Tagged with Amazon 
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Brazil’s Lula vows to slow rate of Amazon deforestation 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday he will offer to reduce the pace of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rain forest by 80 percent by 2020 when he attends December's global climate talks in Copenhagen.
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Trampling the rainforest
Greenpeace: your boots are made for climate change 3
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
According to Greenpeace, the cattle trade is still taking down vast swaths of the Brazilian rainforest. And it's not just the global appetite for beef that's driving the process.
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In the game or on the sidelines?
Northwest businesses weigh in—or bow out—on energy policy 1
Posted 6 months ago
This fall, Northwest-based global businesses Nike and Starbucks led a group of consumer brands to publicly champion muscular, science-based climate and energy policies. But where are all the other Northwest companies on climate policy? Amazon? Microsoft? Boeing?
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Cocaine production threatens Peruvian rainforest 2
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago -
Prince Charles introduces his rainforests project 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago -
Amazon Drain Forest
Drought threatens Amazon, speeds global warming: study 0
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Khosla’s letter to Science backfires 6
Posted 1 year ago -
Bad news for climate change 9
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago -
Brazil Nuts
Amazon deforestation soars, Brazil blames its own land-reform agency 4
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago -
Satellite images show rapid deforestation in Papua New Guinea and Amazon 6
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago -
Say goodbye to the lungs of the earth 11
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago -
To Preserve and Protect
Vermont-sized area of Amazon may be protected 17
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago -
At Least He'll Be Better Than Ours
Brazil swears in new environment minister 0
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago -
Silva Buckle
Brazil’s pro-rainforest environment minister resigns 5
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago -
Cries on the Prize
Chevron throws hissy fit that anti-Chevron activists received award 5
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago -
Trying to Rubber the Right Way
Brazil aims to protect Amazon by using sustainably harvested rubber in condoms 1
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago -
Razing, a Riot
Brazil seizes huge load of illegal Amazon timber after riots 1
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago -
On a Clear-Cut Day, You Can Seed Forever
Brazil unveils plan to slow deforestation and soy cultivation in Amazon 2
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago -
Living in Deforest 0
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago -
Dios Mio
Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi Palacios battles for an intact Amazon 1
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago