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Aug 31
Home / News / Sambazon Opens Acai Factory in the Amazon
The Beverage Network - USA
Located in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest and on the banks of
the world's largest river, the facility solidifies Sambazon as the world's
premier and...
Changing climate: 'Compost effect' may cause global warming to ...
Independent - London,England, UK
... Professor Cox warned that the Amazonian rainforest would
be lost unless urgent action ... levels of CO2 would see rainfall
move away from the Amazon basin causing...
Brazil proposes fund to stem rainforest cutting
Reuters AlertNet - London,England, UK
... allow credit for planting trees where forests have already been
cleared but offer no incentives for preventing cutting in areas like Brazil's
Amazon, home to...
Waking up to the planet's urgent crisis
The Church of England - England, UK
... Bishop James has also recently returned from a visit to the
Amazon rainforest. He said: 'Having spent time in Honduras with
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Aug 30
TV star bowled over by appeal effort
This Is Lancashire - Blackburn,England, UK
... has been launched by news programme Granada Reports to raise
funds for a project which delivers important medical supplies to people
in the Amazon rainforest.
Aug 29
New study on climate change threat to Latin America and the ...
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC,Canada
... seasonal El Nino-type conditions, coupled with local deforestation,
lead to a long-term drying out and die-off of the Amazon rainforest,
WWF believes that the...
Green wave surges onto pop culture's shores
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... biggest television network started filming a soap opera this
month set in the Amazon, hoping to stir global debate on the world's
biggest rainforest and its...
Katrina dwarfed by regional climate impact say top aid and ...
New Economics Foundation - London,UK
... If more permanent seasonal El Nino-type conditions lead to
a long-term drying out and die-off of the Amazon rainforest, the
UN expert body, the...
Where in Ecuador can my family go rafting
Outside Online - San Francisco,CA, USA
... a riverside inn and have time each afternoon to hike through
the surrounding rainforest. for the four-day expedition
down the Upano River in Ecuador's Amazon.
Aug 28
Paradise island: Lady Walton's Italian Eden
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
... There are rare waterlilies from the swampy reaches of the Amazon,
lotus pools and exotic orchids; you climb from a lush valley rainforest,
sprinkled with...
Aug 26
Confessions of a tourist: Surprise catch in the Amazon
The Sunday Times - UK
I HATE snakes. Big time. So it wasn't clever to be trudging through the
Amazon rainforest at night. I should have known it would end in
trouble.
NOISE DEMO - BAE BROUGH - 1 SEPTEMBER
Indymedia UK - UK
... Across the world, from the rapidly-depleting Amazon rainforest
to the destructive paths woven by oil pipelines throughout central Asia,
South America...
Aug 25
(PRN) - Renowned Off-Price Retailer Filene's Basement Opens in ...
Bolsamania.com - Madrid, Spain
(PRN) - Ecuador Court, in Blow to Chevron, Eliminates 64 Judicial Inspections
in Rainforest Trial, Amazon Watch Says...
Ban Brazilian beef, say Welsh farmers
News Wales - Knighton, UK
... Today, Mr Jones said: "Some 80 per cent of the growth in
Brazilian beef production is as a result of the destruction of the Amazon
rainforest but if a Welsh ...
Ecuador Court, in Blow to Chevron, Eliminates 64 Judicial ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Proof in the lawsuit, the first by Rainforest residents
against a US oil company ... hundreds of times higher than both
US and Ecuadorian norms, Amazon Watch said.
Aug 24
Anthony Wilson - Thursday August 24 2006
The North West Enquirer - Manchester, UK
... Don't tell me you have to be there. You can be in the Amazon
rainforest and you're even more there. And then this weekend,
I made a terrible mistake.
Maasai Mara among world's top 10 tourist sites
Daily Nation (subscription) - Nairobi, Kenya
... Brazil's Amazon Rainforest tops the list with
the Great Barrier Reef of north eastern Australia and the Himalayas following
closely at second and third ...
Everest youths to cross the globe
BBC News - UK
... point at the North Pole, but Mr Gauntlett said they would offset
their plane's carbon emissions by sponsoring the replanting of trees
in the Amazon Rainforest.
Q'orianka Kilcher
LA City Beat - Los Angeles, CA, USA
... Huachipaeri people in Peru, recently traveled deep into the
Amazonian Rainforest in Peru to ... Almost 40 percent of
the Peruvian Amazon has been parceled for [oil ...
Aug 21
Friends of Calakmul Protects 57,000 Acres of Jaguar Habitat...
AScribe (press release) - USA
The Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, covering 1.8 million acres, is home to
the second largest Jaguar population outside the Amazon Rainforest.
The thin red line
Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada
... Hylton Murray-Philipson, the trustee ofRainforest Concern,
a London-based charity, believes ... the best reason to be optimistic
over the future of the Amazon.
