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Brazil Nuts
Amazon deforestation soars, Brazil blames its own land-reform agency |
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30 Sep 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:38 PM on 30 Sep 2008 The 100 individuals or companies most responsible for Amazon deforestation since 2005 were listed Monday by Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc, and Brazil's own land-reform agency took the top spot. The Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform was said to be culpable for the deforestation of 850 square miles of Amazon rainforest in the last three years. Everyone on the ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, news, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Trying to Rubber the Right Way
Brazil aims to protect Amazon by using sustainably harvested rubber in condoms |
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08 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:53 AM on 08 Apr 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Hard up for ways to preserve the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government has announced it's opening a condom factory that will use rubber harvested sustainably from the imperiled rainforest -- no tree-chopping required. The latex will come from the Chico Mendes reserve, named for a well-known Amazon activist gunned down by ranching ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, health, news, sex (all these topics) |
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Razing, a Riot
Brazil seizes huge load of illegal Amazon timber after riots |
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25 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 6:50 AM on 25 Feb 2008 Brazilian troops and police seized about 500 truckloads of illegal hardwood timber from the Amazon rainforest over the weekend, following riots and protests by sawmill workers and others that had forced out environmental inspectors earlier in the week. After the inspectors were driven out, they came back days later with over 450 troops to confiscate illegal timber that the government has ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, news, rainforests (all these topics) |
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On a Clear-Cut Day, You Can Seed Forever
Brazil unveils plan to slow deforestation and soy cultivation in Amazon |
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25 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:49 AM on 25 Jan 2008 Following Brazil's recent announcement of a dramatic rise in Amazon deforestation in the country in the last months of 2007, the country this week announced new plans to try to slow the destruction. Plans include tapping the army to conduct inspections of known problem areas and keep deforested land from being cultivated or used for pasture, fining me ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, news (all these topics) |
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We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust!
Brazilian cops crack down on Amazon logging gang |
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27 Oct 2005 |
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| We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust! Brazilian cops crack down on Amazon logging gang In a burst of dawn raids, Brazilian police busted an Amazon logging gang yesterday. Some 400 agents fanned out across five Amazon states and arrested at least 34 people accused of forging and selling permits that facilitated the transport of millions of dollars worth of illegally logged hardwood timber. It marked the ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, news (all these topics) |
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Beyond a Reasonable Drought
Massive Amazon drought may be linked to warm Atlantic waters |
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12 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Beyond a Reasonable Drought Massive Amazon drought may be linked to warm Atlantic waters With the Amazon rainforest suffering its worst drought in a half-century, Brazil has declared a state of emergency in the hardest-hit area. Some scientists speculate that warmer North Atlantic waters -- the same factor driving the intense Atlantic hurricane season -- are causing more air to rise, and that the rising air is offset b ... |
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Soy Triste
Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up |
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19 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Soy Triste Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up More than 10,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest disappeared from Brazil in 2004, the second-highest level of deforestation ever recorded, thanks mainly to the expansion of soy farming. As U.S.-state comparisons are de rigueur in these stories: that's an area the size of Massachusetts. Though Brazil's government imp ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, logging, news, rainforests (all these topics) |
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