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Sep 30
Wreckage of missing plane found, no survivors
China Daily - China
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- The wreckage of the Boeing 737-800 airliner that disappeared
over dense Amazon rainforest in Brazil with 155 people on
board has been found ...
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Brazilian plane wreckage found
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
Brazil's Air Force has located the wreckage of a passenger plane, which
disappeared over the Amazon rainforest. The Boeing 737,
which ...
Missing jet crash-site located in Amazon
InTheNews.co.uk - London, UK
The wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane believed to have crashed in
the Amazon rainforest has been spotted by rescue planes.
...
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No plane crash survivors likely: Brazilian officials
ABC Regional Online - Australia
Authorities in Brazil say it is unlikely there are any survivors from a
passenger jet that crashed yesterday over the Amazon rainforest.
...
Sep 29
Bigger Canadian titles show up at VIFF
24 Hours Vancouver - Canada
... big questions. Like, why do Spanish tomatoes kill farming in
Africa? Or, how are European cows eating up the Amazon rainforest?
Intel's Barrett helping Brazil go wireless
MSNBC - USA
... "We've got our first billion people on the Internet.
What better place to demonstrate what technology can do than in the middle
of the Amazon rainforest?".
Sep 28
Carbon credit sale funds rainforest communities
Environmental Data Interactive - UK
Bolivia received $25m for the sale of carbon credits it had earned by saving
Amazon rainforest from logging in the first ever such deal
for the impoverished ...
Brazil greens see tensions if Lula wins second term
Washington Post - United States
... on global dimensions. Today, Lula is caretaker of the vast Amazon
rainforest, the largest preserve of biodiversity in the world.
...
US gov't pledges grant for Borneo conservation project
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - USA
... Botanical scientists believe the jungles of Borneo is even older
than the Amazon rainforest in South America and one of the
very few virgin jungles in the ...
Thomas Marent: Out of the woods
Independent - London,England, UK
... The photographer has grave concerns about plans to build a road
from Peru all the way to Brazil through the Amazon rainforest.
"It ...
Fundesin: using wireless broadband in Amazonia
newswireless.net - London, UK
... FUNEDESIN owns 4380 acres of rainforest that is protecting
biodiversity and the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon
rainforest.
Amazon Herb Company launches Liquizon capsules with alcohol-free ...
Newstarget.com (press release) - Taichung,Taiwan
The Amazon Herb Company, an innovator in rainforest botanicals,
has launched an innovative line of highly-concentrated rainforest
herbs in a hybrid delivery ...
Sep 27
Brazil in numbers
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA, USA
... The country is geographically dominated by the vast Amazon
rainforest with sparse population, but the country's richest
and most densely populated region, the ...
Zola Acai Gets a Healthy Boost From Emigrant Capital
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... On a trip to Brazil, he fell in love with the super-antioxidant
Acai berry (pronounced ah-sci-ee), which is grown in the Amazon Rainforest.
World Record Marathon Swimmer to Swim Amazon River in February ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA, USA
... Strel's desire to highlight the increasing destruction and
depletion of the Amazon rainforest will, as he says, "see
me through the dark days and arduous ...
Sep 26
US To Work With Borneo States On 'Heart Of Borneo' Project
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
... pristine form. He said that according to scientific estimates,
it is older than the rainforest in the Amazon, South America.
The three ...
Amazing survivor
Williams Lake Tribune - B.C., Canada
... The same is true of the tropical rainforest. The Amazon
Basin is touted as a global hotspot, an area of such significance that
it must be protected; must be ...
Experience the Amazon Rainforest!
Pacific University - Forest Grove,OR, USA
... last year living with indigenous family, oil devastation, hikes
in the rainforest. We will study the ecology of the
Upper Amazon; indigenous peoples' methods ...
River Peoples fight for recognition and representation
Radio Netherlands - Netherlands
... deep in the rainforest the journey can take as long as
six days. Bettine Robers belongs to CMC, a catholic development organisation
working with Amazon Indians ...
Sep 25
Doing Business in Real Time
CIO - Framingham,MA, USA
... I hear about clear cutting of the Amazon rainforests.
