published June 7, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: Screenshot, Ecosia.org Green search engine Ecosia was already making waves at its first birthday, by which point it had contributed $160,000 to WWF's Jureuena rainforest project in Brazil. Now, six months later, the search engine (which is powered by Bing) has raised $334,202.63 for the rainforest, and that number keeps climbing.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published February 14, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: Chevron in Ecuador It's been a long battle : people of the Ecuadorean Amazon against Chevron, which is accused of dumping more than 18 billion gallons of toxic waste sludge into the Amazon, leaving people sick with cancer and suffering miscarriages and birth defects. But the BBC reports that, after a lawsuit lasting nearly 20 years, a court ...
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published December 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Stephen Messenger Over the past several years, the Brazilian government has been tackling deforestation in the Amazon with vigor, and it seems all their efforts are paying off. In an announcement made today, Brazil confirmed that the rate of forest loss over the last year represents the lowest in over two decades since record-keeping began -- and down ...
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published November 26, 2010 and has No Comments
"Lose the animals, lose the ecosystems. Lose the ecosystems, game over." Caroline Fraser touched down in more than a dozen countries to understand what rewilding really means. Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution looks at how this radical approach is being put to work, pulling endangered species back from the brink, relinking critical habitats, and keeping the ...
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published November 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: heatherlyone / CC Each year thousands of tourists flock to see one of the Amazon's most breathtaking natural wonders -- the spot where two great rivers collide, mixing their different colored waters to form the behemoth Amazon river . But the future of this remarkable place, known as The Meeting of Waters (or Encontro das Águas ) is ...
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published October 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: AFP In places throughout the Amazon , some stretches of the region's most important rivers and tributaries have dried up almost entirely, reducing the normally flowing waterways to a vast plain of broken clay and mud. For some people who live and work in this part of the world , life has come to a screeching halt amid ...
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published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Leo Freitas via flickr According to preliminary data from Brazilian NGO Imazon and Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 16% over the past twelve months, with 1,488 square kilometers (574 square miles) of forest cleared. All that tree felling resulted in 95.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published August 28, 2010 and has No Comments
Image Credit: broddi via Flickr In the months since "Avatar" struck major environmental themes while banking nearly $3 billion, James Cameron, an avid environmentalist, has been very busy. He's been bringing his celebrity to fight the oil and coal industries and
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James Cameron Hits the Amazon To Stop the Belo Monte Dam (Video)
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published August 8, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Carol Laiate Traveling through the heart of the Brazilian Amazon , one might expect to run across many strange and fascinating things -- but an American ghost town probably wouldn't be one of them. Yet deep in the world's largest rainforest lies the abandoned remnants of Fordlândia , a remote US-style factory... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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published July 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Tourists meet Tortoise. Credit Brian Merchant Yesterday Brian wrote Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List , concluding: If anything, the problems have only grown more complex and fundamental -- there's now a growing island population that must learn to live sustainably with severely limited resources, and a bevy of threats from other invasive species remain at large. Three ...
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