Rainforest

PHOTOS: 8 Surprising 'Inside-Out' Attractions

Conde Nast Traveler | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Outdoor, America, World, Activities, Rainforest, Park, Travel, Skydiving, Mountain, Skiing, Desert, Attractions, Theme Park, Indoor, Snow, Vacation, Museum, Slidepollajax, Conde Nast Traveler, Family, Active Travel, Adventure Travel, Travel News

Ray Bradbury once wrote about an indoor dreamworld, the sun dome -- a giant spa and cafeteria centered around one giant, burning star. These attractions are similar -- and actually exist.

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Orangutan Emergency in Indonesia: The Edge of Extinction

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Orangutan, Indonesia, Palm Oil, Cargill, Rainforest, Forests, Extinction, Tripa Rainforest, Orangutan Indonesia, Tripa Peat Swamp Forests, Orangutan Extinction, Sustainable Palm Oil, Green News

The extinction of the world's great apes, taking place in remote rainforests and seemingly out of our control, is much closer than you might imagine -- and the solution is nearer still.

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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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PHOTOS: Touring The Caribbean's Best Highways

Dwight Brown | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Casinos, Church, Caribbean, Shopping, Rainforest, Surfing, Tennis, Cuisine, Hotels, Golf, Highways, Ecology, Restaurants, Beaches, Museums, Nature, Vacation, Slidepollajax, Road Trips, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Sometimes Puerto Rico feels like a Caribbean island, other times more like America's 51st state.

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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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'Green News Report' - February 9, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Economy, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Republicans, Innovation, Solar Energy; Peak Oil, Whales, Gregory Jaczko, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Polyurethane, Plastic, Newt Gingrich, Rainforest, Ecuador, Rick Santorum, Science, Seaweed, Glaciers, Green Jobs, Fracking, Himalayas, Louisiana, Rising Sea Level, Fukushima, Wind Energy, Eminent Domain, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Santorum ...

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Development Barred In Puerto Rico Coastal Strip

AP | By DANICA COTO | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Rainforest, Video, El-Yunque-Rainforest, Northeast Ecological Corridor, Rainforest, Puerto Rico Coast, Latino Voices News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A lush region along Puerto Rico's north coast will be off-limits to developers until a lawsuit filed by conservationists is r...

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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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An Eco-Friendly Christmas Tree

Richard Schiffman | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Rainforest, Third World, Christmas Trees, Deforestation, Rainforest Destruction, Sustainable Christmas Trees, Eco-Friendly Christmas Trees, Christmas Tree Farms, China Christmas Trees, Green News

Over half of Americans who put Christmas trees up use the artificial variety, which do not shed needles, and which many perceive to be an eco-friendly alternative to cutting living trees. Others dispute this.

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Inside a Colombian Rainforest Sawmill (PHOTOS)

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Sawmills, Photography, Photos, Rainforest, Colombia, Tumaco, Exposure, Deforestation, Green News

In 2010, photographer Jan Sochor spent time capturing the work of sawmill workers at a processing plant in Tumaco on the banks of a Pacific jungle riv...

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Saving The Rainforest By 'Going Beyond' Fair Trade

HuffingtonPost.com | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Natural Resources, Eliot Logan-Hines, Rainforest, Ecuador, Eliot Logan-Hines Rainforest, Greatest Person of the Day, Good News, Deforestation, Runa Foundation, Fair Trade, Amazon, Ecuador Rainforest, Guayusa, Impact News

Eliot Logan-Hines promised himself he'd save the rainforest at just 6 years old. "I remember watching this creek behind my house [in Austin, Texas...

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How Would The Rainforest Handle Alzheimer's Disease?

April L. Bogle | Posted 10.06.2011

Read More: Alzheimer's Disease, Rainforest, New Old Age, Costa Rica, Nursing Homes, Alzheimer's, Medicare, Medicaid, Old Age, Healthy Living News

It's simply unnatural to encourage old people to live on well past their functionality; I'm convinced of this now more than ever since I returned from...

