Amazon Rainforest

Brazilian President Vetoes Parts Of Controversial Rainforest Law

AP | By BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Brazil Amazon Deforestation, Brazil Environment, Brazil Environmental Policy, Dilma Rousseff, Brazil, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Environmental Activists, Brazil Environmental Activists, World News

SAO PAULO -- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used a line-item veto Friday to send back parts of a congressional bill that loosened the nation's ben...

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Young Dinosaur Hunter Secures Funds To Begin Search For Giant Reptiles

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 05.18.2012

Stephen McCullah needed to raise $26,700 by May 11 in order to secure enough funds through Kickstarter.com to, well, kickstart his expedition to the R...

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Clean Water in the Amazon!

Mitch Anderson | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Rainforest, Water Relief, Oil, Green Solutions, Indigenous Rights, Ecuador, Rainwater Harvesting, Big Oil, Water Pollution, Clean Water, Environmental Contamination, Water, Rainwater Catchment, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron, Video, Green News

Chevron is guilty of massive environmental crimes in the Amazon, but has chosen to spend millions on lobbyists, lawyers and PR firms instead of paying for a clean up of its mess.

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Oil Company's Plans for 'Uncontacted' Tribe's Land

David Hill | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Peru, Uncontacted Tribes, Amazon Watch, Oil Company, Perenco, Survival International, Aidesep, Amazon Rainforest, World News

On March 17, the Peruvian newspaper La Region published an article about an Anglo-French oil company, Perenco, and its plans to pump oil in an area kn...

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Is This Google Street View's Most Exotic Location Yet?

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Google, Video, Google Amazon, Street View Amazon, World Forest Day 2012, Amazon Rainforest, Google Street View, Google Street View Amazon, Amazon Street View, Google Amazon Street View, Amazon, Amazon Rainforest Street View, Technology News

Google has already expanded its Street View service to give the Internet awesome views of Stone Henge, Antartica, and ancient Japanese caves. Now, on ...

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'They're Going To Kill Me': Amazon Activist Lives In Fear Of Gangs

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Loggers, Amazon Logging, Rainforest, Brazil, Logging, Amazon Rainforest, Publica, Amazon, Video, World News

By Ana Aranha, Publica. An activist leader in the Amazon won protection from Brazil's National Security Force, but continues to live under threat. ...

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Protecting Indigenous Cultures From Unwanted Global Development

Nina Wegner | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Amazon Rainforest, Peru, Impact News, Activism, Mashco-Piro, Uncontacted Tribe, Impact News

A recent image of the Mashco Piro in Peru. (© D.Cortijo/www.uncontactedtribes.org) When development encroaches onto native lands where it is not we...

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Code Red for Brazil's Forests

Carter Roberts | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Amazon Rainforest, Forests, Rainforest, Deforestation, Brazil, Amazon, Green News

The nation of Brazil has established itself as a global environmental leader in conserving forests, managing natural resources and taking steps to solve climate change. Now, amendments to Brazil's long-standing Forest Code place that legacy in jeopardy.

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The New Brazilian Forest Code: A Product of Political Consensus

Kátia Abreu | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Environmentalism, Amazon Rainforest, Rainforest, Brazil, World News

The result of a broad and democratic debate, Brazil's new Forest Code is widely supported by the government and the majority of Congress, both of which act as representatives for the urban and rural populations of Brazil.

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Amazon Rainforest Loss At Lowest In 23 Years, Brazil Says

Reuters | Posted 02.05.2012

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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon region fell to its lowest in 23 years in the year through July, the government said Monday, attr...

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WATCH: Investigation Of Activist Couple Murdered In Brazil

Posted 11.28.2011

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Who killed Zé Cláudio Ribeiro and Maria do Espirito Santo? A recent episode of VICE's "Toxic" series explores the brutal murder of the married anti-...

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Protesters End Occupation Of Dam Site In Brazil After Judge Orders Their Eviction

AP | By STAN LEHMAN | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Xingu River, Video, Belo Monte Dam Occupation, Belo Monte Protests, Belo Monte Dam, Brazil, Amazon Rainforest, Belo Monte Dam Protests, Amazon, Xingu Dam, Green News

SAO PAULO -- Hundreds of protesters have ended their occupation of the construction site of one the world's largest hydroelectric dams, Indian rights ...

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Writing Your Bucket List? Check Out Our 'Must-Dos'

The Huffington Post | Evan Allis | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Carnaval, Antarctica, Things to Do Before You Die, Bucket List, Marathon, Burning Man, Skydiving, Amazon Rainforest, Huey Long, Fifty News

In 1935, as he lay dying from an assassin's bullet at the age of 42, Senator Huey Long whispered his final words on the steps of a Louisiana courthous...

