...
BP buys into Brazilian ethanol venture
Times Online - UK
He said the area farmed would be pasture land and would not affect the
Amazon rainforest. "It is 600 miles from the edge of the
rainforest," he said.
Immune System Health Is So Important
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills, CA, USA
With the physical characteristics of a grape, the acai fruit comes from the
Amazon rainforest and is rumored to be very nutritious.
Biofuels are not the way to go
Daily - University of Washington - Seattle, WA, USA
... States that has already been converted for ethanol; soy
biodiesel that is grown in the Amazon rainforest will take 320 years
to make up its energy debt.
Apr 24
Why Sting and I Set Up The Rainforest Foundation Fund
Huffington Post - New York, NY, USA
In the Kayap=F3 region of the Amazon, Sting and I met an
extraordinary man called Chief Raoni, a revered and respected leader of the
Kayap=F3 Indians who had ...
It's a small world music, after all
AOL Music Canada - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Three types of activities are featured in the learning guide — music and
movement, a learning component about the Amazon rainforest and a
segment about call ...
Amazon comes to life for kids at 'rainforest' in lower Manhattan
New York Daily News - New York, NY, USA
Among the visitors enjoying new Amazon
rainforest exhibit at South Street Seaport in Manhattan Tuesday were...
Peru fails to investigate murder of Amazon environmental leader
Mongabay.com - USA
... at the hands of an illegal logger set off international outcry
and highlighted rising tensions over the paving of a highway in the
Amazon rainforest.
Why More Food Is Not the Answer
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
Satellite photos show the relentless push of soybean monocultures and
cattle grazing into the Amazon rainforest. Forest ecologist Daniel
Nepstad of the ...
Apr 22
etnies 2008 SEED Project Returns To Raise Awareness And Promote ...
Surfline.com Surf News - Huntington Beach, CA, USA
... etnies SEED Project collection will be donated to Sambazon's
Sustainable Acai Project, which helps promote the preservation of the
Amazon Rainforest.
What you do to help save rainforests
Mongabay.com - USA
In some cases your impact on rainforests may be more direct -- many wood
and paper products are derived from rainforest trees.
Amazon Jungle Arrives in NYC: Earth Day 2008!
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
To many around the world, the Amazon already is a model of
sustainable living. Exhibit-goers will learn about the history and
biodiversity of the rainforest ...
Hollywood eagerly embraces environmental cause
Reuters Canada - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"People used climbing equipment to rappel up the side of the ship and
unfurled a huge banner that said, 'Rainforest Wood Out of
Hollywood.
(BPRW) Earth Month Encourages Eco Awareness
Black PR Wire - North Miami Beach, FL, USA
The Amazon rainforest has been described as the lungs of our planet,
producing more clean, pristine, breathable oxygen than anywhere else on
earth.
Apr 19
John Hemming: the rainforest man
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
To live in the Amazon you have to hunt, fish and gather -- there
aren't really any animals you can domesticate in the rainforest.
The Incas had guinea pigs ...
South America's Most Dangerous Border
TIME - USA
Wisps of evaporating water rise from the dark green Amazon
rainforest as an Ecuadorian military helicopter swerves along the San
Miguel River.
Sheffield photographer captures disappearing tribal life: GALLERY
The Star - Sheffield, England, UK
Grenville is not letting his condition get in the way of future travels -
he is now planning a trip to the Amazon rainforest.
All this embellishing of my personality swiftly ended when a snake
Brazzil.com - Los Angeles, CA, USA
While the G7 countries have put millions of pounds into Brazil to protect
indigenous lands in the Amazon rainforest, inside Brazil a powerful
lobby of ...
Tumucumaque Park is 568000 acres larger than Slonga
Brazzil.com - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Deforestation has destroyed about 15 percent of Brazil's Amazon
rainforest, which today covers about 1.35 million square miles.
"This park today looks much ...
"Part of our job is trying to educate people in Brazil about
Brazzil.com - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Tucuri displaced 40000 people; Balbina near Manaus flooded 2400 square
kilometers of Amazon rainforest to produce a mere 250 megawatts...
