Jun 30

Brazilian court frees suspect in US nun's murder
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... Stang worked in sustainable development projects in Para, the second largest state of the Amazon rainforest region, and supported a group of more than 1,000 ...
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Jun 29

Court frees Stang murder suspect
BBC News - UK
... The 73-year-old from Dayton, Ohio, was found on a muddy track in the rainforest, shot six times, in ... "My sister loved Brazil, she loved the Amazon, she loved ...

Brazil: Taking Flight on Florencia's Fragile Wings Part 2
Gringoes.com - Sao Paulo,Brazil
... A dashing free-spirit of the rainforest region as well, Riolobo (or "River-Wolf") is also the grand ... He is no match, however, for the mythical Amazon itself.

Legal immigrants' paths vary to lawful residency
The Republic.com (subscription) - Columbus,IN,USA
... Ecuador and Guatemala. Before Patricio Escobar came to the United States, he was working in the Amazon rainforest In his home country ...

Unmasking the Flaw in Sustainability Thinking
The Heartland Institute - Chicago,IL,USA
... But working independently in the 1980s and 1990s, studying from airplane flights and satellite photos, they found 90 percent of the Amazon rainforest was intact ...

Jun 28

The word: Ibidos
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
... Situated between Manaus at the heart of the Amazon rainforest and the seaport city of Belem, Ibidos is small and sleepy today, but in the late 18th and early ...

Jungle Fever
Washington Post - United States
... who live in the coastal cities inherited their fear of the Amazon from the Incas ... Its teeming, vivacious prose mirrors the exuberance of the tropical rainforest.

'Untouched' tribes under threat from loggers
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... near the border with Brazil and Bolivia, this rainforest area is home to four tribes. "There are two types [of isolated tribes]," the Amazon Alliance's...
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Simons: Latest flavor rage? It's the berries: goji, acai
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
Acai berries are a recent Amazon rainforest discovery, and goji berries, which come from Tibet, have been used for thousands of years by Himalayan healers...

Brazilian 'tropical Stonehenge' gives clues to indigenous culture
Montreal Gazette (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... a grassy Amazon hilltop might be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory - a find archeologists said indicates early rainforest inhabitants...

Jun 27

Will Amazon's Stonehenge rewrite history?
Aljazeera.net - Qatar
...to be a pre-colonial astrological observatory in the rainforest near French Guiana, throws new light on the ancient peoples of the Amazon, illuminating a far ...

Tropical Stonehenge may have been found
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... But the discovery of a physical structure that appears to incorporate this knowledge suggests pre-Colombian Indians in the Amazon rainforest may have been more ...

Jun 26

Mahogany imports 'are wiping out Peru tribes'
Independent - London,England,UK
... Situated near the border with Brazil and Bolivia, this rainforest area is home to ... Peter Kostishack, co-director of the non-profit group, Amazon Alliance, said.

IIRSA: Integration Custom-Made for International Markets
Upside Down World - Hartwick,NY,USA
... integration, and therefore, to improving the flow of merchandise, are the "formidable natural barriers like the Andes Mountains, the Amazon rainforest...

Jun 25

MediaSyndicate --- Free Press Release, PR, IR, News Post & Media ...
MediaSyndicate (press release) - USA
... The Aacai berry, or Aacai Fruit (ah-sigh-ee) grows on majestic palm trees in the Amazon rainforest and looks like a purple marble or grape.

Barricaded Johnson Creek trail finally finding some relief
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... The latest ingredient to pop up in health foods lately is acai, a fruit that has grown wild for centuries in the Amazon rainforest ...

Cameroon, France Sign Central Africa's First Debt-for-Nature Swap
Environment News Service - USA
... aims to conserve some of the most pristine and threatened rainforest in Africa ... Congo River Basin, the world's second largest tropical forest after the Amazon. ...
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Texas & Neighbors notes
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... The Amazon exhibit includes headdresses, masks, breastplates, costumes and other items made by tribes that are indigenous to the rainforest region.

Jun 22

IIRSA: Integration Custom-Made for International Markets
Global Politician - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... and therefore, to improving the flow of merchandise, are the formidable natural barriers like the Andes Mountains, the Amazon Rainforest, and the Orinoco ...

