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Oil and Gas Exploration Threatens Peruvian Amazon

published February 22, 2010 and has No Comments

A remote indiginious indian camp found abandoned after developers entered their region in Peru. Photo via Agencia Andina In the 1960s and 70s, there was an oil boom in Peru . Due to restrictions on where developers could explore, the hunt for fossil fuels in the cou... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post here: Oil and ...

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Amazon River Water Being Stolen and Bottled Abroad

published February 8, 2010 and has No Comments

Photo via UC Berkeley A recently published report is exposing some shocking exploitation of the Amazon's natural resources --and this times it... Read the full story on TreeHugger More:  Amazon River Water Being Stolen and Bottled Abroad

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Amazon Rainforest Near Tipping Point - IPCC Projections of Decline Validated

published February 4, 2010 and has No Comments

photo: Alexander Torrenegra via flickr. Amazongate was a non-story from the outset, a question of sloppy citations rather than sloppy science. In fact a new piece in Tierraamérica which Mongabay is highlighting validates the original IPCC projection about how much of the Amazon rainforest could ... Read the full story on TreeHugger More: Amazon Rainforest Near Tipping Point - IPCC ...

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‘Amazongate’ is More Sloppy Writing Than Sloppy Science

published February 1, 2010 and has No Comments

Precipitation changes and increased forest fires are still a threat... photo: Ygor Olivera via flickr. Another piece of the 2007 IPCC report is coming under scrutiny. In question is a passage saying that 40% of the Amazon rainforest could be wiped out by climate change . The claim was cited to the WWF report "A Global Review of Forest ...

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Rainforests Destroyed as Fast as a Field of Matches (VIDEO)

published January 19, 2010 and has No Comments

Photo via Greenpeace While the rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest may be declining, it and other rainforests around the world continue to be cleared at an alarming rate. Figures that are quite alarming, like the fact that 17 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been decimated and 74 million hectares of Indonesian forests were completely destroyed, tend ...

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Ecuador’s Plan to Protect the Amazon Gets Deadline, Minister Resigns

published January 13, 2010 and has No Comments

Fander Falconi, Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador. Photo: Reuters . Fander Falconí, Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador, has resigned due to differences with president Rafael Correa in the issue of the country's plan to protect the Yasuni reservation at the Amazon forest . The president of Ecuador has also set a deadline for the project. If expectations not ...

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School for Shamans to Save Culture from Extinction

published January 10, 2010 and has No Comments

Photo via Mongabay While environmental groups and governmental policies are aiming at reducing deforestation and development in the Amazon rainforest to help preserve the world's most diverse terrestrial ecosystem, traditional See the original post: School for Shamans to Save Culture from Extinction

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School for Shamans to Save Culture from Extinction

published January 10, 2010 and has No Comments

Photo via Mongabay While environmental groups and governmental policies are aiming at reducing deforestation and development in the Amazon rainforest to help preserve the world's most diverse terrestrial ecosystem, traditional Go here to see the original: School for Shamans to Save Culture from Extinction

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Species Must Run From Global Warming to Survive

published December 29, 2009 and has No Comments

Photo via HummingLion Designs As global temperatures rise , species across the world will have to, quite literally, run to stay alive. According to the latest research , 28.8% of the biomes of the earth will need to migrate at a rate greater than 1 kilometer per year to escape the heat, which is intensifying in a gradient band ...

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Deforestation Increased as World Prepared for COP15

published December 27, 2009 and has No Comments

Photo via Greenpeace During COP15 earlier this month, Brazil stood out among developing nations for its bold commitments to curbing carbon emissions and reducing deforestation of the Amazon rainforest--and was perhaps the most More here:  Deforestation Increased as World Prepared for COP15

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