We need a lot of Brazilian joy." Vinito
Brazzil.com - Los Angeles, CA, USA
You can imagine the sounds of the Amazon rainforest: the buzzing of
bees, screeching monkeys, the sounds of birds of paradise before the rain
on other ...
The FSC is the 'Enron of forestry'
Mongabay.com - USA
The interview drew strong reactions on both sides, and Simon Counsell,
director of the Rainforest Foundation UK, requested a chance to
respond to the FSC's ...
Earth Day Food for Thought
Gather.com - Boston, MA, USA
Approximately 2.9 million acres of Amazon rainforest were destroyed
in the 2004-2005 crop season to grow food for farmed animals; in the US,
more than 260 ...
Apr 18
Weekend edition: Food prices, Earth Day; Plus reader comments ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
It's quite likely that the Amazon rainforest will, by 2100 be
largely savannah in a 1000 PPM scenario. Boiodiversity will have crashed.
...
Vinicius Cantuaria - rhythm of the rainforest
Independent - London, England, UK
Cantuaria grew up in the Fifties in Manaus, a city in the Amazon
rainforest. "You fly for more than an hour before you reach it.
It's not possible to drive ...
Amazon explorer
Easier - Chester, UK
New from Ramblers Worldwide Holidays is 'Amazon Explorer' - a
two week, half board Amazon Rainforest adventure in the most diverse
and abundant eco-system ...
Behind the Red Door
Reason Online - Los Angeles, CA, USA
I am deep in the Amazon rainforest, anxiously losing my mind as the
world begins to disintegrate. Around me, all sense of distance is wrapping
itself up ...
Marriott 1Q profit falls 34 pct with business slowing
Houston Chronicle - United States
Last week, the company pledged $2 million to Amazon rainforest
protection and announced plans to allow guests to pay to offset the
emissions generated by ...
Apr 17
Amazon Watch Blasts Consultant Sam Singer for Designing Chevron ...
FOXBusiness - USA
... leading a landmark environmental lawsuit in Ecuador to force
Chevron to clean up 18 billion gallons of toxic waste it dumped in the
Amazon rainforest.
GOING, GOING, GONE? New Satellite Images Reveal a Shrinking Amazon ...
Worldwatch Institute - Washington, DC, USA
... Brazilian officials, writes Tim Hirsch, author of "The
Incredible Shrinking Amazon Rainforest" in the May/June 2008
issue of World Watch magazine.
04.16 WORLD FACING HUGE NEW CHALLENGE ON FOOD FRONT
The Baltimore Chronicle - Baltimore, MD, USA
... in the Amazon and Congo basins and in Indonesia, or from
clearing land in the Brazilian cerrado, a savannah-like region south of the
Amazon rainforest.
'Chevron owes nothing' - company responds to court call for $16.5 ...
Environmental Data Interactive - UK
... Chevron subsidiary Texaco stands accused of releasing billions
of gallons of toxic wastewater into an area of Amazon rainforest
between 1964 and 1990.
Apr 16
Google's new venture to help world charities
Times Now.tv - Mumbai, Maharashtra,India
Some global crises include the deforestation of the Amazon
rainforest, the future climate predictions for European cities, and the
life- threatening water ...
Turkey Run teachers head to Amazon
Journal Review - Crawfordsville,IN, USA
The pair will head to Peru this summer to study the Amazon
Rainforest. The teachers received a Teacher Creativity Fellowship grant
from the Lilly Foundation ...
Chevron spinning out
San Francisco Bay Guardian - San Francisco, CA, USA
... Chron and penning a guest editorial claiming they’re not to
blame for 18 billion gallons of toxic waste dumped in unlined pits in the
Amazon rainforest.
This tax day, take control of your money (what's left of it anyway)
DollyMix - London, UK
If you can afford it, you shouldn't feel guilty about treating yourself
to new shoes or power tools or a vacation in the Amazon rainforest.