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WATCH: Searching The Amazon For Uncontacted, Unconquered Tribes

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 12.18.2011

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After receiving his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine, an article about the efforts of a Brazilian activist named Sydney Possuelo to p...

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Mick's Bow And Arrow: Jagger Named Tourism Ambassador To Amazon

Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: The Rolling Stones, South America, Peru, Mick Jagger, Global Pulse, Amazon Rainforest, The Amazon, Rolling Stones, Gotta See This, Amazon, Video, Travel News

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has been named an honorary ambassador for tourism to the Amazon rainforest by the Peruvian government, which has a...

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10 Fascinating Forbidding Places

ShermansTravel | Posted 11.29.2011

The same impulse that drew 16th-century explorers into uncharted oceans may compel today's intrepid travelers to ignore State Department travel warnings.

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British Couple Rescued After Motor Home Fell Into Amazonian Ravine

AP | By STAN LEHMAN | Posted 11.22.2011

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SAO PAULO -- A British couple were rescued unhurt Wednesday, one day after their motor home fell into a ravine in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, official...

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How Much Will It Cost To Save The Amazon Rainforest?

Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Center for International Forestry Research, Bolsa Floresta, Save Trees, Amazon Economics, Rainforest Protection, Nature, Environment, Amazon Rainforest, Conservation Cost, Redd, Amazon Protection, Green News

From Daniel Cooney of Center for International Forestry Research blog: JUMA RESERVE, Brazil -- Would $33 a month do? That is the amount a project i...

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Would You Trust Management Consultants With the World's Rainforests? Our Governments Have -- Disastrously

Johann Hari | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Mckinsey, Guinea, Rainforest, David Cameron, Amazon Rainforest, Congo, Rainforest Destruction, Deforestation, Greenpeace, Management Consulting, Green News

Management consultants have now been, in effect, tasked with setting the future of the world's rainforests -- and they are facing accusations that they are using our money to draw up plans that will result in their more rapid destruction.

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PHOTOS: 'Beginning Of The End' For The Amazon

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Xingu River, Belo Monte Dam Project, Belo Monte Dam, Environment, Brazil Amazon, Amazon Rainforest, Brazilian Amazon, Green News

From Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier: It is a bitter loss. The wild river that along its lengthy journey gives life to so much and so many will be t...

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Ecuador's El Oriente -- Another Paradise Lost?

Dorian de Wind | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Environment, Ecuador, Oil Industry, Amazon Rainforest, Ecology, Biodiversity, Chevron, Shell, Texaco, ITT Initiative, Ecuador-President-Rafael-Correa, Oriente, World News

Underneath the lush Ecuadorean rain forest lie some of the country's largest oil deposits, Ecuador's principal export and one of its most important sources of revenue -- a resource that has been both a blessing and a curse

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A Journey to the Amazon Basin of Peru

Tucker Hassler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Piranha, Medicinal Plants, Iquitos, Peru, National Geographic, Rainforest, Yacumama Lodge, Salmon River Outfitters, Healing, Vacations, Amazon Rainforest, Travel News

I peer out the window of our Boeing 757 and see nothing but unyielding darkness. It's a strange dichotomy, considering we're about to land in a place teaming with more life than anywhere on the planet.

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Big Sur, California: Camping at Fernwood Resort

Christine Buckley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Camping, Elephant Seals, Road Trip, Big Sur, Fernwood Resort, Kelp, Coastal Redwoods, Big Sur River, Amazon Rainforest, Travel News

I love camping. I've even camped in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. This time around, however, I needed a more gentle camping experience -- my dog and I were doing it by ourselves.

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Amazon Once Held As Many As 20 Million People, Scientists Believe

Washington Post | Juan Forero | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ancient Civilization, Canals, Marajo Island, Amazon River, Dark Earth, Amazon Rainforest, Anna C. Roosevelt, Terra Preta, Archaeology, Orchards, Societies, Indigenous People, San Martin De Samiria, Technology News

Archaeologists, many of them Americans, say the opposite is true: This patch of forest, and many others across the Amazon, was instead home to an adva...

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Google Earth Animation of Brazil's Disastrous Dam Accompanies "Avatar" Re-Release

Patrick McCully | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sigourney Weaver, Belo-Monte-Dam, Google Earth, Dams, Avatar, Brazil, James Cameron, Amazon Watch, Hydropower, Amazon Rainforest, International Rivers, Amazon, Amazon River, Green News

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government wants to build a massive, nasty dam called Belo Monte. The hydropower plant has long been at t...

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