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Breaking news...
May 10
Fergus Nicoll is on his way to the Amazon city of Manaus
BBC News - UK
Who should decide the fate of the Amazon rainforest? The people who
live there? The Brazilian government? The international community?
...
Exclusively for the adventurous
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
... from the shores of Lake Titicaca to the heart of the Amazon
rainforest, ending up on a train journey to the Inca ruins of Machu
Picchu.
(Prudent Press Agency)--
Prudent Press Agency - Den Haag, Netherlands
It is now estimated that almost 20% of the Amazon has been
destroyed, which is considerably alarming when one considers that the
Amazon rainforest ...
Brazil unveils new plan to curb Amazon logging
guardian.co.uk - UK
The lush Amazon rainforest covers 1.6m square miles, an area larger
than western Europe, and most of the rainforest is in Brazil. About
20% of the original ...
Who decides the fate of the Amazon?
BBC News - UK
Is exploiting the rainforest a solution? The Amazon, 65% of
it in one country, Brazil, is now home to millions of people drawn to this
last frontier by the ...
Across The Andes: Beyond Boundaries
Mirror.co.uk - London, UK
This week, as the group arrive in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador,
the enormity of what they're about to do hits them. It's not going
to be easy...
May 9
The story of a young Glasgow woman's life-changing journey in the ...
BBC News - UK
Starting in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, the group attempted to
cross the 300km separating them from the Pacific Ocean, climbing the Andes
Mountains in ...
Amazon adventure for teenagers
ChesterChronicle.co.uk - Chester, England, UK
STUDENTS from Helsby have been picked to take part in a expedition to the
Amazon Rainforest. Joshua Lawson and Charlie Finlow, students from
Helsby High ...
Audio Bible Ministry Reaches Amazon Tribes
Christian News Wire - Washington, DC, USA
MEDIA ADVISORY, May 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- In the Brazilian
rainforest, the small village of Makita sits along the muddy banks
of an Amazon River ...
Lula outraged by acquittal in US nun's murder case
Reuters - USA
But it acquitted cattle rancher Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura of charges he
ordered the murder in a land dispute in the Amazon rainforest in
February 2005.
Amazon Under Threat From Cleaner Air
Science Daily - USA
ScienceDaily (May 7, 2008) — The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to
the Earth's climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say
prominent UK and ...
May 8
Forests: A carbon traders' gold mine?
ClimateChangeCorp.com - London, UK
Brazil has also expressed concerns about the REDD process, which it sees as
an attempt to limit its economic development of the Amazon
rainforest.
Cleaner air threatens Amazon rainforest
Malaysia Sun - Malaysia
Washington, May 8 : Climate scientists from the UK and Brazil have come
with an unusual theory, which suggests that the Amazon rainforest,
so crucial to the ...
Clean air could kill the Amazon
Adelaidenow - Australia
The Amazon - the world's largest tropical rainforest -
plays a critical role in the global climate system because it contains
about one tenth of the total ...
Cleaner Air May Threaten Amazon Rainforest
U.S. News & World Report - Washington, DC, USA
WEDNESDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) -- Cleaner air may actually threaten the
Amazon rainforest, according to Brazilian and British climate
scientists.
Mission to save our green heritage
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
Take a trip to the Belum-Temenggor rainforest in Perak and you can
find out, first hand. The 300000ha forest complex in Hulu Perak is bounded
by the ...
Cleaner Air May Threaten Amazon Rainforest
Washington Post - United States
WEDNESDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) -- Cleaner air may actuallythreatenthe
Amazon rainforest, according to Brazilian and British climate
scientists.
Cleaner air to worsen droughts in Amazon: study
AFP -
... suggests that these needs to be accompanied by urgent reductions
in carbon dioxide emissions to minimise the risk of Amazon forest
dieback," said Cox.
Brazilian Rancher Convicted of Ordering US Nun Killing Acquitted ...
Voice of America - USA
... court has acquitted a local rancher previously convicted of
ordering the 2005 killing of a US nun who had campaigned to save the
Amazon rainforest.
Clean air could kill the Amazon, researchers say
Reuters India - Mumbai, India
The Amazon -- the world's largest tropical rainforest --
plays a critical role in the global climate system because it contains
about one tenth of the total ...
Amazon doomed by too much clean air
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The Amazon rainforest contains about one tenth of the total carbon
stored in land ecosystems and recycles a large fraction of the rainfall
that falls upon ...
May 7
Brazilian rancher acquitted of nun's murder
Radio Netherlands - Netherlands
... violent struggle for land in the Amazon region. Ms Stang
campaigned on the half of small farmers and worked to stop the destruction
of the rainforest.