...
Eco-friendly retreats from just $110 per night
MSNBC - USA
To experience untouched wilderness down in the Southern Hemisphere,
there’s no place more incredible than the Amazon rainforest.
...
Press Briefing Wednesday 10:00 am About $16 Billion Damages Claim ...
Earthtimes - London, UK
... claim in history -- up to $16 billion for dumping 18 billion
gallons of toxic wastewater into an inhabited area of the Amazon
rainforest in Ecuador.
Ecotourism in Peru in the Amazon Basin
About - News & Issues - New York, NY, USA
Rumble in the jungle- How barefaced capitalism can help save the Amazonian
rainforest (economist.com): "Peru's Madre de Dios region
has been undergoing an ...
Apr 14
4REAL is a voyage of discovery
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec, Canada
... to the heart of the Amazon rainforest or Somali-born
Canadian hip hop artist K'naan visiting a medical clinic in the
Nairobi, Kenya township of Kibera.
Do not plant your seed in the soil of freedom…
East African - Nairobi,Kenya
Amazon is my sheath, whom shall I fear? BRAZIL HAS struck on a novel
way to help save the Amazon rainforest — turn it into condoms.
...
Apr 13
TV Review Return to the Amazon: Ocean Adventures
Blogcritics.org - Aurora, OH, USA
A full 50% of the planet’s annual rainfall evaporates or originates from
the Amazon rainforest to the atmosphere. Unbridled deforestation
will result in ...
Amazon tribe enlists Google in battle with illegal loggers
Independent - London, England, UK
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor You may know it as Google, but in
bamboo-and-thatch roundhouses deep in the Amazon rainforest the
iconic brand goes by ...
The Story of the Amazon by John Hemming
Times Online - UK
... to the D-9 bulldozers of today chewing up the rainforest
for soya bean plantations. With a shelf full of distinguished books and
papers on the Amazon...
Apr 13
TV Review Return to the Amazon: Ocean Adventures
Blogcritics.org - Aurora, OH, USA
A full 50% of the planet’s annual rainfall evaporates or originates from
the Amazon rainforest to the atmosphere. Unbridled deforestation
will result in ...
Amazon tribe enlists Google in battle with illegal loggers
Independent - London, England, UK
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor You may know it as Google, but in
bamboo-and-thatch roundhouses deep in the Amazon rainforest the
iconic brand goes by ...
The Story of the Amazon by John Hemming
Times Online - UK
... to the D-9 bulldozers of today chewing up the rainforest
for soya bean plantations. With a shelf full of distinguished books and
papers on the Amazon...
Apr 12
Getting to know Peru and her people
Anniston Star (subscription) - Anniston, AL, USA
After breakfast, we took the flat-bottom skiff up a tributary for a walk
through the rainforest. Walking on a narrow trail, we learned about
the local ...
Condoms to save trees
HT Tabloid - New Delhi,India
The factory in the Amazon state of Acre would allow local rubber
tappers to profit from the rainforest without destroying it,
officials said. ...
Once they were heroes, now Brazil's rainforest farmers are villains
Times Online - UK
The ruling generals feared that if they continued to neglect the
Amazon region, outside powers might colonise it – so they were
eager to see Mr Gamba and ...
It’sa jungle in there
Shelby Township Source Newspapers - Shelby Township, MI, USA
“Then they learned all about the Amazon Rainforest and decided
they wanted to make one of their own.” For several weeks during their
hour-long TAG sessions...
GOOGLE TO SAVE PLANET
Mirror.co.uk - London, UK
Sir David added: "Google can take us to the Amazon rainforest
and you can see on your screen where it is being destroyed. "Now we
don't have to rely on the ...
Brazil builds =A310m condom factory to help save rainforest
Guardian - UK
The factory, in the Amazon state of Acre, would allow local rubber
tappers to profit from the rainforest without destroying it,
officials said. ...