... at the beginning of a road that runs for a thousand miles west
through the rainforest to another town ...
Sep 23
Amazon rainforest has its first wireless city under poverty ...
Mongabay.com - USA
Intel unveiled what it is calling the "World's Most Remote Digital
City" in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The wireless,
high ...
Intel brings WiMax broadband to the Amazon
VNUNet.com - UK
... "Technology has expanded what is possible in Parintins,"
said Intel chairman Craig Barrett at a dedication ceremony today in the
Amazon rainforest.
Sep 22
From Malibu to MARTA
Grist Magazine - Seattle, WA, USA
Environmental degradation threatens some of the world's most fascinating
creatures in their native habitats. The Amazon rainforest. The Arctic.
Sep 21
Activists Demand Corporate Responsibility at San Francisco...
Common Dreams (press release) - Portland, ME, USA
ConocoPhillips, which has more Amazon rainforest
holdings than any other US oil company, is being called on to reconsider
drilling plans in several...
ENERGY-BRAZIL: Growth Without Guzzling
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
...of large new hydroelectric plants can be avoided, especially
in the Amazon region where dams would destroy biodiversity by flooding
the rainforest, and also...
Sep 20
Brazil must do more to end slave labour - report
SABC News - Auckland Park, South Africa
Most modern slavery occurs along the agricultural frontier encroaching
on the Amazon rainforest, where labor is needed to clear
huge tracts of land for...
Pole to pole - without motors
Metro - London, UK
...Pole in order to start their adventure, they plan to offset
the emissions the flight will produce by sponsoring the planting of trees
in the Amazon rainforest.
Intel World Ahead Initiative Brings WiMAX to the Amazon Rainforest
TMCnet - USA
Intel Corporation has created a wireless, high-speed Internet network in
Parintins, a remote town on an island in the Amazon River, as part
of its Intel (News...
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The heat is on to stop global warming
Guardian Unlimited - UK
It also means runaway positive feedback, as the Arctic tundras
begin to release the methane they contain, and the Amazon rainforest
dies off, turning trees...
Lost Mountain teacher earns top honor
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA, USA
Take a recent lesson on the Amazon rainforest,
for example. Dawson set up a simulated conference with students as participants
observing...
Sep 19
Expansion of agriculture in the Amazon may impact climate
Mongabay.com - USA
...prices have fueled agricultural expansion in the Amazon
basin, especially in the cerrado, a tropical savanna-like ecosystem that
neighbors rainforest areas.
PRE HALLOW'S DREAM
JamBase - San Francisco, CA, USA
In addition to great taste, Zola Acai is also involved is taking
steps to preserving the community and canopy of the Amazon Rainforest.
Sep 18
Ted Bell's Spy' Thriller: Look South for Terror
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
Lord Hawke leads a mysterious expedition up the farthest reaches
of the Amazon River, where he is... Golden domes and minarets
rise beneath the rainforest canopy.
Raytheon's Amazon project may help it win bid
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
Raytheon Co. says it might win a $2.5 billion contract to protect the US
border because of the company's work in an unlikely place: the Amazon
rainforest.
Sep 17
Lively Protest and Street Theater Outside Wall Street Investor...
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco, CA, USA
...destruction. In the Amazon, they have financed the disenfranchisement
of indigenous nations and the clear cutting of pristine rainforest.
Brazil says rate of Amazon rainforest destruction declining
PlanetSave.com - Portland,ME,USA
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) _ The rate of destruction of the Amazon
rain forest is slowing, although ranchers, loggers and soybean farmers
are illegally...
Sep 16
DEMAND CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY!!
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco, CA, USA
Amazon Watch, Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network
and others will be turning up the heat in street under the unified banner
of Demand Corporate...
Sep 15
Spain buys up coast to halt concrete creep
Guardian Unlimited - UK
In a move that imitates the purchase of Amazon rainforest and other
threatened areas by charities, the government is issuing expropriation
orders while ...