The monkey that could save the world
Independent - London,England, UK
... Barely 4 per cent is left. The destruction of the coastal forest
has received scant attention compared to the threat to the Amazon
rainforest.
Starving kids' TV of funds - and fun
Spiked - London, UK
... In fact, the Serious Amazon series uncritically celebrated
the work of the International Society for the Preservation of the Tropical
rainforest (ISPTR), a ...
Aug 17
German President Opens the Second Meeting of Economics Laureates...
CSRwire.com - USA
...The topics of the Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences range
from the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest to the effects
of Chinese economic strategies on...
Amazon rainforest experiences run deep for St. Francis HS students
Coon Rapids ECM Publishers - Coon Rapids, MN, USA
...For more than a week, they explored the Amazon rainforest
canopy, became part of a Yagua village and helped scientists investigate
in the inner workings of the...
The outlook for Amazonia is dry
Nature.com (subscription) - London, England, UK
...Last year's drought also bolsters a controversial 2004 finding
about the future of the Amazon rainforest. Peter Cox of
the Centre...
Amazon rainforest to star in Brazil soap opera
Reuters Canada - Toronto, Ontario,Canada
...filming a soap opera set in the Amazon that the producers
hope will stir debate at home and abroad on the plight of the world's
biggest rainforest and the...
Aug 15
Saying No to 'Climate Porn'?
TCS Daily - Washington, DC, USA
...Supposedly serious British media outlets don't think twice
about reporting the absurd, like the Amazon rainforest incapable
of sustaining a couple of years of...
Bison-hunting Plains indians more advanced than thought
Mongabay.com - USA
...Controversial evidence uncovered over the past decade suggests
that the Amazon rainforest was once home to large sedentary
populations of people...
Petrobras tests global UN leader training project
ANBA - Sao Paulo, Brazil
...There, in the region called Urucu, in the middle of the Amazon
rainforest, the company produces 56,500 barrels of oil and 9.7
million cubic metres of natural...
More droughts, floods and fires in a warmer world
Environmental Data Interactive - UK
...Tree cover is most likely to be lost in Eurasia, eastern China,
Canada, Central America and the Amazon rainforest, the scientists
said...
Aug 14
Amazon rainforest to star in Brazil soap opera
Washington Post - United States
...At present the Amazon is under threat from illegal logging
and other agricultural ventures. The rainforest lost 18,900 sq
km (7,300 sq miles) -- an area more...
Fish decline has ecological impact in tropical river
Mongabay.com - USA
...fish habitats in the rainforest of Peru. Many popular
tropical freshwater aquarium fish originate in the world's tropical
rainforests. The Amazon Basin is a...
Aug 13
Green Light at the End of the Tunnel (Part 1)
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills, CA, USA
...They invited a spokesperson from an Amazon rainforest
preservation group to speak in one of their online videos on the subject
of Ford's crummy history of eco...
Amazonian berries top the bill
Freshinfo - London, UK
...Dubbed by some as the latest superfruit, açai is a purple berry
native to the Amazon rainforest, renowned for its energy-boosting
effects and high nutritional...
Aug 12
Brazilian rainforest loggers arrested for illegal operations
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... has surpassed cattle ranching as the leading threat to the Amazon.
... approved by environmental authorities before cutting down the
rainforest -- a requirement ...
Past climate change caused dramatic shift in humidity ...
Mongabay.com - USA
... Drought, fire called biggest threats to Amazon rainforest
ecosystem. Climate change 55 million years ago caused significant changes
...
Aug 11
Amazon drought extends into second year
Mongabay.com - USA
The drought in the Amazon rainforest looks to be extending
into a second year. Last week Brazil's government declared a state
of ...
46 arrested for illegal Amazon logging
Mongabay.com - USA
... agents of the federal environmental protection agency, were
arrested for allegedly operating illegal logging operations in the Amazon
rainforest and southern ...
Vale Offers C$17.2 Billion in Cash for Canada's Inco (Correct)
Bloomberg - USA
... to purchase Canico Resources Corp., a Canadian-based mining
company that owned the Onca Puma nickel mine near Vale's existing
Amazon rainforest mines and ...
Aug 10
No Backroom Deal on LNG!
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA, USA
... LNG for California would likely come from the Russian Far East,
Indonesia, the Amazon rainforest and Australian coral reefs.
There ...
How the Amazon's indigenous people are holding back the 'arc of ...
Independent - London,England, UK
... Hylton Philipson, the trustee of Rainforest Concern,
a London-based charity, believes the story ... is the best cause
for optimism over the future of the Amazon.
Brazil arrests 46 in logging crackdown
Sky Valley Journal - WY, USA
... people, including 16 agents of the federal environmental protection
agency, for allegedly operating illegal logging operations in the Amazon
rainforest and in ...
