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Amazon deforestation surges
Bad news for climate change |
Tom Philpott |
01 Oct 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In August alone, loggers and farm interests leveled 300 square miles of Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government reports (via AP). That's a land mass larger than greater Chicago -- taken out in the span of a single month. It also represents a leap of 228 percent over August 2007's destruction. Two observations: 1) Higher soy prices accelerate Amazon clearance (see Searchinger, et al, "Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emission ... |
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| Topics: climate, rainforests, biofuels, Amazon, Brazil, deforestation (all these topics) |
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Brazil Nuts
Amazon deforestation soars, Brazil blames its own land-reform agency |
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30 Sep 2008 |
News |
| 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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Tropical rainforests: From bad to worse
Satellite images show rapid deforestation in Papua New Guinea and Amazon |
Joseph Romm |
01 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The following post is by Ken Levenson, guest blogger at Climate Progress. Pushed from center stage by the expected record arctic ice and permafrost melt, tropical rain forest destruction has been elbowing its way back through the smoke and into view. This Mongabay article, 'Papua New Guinea's rainforests disappearing faster than thought,' is one such look: Previously, the forest loss was estimated at 139,000 hectares per year between 1990 and 2005. But now ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, climate, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, Papua New Guinea, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Say goodbye to the lungs of the earth
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JMG |
09 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Amazon deforestation exploding. The agrofuels lobby assures us that it has nothing to do with them. |
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| Topics: Amazon, climate, deforestation (all these topics) |
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To Preserve and Protect
Vermont-sized area of Amazon may be protected |
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06 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:51 AM on 06 Jun 2008 Brazil's president has unveiled plans to protect a large area of the Amazon rainforest, after weeks of mutterings that the country has insufficient protections in place. The proposal by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would create three protected reserves for a total area the size of Vermont; the plan still has to be approved by Brazil's Congress. Amazon deforestation is on the rise, and w ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, habitat protection, news, rainforests (all these topics) |
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At Least He'll Be Better Than Ours
Brazil swears in new environment minister |
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28 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:01 PM on 28 May 2008 Carlos Minc was sworn in as Brazil's environment minister on Tuesday. Minc succeeds Marina Silva, who quit after six years of uphill battling to protect the Amazon rainforest from development. Greens are cautiously optimistic about Minc, who was a founder of Brazil's Green Party, a former environment secretary in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and one of 500 winners of a 1989 United Natio ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, international politics, news, politics, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Silva Buckle
Brazil's pro-rainforest environment minister resigns |
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13 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:05 PM on 13 May 2008 Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva resigned Tuesday after six years in office, leading a Greenpeace campaigner to lament that "Brazil is losing the only voice in the government that spoke out for the environment." Silva's policies prioritized environmental protection, particularly for the Amazon; while her policies landed her a spot as one of Grist's fave green politicians, they ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, international politics, news, politics, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Cries on the Prize
Chevron throws hissy fit that anti-Chevron activists received award |
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15 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:48 AM on 15 Apr 2008 Chevron is throwing a hissy fit over the Goldman Environmental Prize awarded to two Ecuadorian activists who want the oil company to clean up pollution in the Amazon rain forest. Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron in 2001, dumped 18.5 billion gallons of petrochemical waste in the Amazon between 1972 and 1992. Lawyer Pablo Fajardo and community organizer Luis Yanza won the G ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Big Oil, Ecuador, energy, grassroots activism, heroes, litigation, news, oil, rainforests, water pollution (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 |
News |
| 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 |
News |
| 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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Living in Deforest
Amazon land settlement said to increase deforestation |
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23 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Living in Deforest Amazon land settlement said to increase deforestation The Brazilian government is looking into accusations that sketchy sustainable-development deals may have led to increased logging in the Amazon rainforest. After an eight-month investigation, Greenpeace has reported that Brazil's national land-reform agency housed thousands of poor families in rainforest areas valuable to the timber industry, then looked ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation (all these topics) |
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Dios Mio
Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi Palacios battles for an intact Amazon |
Michelle Nijhuis |
25 Apr 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Julio Cusurichi Palacios. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Peruvian Amazon is one of the most remote places in the world. In its wildest corners, in the Madre de Dios region along the Brazilian border, some indigenous communities continue to live far from modern society. But their solitude is eroding: Loggers are pushing deeper into the forest, searching for increasingly rare s ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, heroes, logging, Peru (all these topics) |
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Don't Make Me Pull This Cargill Over
Amazon soy export plant shut down in win for environmentalists |
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28 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Don't Make Me Pull This Cargill Over Amazon soy export plant shut down in win for environmentalists Greens did a victory dance this weekend as Brazil forced U.S. agribiz giant Cargill to close a soy export terminal in the country's Amazon region. The facility has long been the focus of a targeted Greenpeace campaign protesting rapid deforestation of the tropical rainforest -- which lost about 6,5 ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Big Ag, deforestation, food and agriculture, news (all these topics) |
