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Sky News
December 2, 2008
It may be best known for its lush Amazon rainforest, but northeast
Brazil is a
drought-stricken place. It is home to 50m people, many of whom eke out an ...
Sunderland Echo
December 2, 2008
By Katy Wheeler INTREPID dad-of-four David Cook swapped Roker for the rainforest to compete in one of the world's most dangerous races. ...
Christian Science Monitor
December 2, 2008
... the northwestern corner of Mato Grosso state, which is located in the western part of
Brazil, which is on the southern edge of the
Amazon rain forest. ...
Indiana University
December 2, 2008
With those same dynamics now playing out in the Amazon, and since rain forest deforestation is one of the largest contributors to
carbon emissions, ...
MarketWatch
December 2, 2008
The Amazon Defense Coalition represents dozens of rainforest communities and five
Indigenous groups that inhabit
Ecuador's Northern Amazon region. ...
The Daily Toreador (registration)
December 2, 2008
Almost too obvious to mention, but too useful to ignore is Amazon.com. Weighing in at 50 million users per month, it's hard to go wrong with this retail ...
Bloomberg
December 2, 2008
1 (Bloomberg) --
Brazil said it will slash the annual loss of Amazonian rainforest by more than half and clamp down on illegal logging by adding 3000 ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 30, 2008
When most people think about
Brazil, they think about
football or carnival or the rainforest. But although these are all significant aspects of Brazilian ...
Radio Netherlands
November 29, 2008
His book, Barefoot through the Amazon: On the track of
evolution, details his work with primates in the Amazon rainforest. He has identified new species of ...
AHN
November 29, 2008
Sao Paulo, Brazil (AHN) - Destruction of
Brazil's Amazon rainforest has increased this year for the first time in four years, the government
officials said. ...
Financial Post
November 28, 2008
Our guide, Daniel Vasquez, who grew up in the Amazon rain forest, swore the indolent mammals lie on branches waiting for shoots to grow, so they can eat ...
Independent Online
November 28, 2008
There he conducted several missions to study the lives of the tribes of the Mato Grosso and the Amazonian rainforest, collecting material for his theories ...
Lower Hudson Journal news
November 28, 2008
He said rough estimates are that 20 percent to 25 percent of the rain forest has been cut down. "In 1973, during a field trip to see the Trans-Amazon ...
Reuters
November 28, 2008
Deforestation rates have slowed in recent years but huge swathes of the world's largest rain forest are still chopped down each year. ...
Independent
November 28, 2008
Songs to celebrate Chico accompanied many dances, and banners proclaimed the need to protect the rainforest. On our last day in Rio Branco, one team invited ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 26, 2008
So why, reading the novel, did I feel that I was battling through dense rainforest? Many
Europeans admire Hatoum, yet I got the impression that some vital ...
MarketWatch
November 26, 2008
The Amazon Defense Coalition represents dozens of rainforest communities and
Indigenous groups in
Ecuador's Amazon region. Its mission is to protect the ...
Xinhua
November 26, 2008
26 (Xinhua) -- The Amazon Cooperation Treaty
organization (ACTO) Wednesday launched a campaign to promote tourism in the Amazon Rainforest area. ...
Munster Times
November 25, 2008
After the assemblies, the
explorers headed to third-grade teacher Tammy Haggerty Jones' classroom where they admired the makeshift rainforest atmosphere, ...
Asheville Citizen-Times
November 25, 2008
4, friends and family are invited to Asheville Middle's Amazon Rainforest Marketplace from 5:30 to 6:30 in the school's gym and gym lobby. ...
Reuters UK
November 24, 2008
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A mob of about 3000 people attacked government offices to protest a crackdown on illegal Amazon logging, the government said on ...
MarketWatch
November 24, 2008
The Amazon Defense Coalition represents dozens of rainforest communities and five
Indigenous groups that inhabit
Ecuador's Northern Amazon region. ...
Bloomberg
November 24, 2008
Our guide, Daniel Vasquez, who grew up in the Amazon rain forest, swore the indolent mammals lie on branches waiting for shoots to grow, so they can eat ...
Halesowen News
November 22, 2008
... and I have found no better topic of discussion as our
boat plunges into the Amazon rainforest than how - and how not - to have sex in public toilets. ...
Irish Independent
November 21, 2008
This is particularly the case with the Amazon rainforest, which has a large percentage of all types of flora and fauna. People worldwide should write to ...
PR-CANADA.net (press release)
November 21, 2008
... stories from GreenTracks' trips, reviews of books about the Amazon, natural history information on the rainforest and its' flora and fauna,
ecology, ...
The Age
November 21, 2008
Apart from his ex-wife and two ageing
Missionaries, Everett is the only person in the world beyond the sweeping banks of the Maici River in the Amazon basin ...
guardian.co.uk
November 21, 2008
When film/2001/aug/10/artsfeatures1">Werner Herzog was asked to make a second film in the Amazon rainforest, after his delirious classic Aguirre, ...
MarketWatch
November 21, 2008
The Amazon Defense Coalition represents dozens of rainforest communities and five
Indigenous groups that inhabit
Ecuador's Northern Amazon region. ...
Spiegel Online
November 20, 2008
There are as many different types of wood growing on each hectare in the
Yasuni rainforest in the northwestern Amazon as there are species in all of North ...
guardian.co.uk
November 19, 2008
The instruments will be mounted on a Brazilian air force jet normally used to monitor rainforest destruction with the aim of locating an estimated 39 groups ...
Chicago Sun-Times
November 19, 2008
... Daniel Everett after he graduated from
Chicago's Moody Bible Institute was to change the lives of members of a tiny tribe in the Amazonian rain forest. ...
findingDulcinea
November 19, 2008
by findingDulcinea Staff Body-heat sensors will soon help
Brazil find and protect
Indigenous tribes in the
Amazon rain forest, a crucial development in ...
WalesOnline
November 19, 2008
And now the teenager has his sights set on a four-week survival course in the Amazon Rainforest. Spencer, of Morien Crescent, has been a Pontypridd Air ...
Greenpeace USA
November 19, 2008
The
Brazilian Congress, influenced by the
Agribusiness sector, seeks to change the Forest Code in Brazil to open more of the Amazon rainforest to be cleared ...
EP Magazine
November 19, 2008
For example, fires in the Amazon rain forest -- many of which are set by man to clear forest or maintain clearings -- are anything but spectacular. ...
Mongabay.com
November 19, 2008
Brazil will use a plane equipped with body-heat sensing
technology to locate tribes in the Amazon rainforest, reports the Associated Press. ...
Independent
November 18, 2008
Take the Tayrona
National Park, a tract of virgin rainforest in the north of the country ringed by deserted beaches, aquamarine waters and the towering ...
Boston Herald
November 18, 2008
Dowd, an Amazon biologist at the New
England Aquarium, regularly takes care of three anaconda - swimming boa constrictors that crush their prey to death. ...
Los Angeles Times
November 17, 2008
"Texaco used the pristine Amazon rain forest as a garbage can," said Steven Donziger, a New York-based environmental attorney who represents the Ecuadoreans ...