Brazilian federal police foil license selling scheme
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China
... Joaquim Gomes de Oliveira and 16 inspectors and employees of
the Brazilian Institute of Environment (Ibama) in the northern Amazon
rainforest region, Amapa ...
Aug 9
NASA satellite images reveal more Amazon deforestation
Mongabay.com - USA
In the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, verdant green Amazon Rainforest
is broken up by broad tracts of pale green and tan deforested land.
Small-scale logging often leads to major clear-cutting in the ...
Stanford Report - USA
... The Amazon Basin contains the largest contiguous rainforest
on Earth—a vast region nearly as big the continental United States that
includes Brazil and seven ...
McDonalds makes Amazon pledge
Green Consumer Guide - UK
The restaurant chain pledged to stop selling products made from chickens
fed on soya grown in deforested areas of the Amazon rainforest.
...
Aug 8
Speakeasy Cinema #7, Monday SEPTEMBER 18th: Filmmaker Pedro ...
MediaRights - USA
... K" and "Citizen Art." Mr. Carvajal is currently
working in his next feature documentary about the Yanomami culture from
the Amazon Rainforest in southern ...
Aug 7
Amazon disaster brings whitewater race to Canada
The Republic - Vancouver,Canada
... As big as the entire continental United States, the Amazon
rainforest plays an absolutely critical role in the environmental
processes of the Western Hemisphere ...
Chevron Faces Fraud Charges in Ecuador Over Flawed Environmental ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... from fraud charges filed by the Ecuadorian government in US
federal court over a flawed environmental remediation in the Amazon
rainforest, human rights and ...
Aug 6
Social history as colour by numbers
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... This week we were off to the Amazon rainforest.
The narrator introduced proceedings with: "in the jungle, there are
countless ways to die".
Let's harness the hoodies' do-goodery
Times Online - UK
... the suggestion that we treat oxygen production and carbon-storage
as commodities, and pay the Brazilian Government to preserve the Amazon
rainforest, on the ...
Werner Herzog
World Screen News - New York,NY, USA
... In some of my films you can see this, like in Fitzcarraldo,
where you see a native Indian of the Amazon rainforest in
a way that, now, 25 years later, you can ...
Aug 5
Ontario's last, great wilderness
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... The others are a similar landscape in Russia and Brazil's
Amazon rainforest. All are dwindling. A couple of centuries
ago, Ontario was nothing but trees.
Aug 4
Good News All Around
Greenthinkers.org - USA
Secondly, from Climate Ark, the vast Amazon rainforest is
on the brink of being turned into desert, with catastrophic consequences
for the world's climate ...
Mayborn Museum Complex Extends Traveling Exhibit
Baylor University - Waco, TX, USA
... collection consists of headdresses, vests and other ornamentations
made from the brilliantly colored feathers of tropical birds found in
the Amazon rainforest.
Students learn from global field trips
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI, USA
... Ten young explorers from Sun Prairie's two middle schools
returned last month from the Amazon rainforest in Peru,
where they expected to meet pink dolphins ...
Aug 3
Greedy dam plans could choke the Amazon
People & the Planet - London, UK
... Half of this energy generation would be provided by two huge
dam complexes in the Amazon. Dozens of other dams being planned
for the rainforest appear in the ...
Part 2: Lost paraguayos: The Yankees are coming By Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
... Free Trade Area of the Americas - was suddenly connected with
"terror", which happens to be the biggest obstacle to the US
occupation of the Amazon rainforest.
Aug 2
Amazonian aphrodisiac hits market
ConfectioneryNews.com - Montpellier, France
... combination of wild harvested exotic rainforest plants
including Clavo Huasco and Jatoba, known among Indigenous people of the
Amazon rainforest for having ...
CopyRight: Greenpeace/Daniel Beltra
Greenpeace UK - London, UK
... at least 30 per cent of the world's land-based animal and
plant species and 220,000 people from 180 different indigenous nations,
the Amazon rainforest is one ...
Aug 1
World's top ten quirkiest hotels
TravelBite.co.uk - London, UK
... list. The top ten includes hotels that are located deep in the
Amazon rainforest, made of ice and built into ancient caves.
In the ...
Amazon DEFORESTATION CAUSES HURRICANE
The Voice - UK
... Currently, more than one fifth of the Amazon rainforest
has been destroyed and, according to a Brazilian congressional committee,
the Amazon is vanishing at a ...
Selective logging leads to clear-cutting in the Amazon rainforest
Mongabay.com - USA
A new study links selective logging to clear-cutting in the Amazon
rainforest. The research is significant because it identifies ...
Brazil Nabs Diamond Smuggler in Rondonia
Diamonds.net - New York,NY, USA
By Jeanette Goldman. In Brazil's remote Amazon rainforest
state of Rondonia, police arrested a man with $200,000 worth of rough
diamonds, reported Reuters.
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