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PHOTOS: Strange Mayan Glyphs Yield Their Secrets

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Glyphs, Video, Ancient Mayan, Xultun, Guatemala, Slideexpand, Maya, Archaeology, Mayan Calendar, Mayan Glyphs, Rain Forest, Science News

"For the first time we get to see what may be actual records kept by a scribe, whose job was to be official record keeper of a Maya community. It's li...

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Prehistoric Camel Was Bizarre Beast, Newly Unearthed Fossils Show

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Camel, Vertebrate Paleontology, Prehistoric, Video, Panama Canal, University of Florida, Species, Panama, Rain Forest, Science News

MIAMI -- Researchers scratching in the sediment during the historic expansion of the Panama Canal say they have discovered the fossils of a small came...

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Rare And Super-Smelly, Gigantic Corpse Flower Set To Bloom

Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Video, Sumatra, Corpse Flower, Botany, Amorphophallus Titanum, Rain Forest, Cornell, Science News

By: Brett Israel Published: 03/13/2012 06:53 PM EDT on OurAmazingPlanet A rare corpse flower is expected to roll down its blood-red skirt and un...

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May We Suggest a Pinot With That Redwood Forest?

Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Sonoma County, Winery vs Forest, Pacific Premier, Environment, Wine, Vineyards, Pinot Noir, Napa, Deforestation, Redwoods, Northern California, Trees, Rain Forest, Artesa, Codorniu, Green News
Lorraine Devon Wilke

Wine drinkers the world over simply can't get enough of the California Pinot grape and so Napa vineyards came up with the proposal to deforest pristine acres of majestic Redwoods and Douglas Firs in the small town of Annapolis, CA.

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Brazil Trial In US Nun Killing Delayed

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dorothy Stang, Nun, Nun Killing, Rain Forest, Rain Forest Preservation, Rain Forest Activist, Religion News

BELEM, Brazil — A Brazilian court has delayed the trial of a rancher accused of ordering the murder of U.S. nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stan...

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Flutterbies in the Peruvian Amazon

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iquitos, Peru, Morphos Butterflies, World, Butterflies, Travel, South America, Amazon, Rain Forest, Home News
Lea Lane

The Amazon River is a swirling, branching force in the Peruvian jungle, midway from where it first sweeps from a trickle in the Andes and swoops towar...

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Copenhagen Climate Talks Near Deal On Preservation Of Forests

New York Times | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Copenhagen 2009, Agriculture, Obama, Rainforests, Peat Soil, Rain Forest, Environmental Defense Fund, Reducing Emissions From Deforestation, White House, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide, Un, Deforestation, Global Warming, Green News

COPENHAGEN -- Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other natu...

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Team Earth: Are You In?

Harrison Ford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Automobiles, Tropical Deforestation, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Harrison Ford, Environment, Airplanes, Deforestation, Team Earth, Trucks, Rain Forest, Green News
Harrison Ford

Team Earth is issuing an urgent, immediate challenge by teaming up with the Prince's Rainforest Project to call for swift action and funding to reduce tropical deforestation.

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Venezuelan Rain Forest Tribe Charges Government With Neglect

The New York Times | Simon Romero | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yanomami, Hugo Chávez, Venezuela, Amazon Rain Forest, New Tribes, Malaria, Missionaries, Rain Forest, Green News

PUERTO AYACUCHO, Venezuela -- Three years after President Hugo Chávez expelled American missionaries from the Venezuelan Amazon, accusing them of usi...

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World Bank Still Not Lending With Environment (And Disasters) In Mind: Report

DotEarth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Revkin, Rainforest, World Bank, Environment, The Burning Season, Amazon, Rain Forest, Green News

Back in 1989, when I spent four months scouring the road-laced reaches of the western Amazon researching my first book, The Burning Season, I learned ...

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