Manaus, a Metropolis on the Amazon
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... to move here, and then we will go together to visit some of
the rainforest, the rivers ... In the middle of the Amazon
they don't have to put up with the city, you ...
Raytheon Says Amazon Project Gives It Edge for US Border Job
Bloomberg - USA
... says it may win a $2.5 billion contract to protect the US border
because of the company's work in an unlikely place: the Amazon
rainforest.
Sep 14
The 'Right' Stuff: Albert's inconvenient truth
Luther College Chips - Decorah,Iowa,USA
... Expanding croplands for energy production has environmental
obstacles, too. For Brazil, it has required cutting down sections of the
Amazon rainforest.
New Brazilian acai factory set to boost supplies to US market
FoodNavigator-USA - Montpellier,France
... business model ultimately benefits thousands of small family
farmers and protects the biodiversity of the rainforest. Its efforts
in the Amazon were recently ...
Google Earth teams up with UNEP to highlight global environmental ...
South Asian Women's Forum - New Delhi,India
... Among the 100 "hotspots" included are the dwindling
Amazon rainforest, melting polar ice caps, and the startling declines
of Central Asia's Aral Sea and ...
Sep 13
Naturally Rockford: Better World herbal line sustains people ...
Rock River Times - Rockford,IL,USA
... remote Peruvian village. Instituting fair wages for native farmers.
Helping to preserve parts of the Amazon Rainforest. These are a
...
Chickening out
Goldstream News Gazette - Langford,British Columbia,Canada
... newsletter, Econews, he sounds an alarm. The Amazon rainforest,
one of the lungs of the world, is drying up and in danger of dying.
Sep 12
Brazil: Election Time! Part 1
Gringoes.com - Sao Paulo,Brazil
... Polling day is generally regarded as chaotic, with lots of people
on the roads, and what would seem to be half the Amazon rainforest
converted to flyers that ...
Grief at student's Amazon murder
BBC News - UK
Colleagues have expressed their sadness at the murder of a postgraduate
student in the Amazon rainforest. A former convict has been ...
Sep 9
Brazil sees Amazon land clearing easing this year
Scientific American - USA
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Huge tracts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest
were cleared legally and illegally in the past year, but the rate of deforestation
slowed ...
Slow Food Nation
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Millions of acres of the Amazon rainforest -- the lung,
liver and heart of the global climate system -- are being burned to grow
soya for export.
Electronic Registry Aims to Slow Amazon Deforestation
WorldChanging - USA
In an effort to stop illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest,
Brazil's government has announced that starting this month, it will
begin using a new ...
Sep 8
Amazon destruction continues to slow
999 Today - UK
The figures show that deforestation of the Amazon rainforest has
fallen by about 11 per cent this year. This compares to a 50 per ...
Eat To Live: Soy products not so healthy?
United Press International - USA
... Perhaps it's not surprising. More than 25,000 square kilometers
of Amazon rainforest were felled last year, for planting primarily
with soy.
SunOpta to quadruple antioxidant-rich acai supply
FoodNavigator-USA - Montpellier,France
... The firm operates a fair trade supply chain that benefits local
families and protects the biodiversity of the Amazon Rainforest.
...
Brazil sees Amazon land clearing easing this year
Zee News - Noida,India
Brasilia, Brazil, Sept 07: Huge tracts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest
were cleared legally and illegally in the past year, but the rate of deforestation
slowed ...
Brazil sees Amazon land clearing easing this year
Reuters AlertNet - London,England, UK
BRASILIA, Brazil, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Huge tracts of Brazil's Amazon
rainforest were cleared legally and illegally in the past year, but
the rate of ...
Sep 7
Rate of deforestation in Amazon slowing
WWF International - Gland,Switzerland
... the Amazon are declining, but ranching, logging and agriculture
activities are still responsible for continued degradation of the world's
largest rainforest, ...
Activist fraud and fund raising
NewsByUs - Boise,ID,USA
... A year later, Greenpeace admitted the claims were fraudulent:
there was no oil. * A 5-year Rainforest Action-Amazon Watch
campaign was centered around ...