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If You Blog It, They Will Come
A 21st-century gold rush hits the Brazilian Amazon |
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05 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| If You Blog It, They Will Come A 21st-century gold rush hits the Brazilian Amazon Our fair city of Seattle was once a gold rush town, a way station for loading up on supplies and sex before heading to the Yukon. So we feel an affinity for the mud-caked prospectors combing a remote stretch of Brazilian rainforest in hopes of finding nuggets worth $530 an ounce. We feel pangs of recognition when we hear that the ma ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, mining and drilling, news (all these topics) |
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There'll Always Be an England ... in Brazil
Vast new rainforest reserve unveiled in Brazilian Amazon |
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04 Dec 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| There'll Always Be an England ... in Brazil Vast new rainforest reserve unveiled in Brazilian Amazon The Brazilian Amazon will soon be home to the world's largest tropical-rainforest reserve, in news that's making conservationists beam -- and making us feel better about all those pints of Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch we ate to help the cause. The vast tract -- which, at 63,320 square miles, is larger than Eng ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, land stewardship, news (all these topics) |
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Soycott
Big soy companies pledge not to source from recently deforested Amazon |
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25 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Soycott Big soy companies pledge not to source from recently deforested Amazon Now for some Amazon news that won't make you want to slit your wrists: Soy producers operating in Brazil -- including U.S. agribiz giants Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland -- announced yesterday that they will put a two-year stop to buying soybeans grown in recently deforested areas of the Amazon. They also said they won't bu ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, business, deforestation, Greenpeace, news (all these topics) |
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Maybe I'm Amazoned at the Way I Really Need You
Drought could turn Amazon into desert, researchers warn |
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25 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Maybe I'm Amazoned at the Way I Really Need You Drought could turn Amazon into desert, researchers warn The Amazon rainforest -- soon to be called The Artist Formerly Known as the Amazon Rainforest, and then just some weird little symbol -- appears to be undergoing a second year of drought, and that has researchers seriously alarmed. Starting in 2002, scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center simulated drought on a small s ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, desertification, news (all these topics) |
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Vegetarians Are Ruining the Planet
Cargill pushes soy farming that's obliterating the Amazon |
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18 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Vegetarians Are Ruining the Planet Cargill pushes soy farming that's obliterating the Amazon Soy production has overtaken logging and cattle ranching as the main source of Amazon rainforest destruction. In the past three years, nearly 27,000 square miles of the Amazon have been destroyed, nearly three-quarters of it illegally. Much of the acreage was sold to soy producers, financed in large part by agribu ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, deforestation, food and agriculture, news (all these topics) |
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The Artful Roger
Roger Mustalish, Amazon researcher and protector, answers readers' questions |
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05 May 2006 |
InterActivist |
| Roger Mustalish, head of ACEER. Can you describe an animal from the Amazon ecosystem and another animal from the Andes ecosystem whose status illustrates a particular environmental threat to those regions? -- Mark Stephen Caponigro, New York, N.Y. Globally, including in the tropics, we are losing amphibians at an alarming rate; many species are headed to extinction. Other than habitat los ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, Peru, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Roger That
Roger Mustalish, Amazon researcher and protector, answers Grist's questions |
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01 May 2006 |
InterActivist |
| Roger Mustalish. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm president of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit with offices in West Chester, Penn., and in Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado, Peru. What does your organization do? ACEER's mission is to promote environmental conservation by being a catalyst for awareness, understanding, act ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, Peru, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Pará for the Course
Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva fights illegal logging in the Amazon |
Michelle Nijhuis |
28 Apr 2006 |
Main Dish |
| In the northern Brazilian state of Pará, where the mouth of the Amazon cuts into the continent, illegal logging, industrial farming, and a human-driven cycle of massive wildfires are destroying the tropical forests. Since he was a teenager, Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva has considered it his mission to help protect these forests, and the isolated communities that live within them. Tarcí ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging (all these topics) |
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Bungle in the Jungle
Critics say Peru pipeline is an accident waiting to happen |
Kelly Hearn |
26 Apr 2006 |
Main Dish |
| The boat ride down southeastern Peru's Urubamba River cuts through mountains and sweltering jungle, passing wooden shacks of colonos -- mixed race and grindingly poor Peruvians lured to the jungle with promises of free land -- and nativos, tribes recently brought into contact with the modern world. The area is a biological gold mine, home to endemic and rare species, and some of the world's ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, energy, oil, Peru (all these topics) |
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I'm Wreckin' It
Greenpeace investigation links European fast food to Amazon destruction |
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10 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| I'm Wreckin' It Greenpeace investigation links European fast food to Amazon destruction Which came first, Chicken McNuggets or deforestation? A recent Greenpeace investigation has uncovered the depressing answer: the McDonald's supply chain begins with felled rainforest. Much of the chicken gobbled at European Mickey D's is supplied by a subsidiary of American agri-biz behem ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, Greenpeace, 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 |
Daily Grist |
| 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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