Wed. March 17, 2010
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Weston Town Crier
March 17, 2010
Sister Dorothy traveled as a missionary to
Brazil in 1966, and worked to improve the lives of poor peasants in the
Amazon rain forest who had been promised ...
Opposing Views
March 17, 2010
It now appears that just such conditions have already occurred, and in fact, the Amazonian jungles were unaffected, says Gerald Warner, a columnist with the ...
Cool Earth
March 17, 2010
A new report looking at how times of
drought impact the Amazon rainforest suggests that the tropical forest may be more resilient than
scientists previously ...
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
March 17, 2010
They used
satellite data to study the
drought of 2005, when rainfall fell to the lowest in living memory, and found that the rainforest suffered no ...
Chicago Tribune
March 17, 2010
Two of the leading roles are taken by Muti regulars, bass Ildar Abdrazakov as the marauding Hun, Attila, and soprano Violeta Urmana as his Amazonian enemy, ...
Berthoud Recorder
March 17, 2010
The team members chose the Amazon rain forest as their camping local. The characters in the performance were: Coach Gregory Fetzer had this to say about the ...
Cool Earth
March 17, 2010
... grown in tropical forests, she noted. According to figures from Monga Bay 600000, kilometres of Amazon rainforest have been cleared over the past 40 years.
Montgomery Newspapers
March 17, 2010
Gerson Lehrman Group
March 17, 2010
The law in
Brazil not only prohibits deforestation, but also allows plantation in only 20% of any property in Legal Amazonian region (there is current ...
PR Newswire (press release)
March 17, 2010
As a result, she feels a strong obligation towards the land and people of the Amazonian rainforests. Sharing this passion, the Rainforest Foundation US ...
Indian Country Today
March 17, 2010
Click Green
March 14, 2010
Published Sun 14 Mar 2010 13:24 A new
NASA-funded study has concluded that Amazon rainforests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century ...
Register
March 12, 2010
The world faces warmer more violent weather, and more
forest fires ...
scientists believe the whole Amazon itself is threatened, with the rainforest being ...
msnbc.com
March 12, 2010
Imagine standing on both sides of the equator, the northern and southern hemispheres splayed out before you in a landscape of Amazon rainforest, mountains, ...
Huffington Post (blog)
March 11, 2010
The Rainforest Newsladder has reflected this, highlighting the individuals, businesses and countries working hard at laying the groundwork for a sustainable ...
USA Today
March 11, 2010
The Miami tourist
institution Monkey Jungle is marking the 50th anniversary of its "Amazonian Rainforest. ...
Reuters
March 11, 2010
A spokeswoman for the Amazon rain forest communities who sued 17 years ago said they believe the cleanup was a sham. Lawyer Abady argued in court that ...
MarketWatch (press release)
March 8, 2010
The Aguinda lawsuit charges that Texaco (which
Chevron bought in 2001) created a system of oil extraction in the Amazon rainforest that deliberately ...
World Screen News
February 25, 2010
In October 2009, Sky joined forces with its customers and
WWF to launch Sky Rainforest Rescue, a three-year project to help save one billion trees in the ...
Los Angeles Times
February 21, 2010
Boa Frente has rainwater cisterns that were financed by a project to preserve the
Amazon rain forest. (Brian Vander Brug /
Los Angeles Times / November 10, ...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 12, 2010
For pioneers, the problem was rainforest thicker than the Amazon: there are still no roads for more than 60 miles, but a
Cessna from Hobart flies you to ...
NewsOK.com
February 12, 2010
Chevron Corp. has stepped up its offensive against a group that says the oil giant poisoned sections of the
Amazon rain forest. ...
The Age
February 12, 2010
A question to
Kevin Rudd on ABC1's Q and A this week picked up on one of the alleged errors - that a suggestion the Amazon rainforest was disappearing had ...
New York Times
February 12, 2010
... of several works of history, reconstructs the Casement investigation in the Putumayo region of the
Amazon rain forest that followed the
Congo report. ...
Newsweek
February 11, 2010
... will be similar to planting thousands of acres of Amazonian rainforest, the reality is that the Olympics are going to do some damage to the environment. ...
Cool Earth
February 10, 2010
Plans to build a new hydroelectric
dam in the Amazon rainforest have been labelled reckless by some
conservationists. Speaking to Media
global, ...
ABC News
February 10, 2010
... KAHN AP Energy Writer AP
Chevron Corp. has stepped up its offensive against a group that says the oil giant poisoned sections of the
Amazon rain forest. ...
Cool Earth
February 8, 2010
Smarter farming methods could be the key to protecting the Amazon rainforest, it has been claimed. Speaking to the Associated Press, researcher Flavio Wruck ...
Mongabay.com
February 8, 2010
"Indirect land-use change could considerably compromise the GHG savings from growing biofuels, mainly by pushing rangeland frontier into the Amazon forest ...
Docuticker (blog)
February 1, 2010
And in
Brazil, where it spread even more rapidly, the soybean is invading the Amazon rainforest. For close to two centuries after its introduction into the ...
Reuters
February 1, 2010
...
Brazil granted an environmental license on
Monday for the construction of a controversial hydroelectric
dam in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. ...
Oneindia
January 31, 2010
"Up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, ...
State College News
January 26, 2010
Name one profound lesson you learned while studying the Amazonian rainforest. In answering this question, my first impulse was to review all the field ...
Spiegel Online
January 26, 2010
For example, there have been significant reductions in deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest. During the climate summit in Copenhagen, Almir Surui, ...
Chicago Tribune
January 26, 2010
Come on, you all, let's show these critters who's boss, and at the same time show those who have caused Amazon rain forest species to go extinct how it's ...
Earthtimes (press release)
January 26, 2010
The Amazon Defense Coalition represents dozens of rainforest communities and five
Indigenous groups that inhabit
Ecuador's Northern Amazon region. ...
Reuters
January 26, 2010
Brazil launched its Amazon Fund last year to promote sustainable development and
scientific research in the world's largest rain forest, with donations from ...
Metroblogging.com (blog)
January 26, 2010
... cuteness comes courtesy of atlanta's excellent center for puppetry
arts. the center is currently running a contest called the amazon rainforest coloring ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
January 26, 2010
Expect to see 30 exotic plants and animals in the amazing Amazon rainforest. An anaconda slithers through the shrubs, bats beat their wings in a glorious ...
North County Times (blog)
January 26, 2010