Apr 11
Brazil's condom program good idea
TCU Daily Skiff - Fort Worth, TX, USA
According to an article from the BBC Web site, Brazil is making condoms
from rubber trees in the Amazon rainforest. Health officials said
this will aid in ...
American Botanical Council Announces Peruvian Amazon and Andes ...
Earthtimes - London, UK
This year's trip will take place September 26th - October 5th, 2008 in
various locations in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest and the Andes
mountains...
Brazil producing condoms from the rainforest
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... up with a novel way of fighting the Aids epidemic that has
gripped the country - using rubber from trees in the Amazon
rainforest to produce condoms. ...
The story of the Amazon
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Yet it is clear that pre-Columbian man had successfully managed to convert
the shallow topsoil of the rainforest into rich black earth by a
process that is ...
Ecotourism in Peru Rumble in the jungle
Economist - UK
First, the region comprises vast areas of pristine rainforest,
including some of the most biodiverse places on earth, much of it protected
(at least on ...
Today's Picks
The Herald - Glasgow, Scotland, UK
In the heart of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, blameless people
are paying a cruel price for the world's financial crises. As the price
of gold rises to ...
Brazilian condoms to save rainforest
Plastics & Rubber Weekly - Croydon, UK
Mendes – also known as Francisco Alves Mendes Filho - drew worldwide
attention to the destruction of the Amazon rain forest and was shot
dead by cattle ...
Canopy Capital argue markets and Governments must play a role in ...
CNN - USA
It is one of the four remaining rainforest regions of the world. But
historically, no one has attempted to put a market value on nature's
eco-systems and ...
Zenses Ocean and Zenses Rainforest Announced for Nintendo DS
Modojo - San Francisco, CA, USA
Zenses Rainforest will pit you in the middle of the Amazon
with minigames inspired by exotic flowers, waterfalls and giant trees.
...
Apr 10
= Environmental Groups Say Agribusiness Expanding In Amazon
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles, CA, USA
However, the environment ministry recently said that as much as 7000 square
kilometers of Brazil's rainforest was cleared from August
through December...
Coffee for the birds
Plenty Magazine - New York, NY, USA
... destroying 7500 square miles of rainforest a year.
Preserving tropical canopies is crucial, not just for the birds, but for
our own sakes, as the Amazon ...
Rainforest emissions don't harm clean skies
Chemistry World - London, UK
Jos Lelieveld and colleagues measured atmospheric trace gases from an
aircraft over the Amazon rainforest in South America, and found
unexpectedly high ...
Apr 9
Amazon Beauty(TM) Launches Natural & Organic Hair Products
Earthtimes - London, UK
Made with rain forest grown symbiotic(TM) ingredients, this luxurious
organic collection pays tribute and respect to the women of the Amazon
Rainforest. ...
Amazon Soy Moratorium: So Far, So Good
E/The Environmental Magazine - Norwalk, CT, USA
By Roddy Scheer A two-year moratorium on the purchase of soybeans in newly
deforested parts of the Amazon rainforest put in place by
Greenpeace...
Ecuador’s Oil Change: An Exporter’s Historic Proposal
Upside Down World - Hartwick, NY, USA
The ITT oil bloc lies beneath the Amazon basin’s most biodiverse
area of rainforest, the Yasun=ED National Park. Dubbed the “cradle
of the Amazon,” the park ...
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Castro Valley Forum - CA, USA
... across the continents, to the point that even
"timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can
be seen as products of human intervention.
Brazil opens condom factory to help preserve the Amazon rain forest
International Herald Tribune - France
The reserves is named after renowned rubber tapper Chico Mendes who drew
international attention to Amazon rain forest destruction.
...
Don't chop down that tree!
CNNMoney.com - USA
... rainforests bigger than Texas, have come up with a
creative, if unorthodox, answer: Marriott will pay villagers in an
endangered corner of the Amazon ...
Amazon alliance to help forest communities
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The initiative was announced at a conference in Manaus in the heart of the
Brazilian Amazon, as new satellite data showed no apparent respite
in rainforest ...