Brazil creates three new protected areas in Amazon rainforest
PlanetSave.com - Portland,ME,USA
... office in 2002 Silva has created 57 protected areas in the Amazon preserving some 19.3 million hectares (47.6 million acres) of rainforest, the environment ...

New catfish may have fishing lure
Practical Fishkeeping - Bretton,Peterborough,UK
... The Tetranematichthys species found elsewhere in the Amazon basin and central Orinoco is ... igarapes in Brazil) within the flooded parts of the rainforest, and in ...

Jun 21

Bolivia - Land of Beauty
FemaleFirst.co.uk - Ashton-in-Makerfield,Wigan,UK
... Be sure to head into the rainforest in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin. While the Brazilian Amazon is better known, the Bolivian ...

Brazil: Taking Flight on Florencia's Fragile Wings Part 1
Gringoes.com - Sao Paulo,Brazil
... nineteenth-century version of northern Brazil, for a trip down the Amazon River; to the ... or "Muse") her lover was looking for all those years in the rainforest. ...

On the First Day of Summer, Prominent Americans Share Their ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Larry McMurty's new Telegraph Days -- a Western comedy; WH Hudson's Green Mansions -- a classic romantic novel about the Amazon rainforest; Annapurna: A ...

Jun 20

It's smoothie wars!
This is London - London,England,UK
... concoctions such as the Brazilian, a £3.80 mixture of paw paw, apple juice, banana, Guarana booster and acai, a berry from the Amazon rainforest said to be ...

A tour along the Amazon
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
... On the homeward journey down the Amazon we called at Boca da Valeria, a village at the edge of the rainforest inhabited by Caboclo, a people of mixed Indian ...

Jun 19

Final piece of greenway opens
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
The thick green foliage and steamy weather were more reminiscent of the Amazon rainforest than the banks of the Hackensack River -- but hearty preservationists ...

Jun 17

10 reasons why Brazil must fall to the Socceroos
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... The Amazon rainforest is known as the lungs of the world, but between May 2000 and August 2005 it is estimated that Brazil lost more than 132,000 square ...

`You're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion'
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... In one, an international team measured the ratio of the woody liana vine to trees in the Amazon rainforest, and found that over the last 20 years, liana vines ...

Jun 16

PUT YOUR SHOES ON TO VISIT VENEZUELAN ANGEL
VUE Weekly - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
... For a moment the personal significance of this journey dawned on me, I was in the Amazon rainforest, Devil's Canyon, and this morning, I would be hiking to ...

The tourism World Cup
TravelBite.co.uk - London,UK
... With piranhas, spiders and the unknown around every corner, the best way to explore the rainforest is a boat trip up the Amazon. ...

Soy Exporters in Greenpeace's Sights
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
... this company (Cargill) is trashing the rainforest to grow soya to feed Europe's farm animals," said Thomas Henningsen, Greenpeace Amazon campaign coordinator ...

Jun 15

Deforestation and afforestation: A global concern
The Tide - Port Harcourt,Niger Delta,Nigeria
... Brazil produces and most of it is produced in the Amazon Basin. ... Developing infrastructure such as road networks in areas with tropical rainforest often leads ...

Amazon Basin Species Found Nowhere Else
University of Arkansas Daily Headlines - Fayetteville,AR,USA
... specimens in Amazonia, the world's largest tropical rainforest. Spanning more than half of Brazil, the 2.5 million square miles of the Amazon Basin contain a ...

LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: ASDA withdrawal of Brazilian beef welcome ...
noticias.info - Spain
... "Furthermore, vast areas of the Amazon rainforest are being cleared for cattle ranches causing local environmental disasters and releasing enormous quantities ...

Jun 14

The Fronthaul Group Signs Its First Letter of Intent to Provide ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... exclusive Brazilian license to recover sunken logs from the Amazon River and ... CEOTA, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the rainforest. ...

Brazil's fans share special soccer spirit
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... Shelton, who grew up on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, flew home to watch the games in 1998 and 2002. Many of the Brazilians ...

Jun 10

Cover Story : From nude model to model teacher
INQ7.net - Philippines
... The most memorable are John Boorman's The Emerald Forest, which brought her to the Amazon rainforestin Brazil

'I could be mowing the lawn . . . '
The Sunday Times - UK
... and two American Indian guides, you will learn not just how to survive, but how to make life comfortable in a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest. ...