Rancher freed over US nun killing
BBC News - UK
Sister Dorothy campaigned for poor farmers' rights in Brazil, and to
preserve the rainforest from loggers and developers. Her murder
followed a dispute with ...
Second jury acquits rancher in nun's death
Denver Post - Denver, CO, USA
... rancher in the Amazon walked free today after a new jury
acquitted him of plotting the murder of 73-year-old Catholic nun Dorothy
Stang,a rainforest ...
Brazil acquits rancher in US nun killing
Rock Hill Herald - Rock Hill, SC, USA
... convicted Rayfran Neves das Sales, who had confessed to firing
six, close-range shots at Stang on a muddy road deep in the Amazon
rainforest in 2005.
New York's Bloomberg Joins Sting's Police for Trees (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
In 1993, the foundation won legal recognition for more than 37000 square
miles inhabited by the Kayapo Indians in the Amazon rainforest.
...
Bulls running in a hungry world
The Australian - Sydney, Australia
... bourses have come into favour, with Brazil seen as a country
with expanding arable land, once one overlooks the destruction of the
Amazon rainforest.
Try a shot of Mona Vie
Danbury News Times - Danbury, CT, USA
The acai comes from the Amazon rainforest and is touted as a
nutritional powerhouse. "People in South America and the Amazon
eat it everyday," said Daryl ...
May 6
Biofool's Cornhole
Westcoaster - Port Alberni, BC, Canada
The cattle must now find elsewhere to graze, and more of the Amazon
rainforest is converted to pastures. Although corn plants will
sequester some of the CO2 ...
Climate prediction: No model for success
BBC News - UK
The ball is the Sun, heating the surface as it passes and provoking a daily
puff of cloud from the Amazon rainforest in this computer-generated
climate ...
RARE2B Organic, Vegan Skin Care Line Selected to Help Raise Funds ...
Market Wire - USA
"We use the highest quality natural and organic ingredients from
sustainable fair trade sources in the Amazon Rainforest and the
South Australian Rainforest ...
Peru: perfection here is found in nature's natural wonders
Kiwi Collection - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica jungle lodge is on the shores of the Madre de
Dios River (Tambopata) in Peru's southern Amazon rainforest basin.
...
Guyana seeks help to combat illegal logging
Houston Chronicle - United States
... down tracts of Guyana's Amazon forest. Persaud said
Monday that Georgetown will send a formal request later this month. Dense
rainforest covers about 75 ...
May 4
Ryan Campfield: Lab-grown meat only answer to meat-eating addiction
The Capital Times - Madison, WI, USA
Ms. Seiler's method was to jump on the issue of "soy grown and
imported from cleared Amazon rainforest," even though this
hurts her argument: That soy ...
Peruvian indigenous protest at Oxy Petroleum
World War 4 Report - Brooklyn, NY, USA
Leaders of the indigenous Achuar people of Peru accompanied by 40
demonstrators wearing hazmat suits today brought Occidental Petroleum's
Amazon disaster to ...
Students celebrate rainforests
News Journal - Longview, TX, USA
The students were celebrating Rainforest Day, which culminated with
a ladybug release. Teachers shook the insects gently into students'
hands, then watched ...
May 2
Jigsaw Health's "Heal Your Body, Heal the Planet" Tree Planting ...
Market Wire - USA
An estimated 1.2 million hectares of Brazilian Amazon rainforest
have been destroyed by illegal soya bean farming. And throughout Honduras,
Panama, Belize...
Sting Still Rocks for Rain Forest, Sings to Raise $2 Million
Bloomberg - USA
The goal is to raise more than $2 million for the Rainforest
Foundation, the charity he started with his actress wife, Trudie Styler.
...
MPs criticise Government on biofuels policy
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Conservation groups say vitally important stretches of rainforest in
Indonesia and the Amazon are being cleared to make way for
profitable biofuel crops ...
'Clean Up Operation' Launched at Occidental Petroleum Headquarters ...
PR Newswire - New York, NY, USA
Amazon Watch Executive Director Atossa Soltani. "Oxy knowingly
poisoned the rainforest homeland of the Achuar people and has
refused to clean up its toxic ...
Eye in the Sky Tracks Earth's Changes [Slideshow]
Scientific American - USA
... to determine the impact of drought on the Amazon
rainforest, and to generally assess the global impacts of human
activity on Earth's ecosystems.
Marriott goes green
Car Rentals - Lightwater, England, UK
... recently entered into an agreeement with Amazonas, one of
Brazil's constituent states, in order to assist in the protection of the
Amazon rainforest.
Uni graduate lives with Amazon tribes
Reading Evening Post - Reading, England, UK
... Gray A University of Reading graduate with a passion for exotic
plants has made a ground-breaking film with the remote tribes of the
Amazon rainforest.
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