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Amazon faces new threat with global demand for soya
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The Amazon lost 6,950 square miles of rainforest between 2003 and 2004. Some 4,633 square miles of soya beans were planted during that time.

Jul 20

Amazon deforestation may increase Caribbean hurricanes
Caribbean Net News - Georgetown, Cayman Islands
... and politicians in the Amazon waterways, Lelei LeLaulu, president of Counterpart International, said continued massive cutting of the rainforest will disrupt ...
Brian Cathcart
New Statesman - London,England,UK
... So clever and useful is the soya plant that it is threatening to swallow the Amazon rainforest. Where, until a few years ago, we ...
US company finds resistance by environmentalists
Houston Chronicle - United States
... destroyer of the rainforest. The Amazon lost 6,950 square miles of rainforest between 2003 and 2004. Some 4,633 square miles of ...
Amazon Logging Feeds Hurricanes
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
... Amazon waterways, Lelei LeLaulu, president of Counterpart International, a Washington-based non-profit agency, said continued massive logging of the rainforest ...

Jul 19

Sister Dorothy Stang Remembered In Her Hometown
WHIOtv.com - Dayton, Ohio, USA
... her life helping poor peasants in Brazil and trying to protect the rainforest where they ... Stang was gunned down early last year in the Amazon jungle by hired ...
A blessing for a port Chaplain still champions the souls of ...
Hudson Reporter - Hoboken,NJ,USA
... Balbi is also a long way from Brazil and the Amazon rainforest where he grew up, and while his village was nearly a thousand miles from the sea, he frequently ...

Jul 17

Drought Threatens Amazon Basin
Free Internet Press - New York, NY, USA
... and scientists aboard a fleet of boats anchored in Manaus, the Amazon's main city ... The destruction of the rainforest by illegal loggers has also been named as a ...
Diary: The Amazon rainforest
BBC News - UK
... It's a symposium on the future of the Amazon organised by the so-called "Green Patriarch", the head of the Greek Orthodox Church who has long taken an active ...
Drought threatens Amazon
MegaStar.co.uk - London, UK
... According to a report in the Guardian, several of the Amazonâs tributaries ... a stand against illegal logging and the destruction of the rainforest for ranching ...
Eating the Amazon: The fight to curb corporate destruction
Independent - London, England, UK
The scars are unmistakably man made. Hard-edged squares and rectangles,hundreds of acres across, hacked and burned out of the Amazon rainforest. ...

Jul 16

Diary: The Amazon rainforest
BBC News - UK
... The Amazon rainforest does strange, confusing things to the brain. Never mind global warming; it's my mind that's heading for dangerous temperatures.
Truth and illusion meet in the Peruvian rainforest
Lexington Herald Leader - Lexington, KY, USA
... Set in the lush Peruvian Amazon in the mid-20th century, Cellophane stars engineer Don Victor Sobrevilla Paniagua, who accomplishes his single-minded pursuit ...

Jul 15

Student's outdoor lifestyle leads to energy product launch
Montana State University - United States
... wallop of powdered guarana. Guarana seed is taken from a berry grown in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. Caughey said that guarana ...

Jul 14

Exposing radical environmentalists' assault on Western ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass, OR, USA
..."AMAZON.CON" by Marc Morano and Kent Washburn, features a former head of ...bogus science and craven money-motivation behind the "save-the-rainforest" movement.
Safeguarding Cameroon's Rainforest
Living on the Earth - Cambridge, MA, USA
CURWOOD: The destruction of the Amazon Basin rainforest in South America is well known here in the United States. But few people...

Jul 13

Stanford will live, die by the pass (Part XV)
RealFootball365.com - Scottsdale, AZ, USA
...make it work. The biggest problem in 2005 was the defense, which lost more territory than the Amazon rainforest. So while it's probably ...
Recruiting Volunteers for Asia Trail and Amazonia
W*USA 9 - Washington, DC, USA
...Trail, scheduled to open on Sept. 20, and Amazonia, where visitors explore the lush tropical rainforest of the Amazon River basin.

Jul 12

Paleontologists claim flesh-eating kangaroo once inhabited parts ...
ABC Online - Australia
...to around 15 million, the rainforest seems to have been very complex forest that would probably have the same kind of biodiversity as the Amazon does today.
IDB-Sponsored Peruvian Energy Project Criticized at US Senate ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
...in a highly biodiverse area of rainforest, home to indigenous communities including some of the last living in isolation anywhere in the Amazon Basin, Camisea ...
Eco-Forestry Up Close
The Green Guide - New York, NY, USA
...In addition to the Amazon, we should protect forests of North America's ...For example, in March 2006, the Rainforest Action Network accused the Weyerhauser and ...
Mayborn Museum Complex Presents Amazonian Reptiles July 15
Baylor University - Waco,TX,USA
"This beautiful and rare exhibit has sparked our curiosity about the mysterious Amazon rainforest and its flora and fauna.

Jul 10

Nine-year old gives birth
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl of the Apurina tribe in Brazil's Amazon rainforest gave birth to a baby earlier this week and doctors said overnight that police were ...
Brazil establishes 3 new parks in the Amazon rainforest
Mongabay.com - USA
...Nevertheless, the establishment of the newly protected areas is an important step in conserving the vast Amazon rainforest.
Tim Flannery
California Literary Review - Carlsbad,CA,USA
...changing. These shifts could trigger a reduction of rainfall in the Amazon basin and a shrinking of the Amazon rainforest.

Jul 9

Long Story Short: Mission is more than lip service
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA
...Buy Back the Amazon by the Nylons looked at the gap between short-term gains versus the long-term big picture - the idea being that the rainforest serves a ...
Green concert plan for Stadium
ic Wales - United Kingdom
...The trio of stadium shows, which span Wales and the US, have been planned to raise awareness about the depletion of the Amazon rainforest.

Jul 7

Greening Up the Downline
E/The Environmental Magazine - Norwalk,CT,USA
... founded in 1990 by John Easterling, who says he discovered herbal remedies
for his own health ailments while searching for treasure in the Amazon
rainforest. ...
Girl, 9, gives birth in Amazon rainforest
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
A nine-year-old girl of the Apurina tribe in Brazil's Amazon rainforest
gave birth to a baby earlier this week and doctors said on Friday police
were ...
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Jul 6

Big Names Lined Up For Rainforest Awareness Concerts Taking place ...
Gigwise - UK
... from across the musical spectrum are being lined up to take part in
three stadium gigs to raise the awareness about the destruction of the
Amazon Rainforest.

Jul 5

Mayborn Museum Complex To Present Lectures July 8
Baylor University - Waco,TX,USA
... professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago, will
lecture on "Ancient Amazon: A Sequence of Complex Cultures in the Rainforest"
at 1 pm ...
The environmental benefits of vegetarianism
Newton TAB - Needham,MA,USA
The vast Amazon rainforest is rapidly being destroyed to make way for
ranching and growing animal feed and will be gone by the end of this century...

Jul 3

'Tropical Stonehenge' in Brazil excites archeologists
Boston Globe - United States
...the discovery of a structure that appears to incorporate this knowledge suggests pre-Columbian Indians in the Amazon rainforest may have been more ...

Jul 2

A sticky marvel in the jungle
Washington Times - Washington, DC, USA
... rival in ambition the one that sets this family saga in motion: Don Victor's plan to transform his paper empire, tucked deep in the Amazon rainforest...