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- Women to chart new course through Amazon (Dec 31)
<http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.667362.0>
This is Local London - UK
While most people will be partying until dawn on New Year's Eve, an
intrepid Kingston woman will set off on a pioneering trip... (Related story: Woman set for rainforest mission)
- 2005: The year in environment (Dec 29)
<http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8516>
New Scientist - UK
Natural disaster was a running theme in 2005 - a year marked by more
North Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes since records began, and
a string of massive earthquakes.
- Amazon City: Replanting the Urban Forest (Dec 25)
<http://www.brazilmax.com/news2.cfm/tborigem/pl_citylife/id/1>
BrazilMax.com - Sao Paolo,Brazil
São Luís, Maranhão - To get a bird’s eye view of the park, we have to
compete with the vultures that alight amid plastic sacks in the
makeshift neighborhood dump.
<http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=17610>
Irish Echo - New York,NY,USA
There won't be any snow. You can absolutely forget about Jack Frost. And Santa would only roast in his usual get-up.
- What to do with a million bucks? (Dec 22)
<http://www.bonnersprings.com/section/schools/story/7749>
Bonner Springs Chieftain - KS, USA
To all future Powerball jackpot winners: Bonner Springs Elementary School fifth-grader Randa Mortensen has a little advice.
- One for the list (Dec 19)
<http://www.vogue.co.uk/vogue_daily/story/story.asp?stid=31336>
Vogue.com - UK
Don't miss Monica Carvalho's winter collections while you're on the Christmas shopping trail.
- Belizza Scoopable Açaí now available through Robeks, a major national smoothie chain (Dec 18)
<http://news.ucwe.com/content/view/1182/2/>
UCW Entertainment Newswire - USA
Caffé Classico Foods (www.caffeclassicofoods.com) announced today that
it has inked a deal to sell its Belizza™ Scoopable Açaí to Robeks
(www.robeks.com), one of the nation's fastest growing healthy lifestyle
franchises.
- UD to honor 'angel of Amazon' (Dec 17)
<http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/1217udstang.html>
Dayton Daily News - Dayton, OH
The University of Dayton in February will award its first posthumous
honorary degree to Sister Dorothy Stang, the Dayton nun gunned down in
Brazil while fighting for that country's poor and protecting the Amazon
rain forest.
- World Bank President Praises Brazil's Moves on Economy, Efforts to Ease Poverty (Dec 16)
<http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=129169&src=0>
noticias.info - Spain
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz on Thursday praised Brazil for
putting Latin America's largest country on a path toward slow,
sustainable growth while trying to help tens of millions of people
immersed in misery...
- The nun who died for the Amazon (Dec 15)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4529450.stm>
BBC News - UK
The case of murdered nun and activist Dorothy Stang has brought into
sharp focus the vigilante violence that accompanies the destruction of
Brazil's rainforest.
- Amazon Watch Calls on ConocoPhillips to Reconsider Burlington's Risky Holdings in Ecuador and Peru (Dec 14)
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl>
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
SAN FRANCISCO — ConocoPhillips' acquisition yesterday of the
Houston-based Burlington Resources comes with serious environmental,
political, and financial liabilities...
- Some Amazon rainforest trees are over 1000 years old finds study (Dec 13)
<http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1213-amazon.html>
Mongabay.com - USA
Trees in the Amazon rainforest are older than originally believed
according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
- Consumers Can Now Save Planet, One Tree at a Time (Dec 13)
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?>
PR Newswire - New York,NY,USA
MILWAUKEE — RainforestForever.org, a U.S. based
environmental group, has launched a program that allows consumers to
buy and give living and thriving rainforest trees directly from Amazon
rainforest landowners.
- The WTO: food for thought? (Dec 13)
<http://mondediplo.com/2005/12/10food>
Le Monde Diplomatique - Paris, France
The World Trade Organisation should be setting firm rules in
agriculture - which is more important to poor countries than to rich
ones - to ensure a sustainable future.
- The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers (Dec 12)
<http://www.alternet.org/story/29337/>
AlterNet - San Francisco, CA
Corporations carry out some of the most horrific human rights abuses of
modern times, but it is increasingly difficult to hold them to
account. (Related story: The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers)
- 'Champagne should be enjoyed at every possible moment...Sunday breakfast in bed, before dinner, and to liven up any bubble bath (Dec 11)
<http://www.sundayherald.com/53242>
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland
Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, on the banks of the mighty Tapajós river,
the rare traveller comes across a remarkable sight. Hidden in the
rainforest is a modern "lost city"
- Oil and cancer in Ecuador (Dec 11)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/11/ING6CFBDNL50.DTL>
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Ecuadoran villagers believe high rates of disease are tied to petroleum pollution, a contention that Chevron disputes...