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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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Barbie Accused Of Being a 'Serial Killer'

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Mattel, Barbie, Video, Weird News, Indonesia, Activism, Rainforest, Crime, Barbie Dolls, Weird California, Los Angeles News, Green Living, Mattel-Deforestation, Greenpeace, Weird News News

An environmental organization has accused Barbie, the world's most popular doll, of being a sadistic serial killer. According to Greenpeace, the 52...

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Rainforest Destruction Drops 25 Percent: Report

Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Save the Rainforest, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, Good News, Rainforest, Rainforest Destruction, Food and Agriculture Organization, Video, Green News

There's reason to breathe easier. Rainforest destruction in the word's largest rainforests plunged by 25 percent over the last decade, according to...

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The Deal We Dare Not Turn Down: Save This Rainforest, or Trigger Our Destruction

Johann Hari | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Oil Rigs, Rising Sea Levels, Natural Resources, Rainforest, Ecuador, Biodiversity, Rafael Correa, Save the Rainforest, Digging for Oil, Oil Reserves, Global Warming, Mass Extinction, Green News

Ecuador's government says that if the rest of the world offers just half of what the oil beneath their rainforest is worth -- $3.5 billion -- they will keep the rainforest standing and alive and working for us all.

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Amazon Watch Brings the Fight To Chevron's Doorstep

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Ecuador, Human Rights, Chevron, Big Oil, Rainforest, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Amazon, Indigenous People, Green News

Cross-posted from Causes.com Today Amazon Watch, in partnership with the Rainforest Action Network, brought 3 Ecuadorian community activists to the U...

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Nicaragua's Beauty

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Photography, Cathedral, Nicaragua, Rainforest, World Photos, Volcano, Slidepollajax, Travel News

Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America, with a size comparable to Greece. It has a tremendous mix of natural beauty and historical sites.

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The Sacred and the Dead

Robert Koehler | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Sacred, Bolivia, Ecology, Rainforest, Pachamama, Indigenous People, Global Warming, Bolivia Law of Mother Earth, Green News

The Bolivian national legislature may be about to birth a stunning global precedent in the creation of an environmentally sane future: establishing legal rights for Mother Earth.

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An Earth Day Letter to Michelle Obama: Save the Sumatran Tigers

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Orangutans, Sumatran Tiger, Rainforest Action Network, Girl Scouts, Indonesia, Rainforest, Girl Scouts USA, Green News

This Earth Day, Rainforest Action Network is asking Michelle Obama to help protect endangered Sumatran tigers by encouraging Girl Scouts USA to acknowledge its role in the fate of these magnificent animals.

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Entering Sloth Country: The Best of Ecotourism in Costa Rica (PHOTOS)

Clare Richardson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raccoons, Rain Forests, Rainforest, Costa Rica, Slidepollajax, Eco Tourism, Vacation, Travel, Animals, Sloths, Monkeys, Iguanas, National Parks, Wildlife, Travel News

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I Am the Lorax, And So Are You: Five Reasons to Love Forests

Todd Paglia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate, Rainforest, Oxygen, Water, Health, Boreal Forest, Green, Environment, United States, Green Living, Forests, Canada, The Lorax, Green News

In terms of battling climate change, forests are tough to beat: they're not waiting for government seed funding or venture capital for research; they don't require a senate supermajority.

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Best Spas for 2011

Departures Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: St Lucia, Eco-Travel, Unesco, Rainforest, Costa Rica, Travel, Israel, Wellness, Spas, Slidepollajax, Best Spas in the World, Best Spas, Best Spas 2011, Travel News

With impeccable service, singular treatments and gorgeous surroundings, each of these nine spas has an edge that sets it apart from the rest.

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Rainforest, USA

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tongass Forest, Sierra Club, John Muir, Rainforest Action Network, Rainforests, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforest, Green News

Everybody knows about the great tropical rainforests in the Amazon, Southeast Asia, and central Africa. But it's not the location that makes a rainforest

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