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Feb 27
Spill-Prone
Amazon Pipeline Constructed with Corroded Piping and Unqualified Welders, Says Independent Report
PR Newswire - New York
WASHINGTON — An independent report into Peru's Camisea project, a major
recipient of IDB funding, has concluded that unqualified welders using
corroded piping shoddily built the spill-prone pipeline. (Related
story: Bank Rejects
Rapid Review of Controversial Pipeline, Substandard
Peruvian Gas Pipeline Blamed for Spills
Feb 25
Amazon's
mysterious black earth
Toronto
Star - Canada
Above
ground, rainforests like the Amazon basin flourish as biological hot
spots with exuberant growth and a riot of plant and animal species.
Shoddy
Work Plagues Major Peru Gas Project
Inter
Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
WASHINGTON
— A controversial gas pipeline in Peru touted by its financial backers
as a global development model is marred by shoddy construction work
that has damaged the region's fragile ecosystems and harmed the local
indigenous people...
Feb 24 Marina
Silva explains sustainable development projects at Peru conference
Agencia Brasil - Brazil
BRASILIA
— Minister of Environment, Marina Silva, who is participating in an
ecological conference (called "ecodialogues") in Iquitos, Peru (1º
Ecodiálogo Amazônico and 6º Ecodiálogo Nacional), addressed the
gathering yesterday on the subject of sustainable development.
Feb 23
Hotter,
Faster, Worser
EV World - Papillion,Nebraska,USA
Columnist John Atcheson explains why there's a sudden sense of panic over the pass of global climate change.
A
new enviornmentalism
Cavalierdaily.com
- Charlottesville,VA,USA
"HEARTLESS capitalists (i.e. lumber companies) are destroying the
rainforests at a rate of 2 football fields an hour." We've all been
told some variation of this statistic since elementary school.
Feb 22
Supermarkets
to sell Fairtrade nuts for the first time
FreshPlaza
- Netherlands
UK shoppers can buy Fairtrade nuts in UK supermarkets for the first time from March...
It's
super juice from the Amazon
Houston
Chronicle - United States
The latest star of the superfoods set: Amazonian açai berries
(pronounced ah-SIGH-ee), small purple fruits from Brazilian palm
trees...
Feb 21
Court:
Hallucinogenic tea OK
Monsters
and Critics.com - Glasgow, UK
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday rejected government
arguments against the use of a hallucinogenic tea in religious
services....
Brazil monkeys sign of intense biological diversity
Sentido.tv - Red Bank
Brazil is home to one-third of the world's monkey species, making the nation one of the richest in primate genetic diversity.
Feb 20
Reproducing
the Amazon's black soil could bolster fertility and ...
innovations report - Bad Homburg,Germany
The
search for El Dorado in the Amazonian rainforest might not have yielded
pots of gold, but it has led to unearthing a different type of gold
mine: some of the globe’s richest soil that can transform poor soil
into highly fertile ground.
Feb 18
Tapping
into the spirit of the forest
Toronto
Star - Canada
IQUITOS — A tropical downpour crashes around our thatch-roofed
pavilion, while Guillermo, a young shaman in a blue feathered
headdress, black T-shirt and cargo pants holds up a vial of dragon's
blood sap.
Making
the Guitar Sing: Vinicius Cantuária Returns to the Dakota
Jazz Police - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Brazilian singer, songwriter, guitarist, and percussionist Vinicius
Cantuária was unknown to most Twin Cities’ jazz fans when he performed
at the Dakota last spring, and now his return is an eagerly anticipated
event.
Feb 17
The
rainforest rap
Daily News
Tribune - Waltham, MA
Fourth-graders at Northeast Elementary School ended a six-week study of
the rain forest yesterday with a special presentation for parents and
siblings.
Feb 15
If Venezuela were
to be attacked there would be many more US casualties
VHeadline.com - Worth, IL
If the United States attacked Venezuela, it would have to counter resistance from more than one million men and women...
Priest
Ambushed
Irish Echo - New York
A popular Irish priest came face to face with gun-toting bandits this week - and lived to tell the tale.
Feb 13
A
boy stands among the crosses erected to commemorate the first ...
Greenpeace UK - UK
On 12 February 2005, Sister Dorothy Strang was assassinated for defending the rights of rural workers in the Amazon.
Chavez
Says Missionary Group Must Leave Venezuela
Free Internet Press - New York
The Venezuelan government has given a Christian missionary group from
the U.S. until next Sunday to leave the country. President Hugo Chavez
has repeatedly called for the expulsion of the New Tribes Mission,
saying they are American imperialists.
Feb 12
Feb 10
Feb 9
Mark Plotkin
Earth & Sky - Austin, TX
Environmentalists
have allowed themselves to be painted into a corner so they're mainly
identified with only one particular political party.
The
tangled politics of energy integration
Economist
- UK
Glance
at our map of natural gas supply and demand in South America, and at
first sight the Great Pipeline of the South promoted by Venezuela's
president, Hugo Chávez, seems to make perfect sense.
Wading into the cultural gulf
VUE Weekly
- Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
Wade
Davis should maybe call himself an anthropologist foremost—but it’s his
botany training that reveals indigenous peoples’ narcotic ingenuity.
Big
oil and the environment
Grist
Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
Any
environmentalists out there who think biofuels cannot follow the same
path as the petrochemical industry are deluding themselves.
Feb 8
Evangelical
missionaries move into Amazon villages
Washington Post - United States
SAO PAULO — It takes days of travel by boat and foot to reach indigenous
tribes deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, but that
hasn't stopped evangelical Christian missionaries...
As
I see it
Corvallis Gazette Times
- Corvallis, OR
I am writing to provide another perspective on the work of Protestant missionaries in the Ecuadorian jungle...
Feb 7
Feb 6
Feb 3
Oil and gas zones
cover one-quarter of the Peruvian Amazon
People & the Planet - London
The
Peruvian Amazon, a region that still holds some of the most pristine
biodiverse rainforests on Earth, is facing an unprecedented wave of new
oil and gas exploration.
Greens
want oil code of conduct
Cay
Compass - Grand Cayman,Cayman Islands
BRUSSELS
— Europe needs a binding code of conduct to force EU oil companies to
respect the environment and human rights in Latin America...
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