Brazil makes 'rainforest' condoms
BBC News - UK
... Amazon residents, but it will involve using a product
which is widely available and can be obtained without destroying large
areas of the rainforest. ...
Fires main threat to Amazon in drier climate-study
Reuters AlertNet - London, England, UK
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, April 7 (Reuters) - Fires
set by people will be the biggest threat to the Amazon rainforest in
coming ...
Brazil supports soy expansion in spite of budding controversy
MercoPress - Montevideo, Uruguay
Scientists developed seeds which adapted to sub tropical and tropical
climates as well as to soils next to the Amazon rainforest such as
happens in the ...
Apr 7
Vegetarian for the right reasons
Quad (subscription) - West Chester,PA, USA
They claim that "more than 90 percent of all Amazon rainforest
land cleared since 1970 is used for meat production." This is
problematic because it brings ...
Santo Diame: the drug-fuelled religion
Times Online - UK
Here's a report from the faith's heartland in the
rainforests of the Amazon I am deep in the Amazon
rainforest, anxiously losing my mind as the world begins ...
Brazil says condoms to stem Amazon losses, AIDS
Reuters UK - UK
... in the Amazon, a move it said would help preserve the
world's largest rainforest and cut dependence on imported
contraceptives given away to fight AIDS. ...
Head Rewards Skiers with Rainforest Plots
Ski Presse - Montreal,QC, Canada
London (Ski Press)-Tropical rainforests are the lungs of the Earth.
Protecting them from deforestation not only saves the ecosystem of the
region...
Rainforest peoples form alliance to demand payments for forest ...
Mongabay.com - USA
Meeting in Manaus, Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest,
representatives of forest communities from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica,
...
Amazing Amazon adventure
Northumberland Gazette - UK
A YOUNG explorer is set to swap Alnwick district for the Amazon,
when he travels to the Peruvian rainforest on a conservation
expedition this summer. ...
/CORRECTION -- Amazon Defense Coalition/
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles, CA, USA
o Ecuador Rainforest Case by Amazon Defense Coalition, issued
earlier today by Amazon Defense Coalition over PR Newswire, the
headline should read "Chevron ...
Fires main threat to Amazon in drier climate: study
Reuters UK - UK
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Fires set by
people will be the biggest threat to the Amazon rainforest in coming
decades ...
Apr 6
From maid to minister
Aljazeera.net - Qatar
Shortly after meeting Mendes, Silva decided to dedicate her life to saving
the Amazon rainforest. She became the youngest woman ever elected to
the ...
The Amazon: A Cousteau Family Adventure
WIBW - Topeka, KS, USA
During the 10-month expedition for the new special, the Cousteaus and their
team explored the 4000-mile river and surrounding rainforest, both
underwater ...
Apr 5
Wineke: Didn't we know this would happen?
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
In the meantime, Time magazine reports this week that the Amazon
rain forest is being destroyed at an ever-faster rate, in part because the
American corn ...
Botanist from Broadmoor shares what he learned in the Amazon
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - New Orleans,LA,USA
And ultimately he set up a foundation for the preservation of the Amazon
rainforest culture. Every year for the 30 years, Plotkin has visited
Suriname...
Trip to Brazil and Peru an eye-opening glimpse at life both rich ...
Anniston Star (subscription) - Anniston,AL,USA
We had our eyes opened to life as it is for those from the mountains and
the rainforest the next day. These people come to Lima for a
"better life," but ...
New exhibits unveiled at SEA LIFE Centres
Group Travel Organiser - Hastings,England,UK
Meanwhile, at the National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham, ‘Amazon
Attack’ features dangerous creatures from the Amazon river and
rainforest including ...
Apr 4
Malthus' Theories Revisited As Global Grain Prices Rise
CattleNetwork.com - Overland Park,KS,USA
"Pressures to increase deforestation to up crop output will increase,
with the Amazon Rainforest under particular threat," said the
Earth Policy Institute's ...