Region takes a back seat to nowhere on Earth
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
... Wilderness? We think of lions and elephants on the African grasslands. Or the Amazon rainforest, with lush vegetation and piranhas. ...

Jun 9

Inside Brazil's Landless Movement
Slate - USA
... expeditions to the nearby Teles-Pides River, a branch of the Amazon, where a ... building a bridge that will extend the paved road further into the rainforest. ...

In Search of the Toromona
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
... the Amazon jungles of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, and in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay and Bolivia. In late April, the World Rainforest Movement ...

Jun 8

Federal border agencies allowing illegal mahogany imports, say ...
Natural Resources Defense Council - New York,NY,USA
... Unchecked logging in the Amazon threatens native communities, wildlife, and survival of ... US border control agencies look the other way, the rainforestand the ...
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Jun 7

Adventure in Ecuador is filled with challenges
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA
... a small rainforestcommunity located on the Napo River between the river towns of Misahualli and Coca. One of the largest tributaries of the Amazon River, the ...

Reptiles highlight new series
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
... a tortoise. Then he brought out the real thing - Byron, a yellow-footed tortoise commonly found in the Amazon rainforest. He fed ...

Jun 6

Fed govt announces US$482mn BR-163 hwy development - Brazil
BNamericas - Santiago,Chile
The highway currently stretches 1,764km from the central-western state Mato Grosso through the Amazon rainforestto Pará. Approximately ...

US Government Sued for Allowing Imports of Peruvian Mahogany
Environment News Service - USA
... While US border control agencies look the other way, the rainforestand the communities that depend on them to ... A mahogany tree is felled in the Amazon. ...
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Brazil clears way for Amazon road
BBC News - UK
Brazil has given the go-ahead for a controversial road through the heart of the Amazon rainforest to be paved, angering environmentalists. ...
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Jun 5

Why deserts will inherit the Earth
Independent - London,England,UK
... Atlantic. On one side is the Amazon rainforest; on the other the Sahara. The ... connection. "The Sahara fertilises the Amazon rainforest. This ...

An Ecosystem with a Purpose
Channel Insider - New York,NY,USA
... Sure, until you start thinking of places like the Amazon rainforestor the Everglades National Park, which are ecosystems in the true sense of the word. ...

Brazil OKs paving Amazon road on environment day
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
... Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gave the green light on Monday to paving a controversial road through the Amazon rainforest, benefiting farmers ...

The Amazonian Pie
Islam Online - Doha,Qatar
... Fifteen years later, I am wondering where everybody is when the world's lung, the Amazon rainforest, is being plotted out and sold like real estate while ...

Could do better
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... When Greenpeace recently produced a report tracing the destruction of the Amazon rainforestto intensive soya production to feed factory chickens that end up ...

Jun 4

How to grocery shop for a better planet
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... Of the Amazon rainforestthat is being cleared at a rate of 25,000sqkm a year to graze cattle and grow soybeans to feed to the animals we eat. ...

Jun 2

Green Fuel's Dirty Secret
CorpWatch.org - Oakland,CA,USA
... recently accused Archer Daniels Midland of funding, along with two other agricultural commodities traders, much of the razing of the Amazon rainforestfor soy ...

What on Earth can we do? (Last Night's TV)
The Northern Echo - Darlington,UK
... It wasn'ta cheerful story with endlessly depressing predictions about the Amazon rainforestwithering, the Arctic icecap melting, superpower hurricanes ...

Brazil launches pipeline project crossing Amazon rainforest
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched on Thursday the construction of a 670-km gas pipeline cutting through the heart of the Amazonian rainforest. ...

Jun 1

Global warming: What you can do about it
Lexington Herald Leader - Lexington,KY,USA
... The dominant three are collapse of the Gulf Stream, collapse of the Amazon rainforestand methane released from the sea floor. You ...

Imagine palm trees at the Pole
Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada
... In 2005 parts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest experienced the worst drought in over a century, thought to have been precipitated in part by abnormally high ...

Damned if you do
Economist (subscription) - UK
... They would occupy a part of the Amazon rainforest that is home to 800 species of bird and 750 of fish, including a catfish that migrates from the Amazon ...