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Amazon Deforestation Rate Falls
Environment News Service - USA
BRAZILIA, Brazil, September 7, 2006 (ENS) - For the second year in row
the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has declined,
according to estimates ...
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Peacetalks: Leila Salazar, Resisting Chevron in the Ecuadorian ...
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Amazon Watch is a non-profit organization based in San
Francisco working to protect the Amazon rainforest and support
the rights of indigenous peoples.
SCIENCE NEWS
Washington Post - United States
... So, while looking at a beautiful painting, they could be hearing
it, too, says a British professor. · The Amazon rainforest might
have existed 15 million ...
Sep 6
Brazil says rate of Amazon rainforest destruction declining
International Herald Tribune - France
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil The rate of destruction of the Amazon rain
forest is slowing, although ranchers, loggers and soybean farmers continue
to illegally ...
Blackrod is first stop in 200 mile TV walk
This Is Lancashire - Blackburn,England, UK
... every day. The project aims to raise funds to deliver important
medical supplies to people in the Amazon rainforest. John Timms,
chairman ...
Large-Scale Farming Now Causes Substantial Forest Loss in Amazon
AScribe (press release) - USA
... happened to large plots (greater than 60 acres) of rainforest
after they ... expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the
southern Brazilian Amazon," by Douglas ...
Brazil: Enawene Nawe denounce destruction of fishing waters
Survival International - Paris,USA
... by the National Academy of Sciences in the USA used satellite
images to demonstrate that soya planters are directly destroying Amazon
rainforest...
Sep 5
Scientist: Adapt for global warming
United Press International - USA
... "There are some things that we can't adapt: We can't
relocate the Amazon rainforest or replace bleached coral reefs,
but we have to think about adaptation with ...
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Crops responsible for deforestation in Brazil
SciDev.net - UK
... accounted for nearly one fifth of deforestation in one state
of the Brazilian Amazon. follow what happened to large
pieces of land cleared of rainforest in the ...
Local Rotary-sponsored student recounts travels
Black Hills Pioneer - Spearfish,SD,USA
... Venezuela as a whole. Whether it was the Amazon Rainforest
or swimming in the Caribbean Ocean, he said that was for sure the highlight.
...
Sep 4
Global warming 'cannot be stopped'
Times Online - UK
... "There are some things that we can't adapt: we can't relocate
the Amazon rainforest or replace bleached coral reefs, but we have
to think about ...
180 Degrees Expedition
Supersport - Johannesburg,South Africa
... fly to the North Pole, although Gauntlett said they would offset
their plane's carbon emissions by sponsoring the replanting of trees
in the Amazon rainforest.
Waging War in Colombia's National Parks
Colombia Journal - Colombia
... situated east of the Andes Mountains in the department of Meta
where the wide-open plains of the north, known as Los Llanos, meet the
Amazon Rainforest of south ...
Sep 3
Perfect Fruits Meet Perfect Nutrition: Anti-Aging Company Creates ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... 3, 2006 -- By unifying the world's two most nutrient perfect
whole-food fruits, Goji from the Himalayan mountains and Acai from the
Amazon rainforest, with a ...
Face to face with a monster from the deep
The Observer - UK
... From La Paya we headed east into Brazil, travelling on small
boats along the Uapes river through remote areas of the Amazon rainforest.
...
Prisoners of the rainforest
Times Online - UK
... day slaves working in the industries that feed off the edges
of the rainforest. The Amazon is an important
centre for pig-iron production — the intermediate ...
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Sep 2
Baby Boomers: Now There is an Easy Way to Help People Stay Healthy ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Mona Vie is a blend of 19 of the most nutritious exotic fruits from the
Amazon rainforest, their known benefits are transforming lives
and the taste of Mona ...
Sep 1
Brazil unveils technology to curb logging
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
... registry for the transport and storage of all forestry products,
which she said would help in the battle against illegal logging in the
Amazon rainforest.
Tri-Continental festival promises quality viewing
Tonight - Johannesburg,South Africa
... It tells the story of how Canadian oil giant EnCana trampled
all over the Amazon rainforest and the people of Ecuador to turn
the oilfields into cash.
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