- World Health Body Links Ecosystem Injury to Human Health Problems (Dec 9)
<http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2005/2005-12-09-02.asp>
Environment News Service - USA
GENEVA — Sixty percent of the benefits that the global ecosystem
provides to support life on Earth - fresh water, clean air, abundant
wildlife and a relatively stable climate - are being degraded or used
unsustainably with negative effects on human health...
- China moves into Peruvian rainforest in search of oil (Dec 9)
<http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1208-peru.html>
Mongabay.com - USA
Peru signed an $83 million contract with China National Petroleum
Corporation allowing the Chinese firm to explore for oil in the
country's southeastern rainforests, arguably the most biodiverse place
on earth.
- Two tried for Brazil nun murder (Dec 9)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4513874.stm>
BBC News - UK
One of two men accused over the murder of a US-born nun in Brazil has said he shot her in self-defence... (Related story: Man Claims Self-Defense in Nun's Death, Justice for an Amazon nun, Two Men Convicted in Murder of Dayton Nun)
- Montreal agreement on tropical deforestation (Dec 8)
<http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/world.aspx?ID=BD4A125007>
Business Day - Johannesburg, South Africa
MONTREAL — Rich countries attending the climate change conference in
Montreal agreed this week to find new ways of funding protection of the
world’s rainforests.
- Amazon drought ending, yet sickness looms (Dec 8)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08193820.htm>
Reuters AlertNet - London
BELEM — The Amazon basin's worst drought in more than 40 years is
ending as rainfall returns to normal, though officials fear diseases
will spread as rising rivers stir up muck from stagnant pools of
contaminated water. (Related story: Amazon drought continues, worst on record)
- Brazil Amazon violence continues despite Lula pledge (Dec 7)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06369837.htm>
Reuters AlertNet - London
BRASILIA — When hired killers gunned down an American nun in Brazil's
Amazon in February, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowed to bring
order to the rainforest frontier...
- Amazon deforestation slows in Brazil for 2005 (Dec 6)
<http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1205-amazon.html>
Mongabay.com - USA
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest fell 37% for the 2004-2005 year
according to Brazilian government figures released today. Between July
2004 and August 2005, 7,298 square miles of rainforest (18,900 square
kilometers)—an area almost half the size of Switzerland—were destroyed.
- Embraer shows Brazil's aviation flair (Dec 6)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4464536.stm>
BBC News - UK
Brazilians rarely need opportunities to have their passions stirred up,
but one topic certain to inflame them is the question of who invented
the aeroplane.
- Indigenous Ecuadorians helped by crafts, chocolate (Dec 6)
<http://www.tuftsdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/12/06/43952f875b1f0>
Tufts Daily - Medford, MA
For the past eight years, the Kichwa people of Ecuador have improved
their living conditions through a cooperative that sells locally made
handicrafts and organic cacao.
- Why the Amazon rainforest is so rich in species (Dec 5)
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/ucl-wta120505.php>
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington, DC
Tropical areas of south and central America such as the Amazon
rainforest are home to some 7500 species of butterfly compared with
only around 65 species in Britain.
- Slash-and-Burn Farming (Dec 5)
<http://teenink.com/Past/2005/December/19578.html>
Teen Ink - USA
Although slash-and-burn farming is considered ecologically destructive,
it is still a common practice across the globe. Concern over its use in
the Amazon rainforest is especially high...
- From Baffin Island to New Orleans (Dec 5)
<http://progressive.org/mag_johansen1105>
Progressive.org - Madison,WI,USA
Several yellow jacket wasps were sighted in Arctic Bay, a community of
700 people on the northern tip of Baffin Island at more than 73 degrees
North latitude...
- UN fears impunity in Brazil nun murder case (Dec 5)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05385634.htm>
Reuters AlertNet - London
BRASILIA — A United Nations envoy on Monday said she was concerned
loggers and ranchers suspected of ordering the murder of a U.S. nun in
Brazil's Amazon had not faced justice...
- Fine work rains down on Canton art museum (Dec 4)
<http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/13318692.htm>
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron, OH
Unless you've been to one, you can't comprehend what it's like to be in a real forest.
- Chevron Shareholders Submit Resolution Addressing Ecuadorian Contamination Controversy (Dec 2)
<http://www.csrwire.com/article.cgi/4766.html>
CSRwire.com - USA
For the third year in a row, Chevron Corporation shareholders have submitted a resolution on Texaco’s toxic legacy in Ecuador.
- School ready to break ground on rain forest (Dec 2)
<http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Neighbors/South/03AreaNS03120205.htm>
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona, FL
PORT ORANGE — Children will get a chance to tour a rain forest without venturing into the Amazon.
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