Book Review: The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist
CityWire.co.uk - London,England,UK
... the Rift valley in Ethiopia, Mayan villages in Guatemala, and
the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, as well as affluent countries such
Sweden, France...
Apr 3
Chevron Accused of Lying to Shareholders Over $16 Billion Damages ...
Earthtimes - London,UK
... human rights catastrophe in the Amazon rainforest by
dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste, said representatives of the
Amazon Defense Coalition...
Co-operative Bank’s ethical card has lowest rates
Banking Times - UK
Firstly, it supports the protection of the Amazon rainforest, and
secondly it offers a lower rate (7%) for selected partners deemed to be
more ethically ...
Win a luxury 10-night holiday to Peru with Excedo and KLM
Times Online - UK
South America is home to some of the most spectacular and diverse natural
wonders on Earth: the vast Amazon River, the largest tropical
rainforest in the ...
Big Amazon Fish takes adventurers to Brazil
Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
They take clients on fishing trips and eco tours on the Amazon River
in Esteves's home country. "Our guests experience the
rainforest jungle...
Land invasions undermine Amazon forest law
Mongabay.com - USA
Land invasions are undermining a Brazilian law that requires ranchers to
keep 80 percent of their land forested, according to reports from the
Amazon state ...
The great carbon con: Can offsetting really help to save the planet?
Independent - London,England,UK
... Brown on deforestation and green energy, provoked the ire of the
Brazilian government with his purchase, in 2006, of 400000 acres of
Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon: A Cousteau Family Adventure
TheShowBuzz - New York,NY,USA
"We've managed to cut down 20 percent of the Amazon rain
forest," said Fabien. "And that's within a quarter century.
We're talking about a pace of about 1 ...
Expert: Chevron should pay $7B to $16B for Amazon pollution
USA Today - USA
Chevron Corp. should pay at least $7 billion and as much as $16.3 billion
for polluting the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, a court-appointed
expert has ...
Apr 2
Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com
Mongabay.com - USA
I've been reading my entire adult life about the destruction of the
Amazon rainforest, yet it's still happening. What's the
problem? Frankly, lack of money.
Chevron Gets Adverse Legal Opinion
Briefing.com - Burlingame,CA,USA
... environmental contamination caused to Ecuador's Amazon
rainforest during a 26-year period when the oil giant operated a large
concession in the country.
Court Expert Smacks Chevron With Up to $16 Billion in Damages for ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
(NYSE: CVX) pay a minimum of $7 billion and up to $16 billion to compensate
for environmental contamination caused to Ecuador's Amazon
rainforest during a ...
EcoHip taken over by Green CO2
AboutProperty.co.uk - London,UK
Working with Ecotribal, EcoHip is helping to pay for trees to be planted in
the Amazon rainforest by donating money for the planting of one tree
from the ...
Fuel or folly? Ethanol and the law of unintended consequences
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... and encroachments upon the Amazon rainforest due to
Brazilian sugar cane production — all these developments indicate that
biofuels are turning out to ...
SEEING IS BELIEVING?
NewsWithViews.com - Merlin,OR,USA
... showing a flock of them flapping thousands of miles across the
frigid Antarctic to the Amazon rainforest, you know all too well
what it’s like to be ...
Apr 1
4/17: San Francisco Premier of Documentary JUSTICIA NOW
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
by Mar tin O'Brien ‘Justicia Now’ is a documentary about
ChevronTexaco's toxic legacy in the Northern Ecuadorian region of the
Amazon rainforest - and a ...
Did our April Fools penguin story get you in a flap?
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
... a BBC1 nature documentary called Miracles of Evolution was to
feature amazing footage of penguins flying and even heading off to the
Amazon rainforest.
Mercury Research Bears Fruit in the Amazon
CRDI - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
As new settlers streamed into the region, the rainforest was being
cleared for pasture and farmland at a rapid rate. Tropical downpours washed
topsoil from ...
COUSTEAU FAMILY RETURN TO THE AMAZON, TO AIR ON PBS: 31/03/2008 ...
MaximsNews Network - 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...
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