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The Sawn Remains the Same
Massive Amazon illegal logging ring busted |
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03 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Sawn Remains the Same Massive Amazon illegal logging ring busted Eighty-nine people were rounded up by Brazilian authorities this week as part of a massive crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, causing a rare outbreak of hope among conservationists that the country's government is finally taking the problem seriously. (The sweep came just weeks after the latest, very grim, data on Amazon deforestation we ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news (all these topics) |
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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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Texaco to Ecuador: Have You Tried a Swiffer?
Texaco haunted by dirty legacy in Ecuador |
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27 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Texaco to Ecuador: Have You Tried a Swiffer? Texaco haunted by dirty legacy in Ecuador At a ChevronTexaco shareholder meeting today in California, Amazonian community leaders, celebrities, and activists will confront company officials, focusing attention anew on Texaco's messy legacy in Ecuador. Twenty years of oil exploration in the nation left much of the western edge of the Amazon rainforest in ecological ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, business, Ecuador, energy, news, oil (all these topics) |
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Sturm Und Stang
Nun's murder spurs Amazon protections |
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22 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Sturm Und Stang Nun's murder spurs Amazon protections Outrage over the Feb. 12 murder of nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang has finally catalyzed Brazil's government to protect the forest Stang worked for decades to save. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in addition to once again pulling logging permits he had restored just a week before Stang's assassination due to intense pro-logging protests, announced o ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news (all these topics) |
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Nun of the Above
Nun slain while campaigning against Amazon destruction |
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17 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Nun of the Above Nun slain while campaigning against Amazon destruction Through heart-rending tragedy, international attention was focused with unusual intensity this week on rainforest destruction in Brazil. Dorothy Stang, an elderly nun working to slow the devastation of the Amazon by organizing locals against the powerful (and largely illegal) logging and ranching operations bent on expanding the ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news, rainforests, ranching (all these topics) |
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Brazilness as Usual
Amazon forests not doing well |
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14 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Brazilness as Usual Amazon forests not doing well If Amazonian rainforests are, as the old saying goes, the lungs of the world, then our respiratory outlook is not good. The forests face a trio of threats. There are fire and logging, as poor farmers, cattle ranchers, and agribusinesses clear land for crops or cattle. Then there's "dieback," whereby the forest vegetation dies from lack of water, which is ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, land degradation, news (all these topics) |
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The Tree Police, They Live Inside of My Head
Brazil opens environmental police academy in Amazon |
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19 Nov 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| The Tree Police, They Live Inside of My Head Brazil opens environmental police academy in Amazon The environmental movement in Brazil's Amazon rainforest is arming itself, literally, for the fight against illegal mining, animal and plant piracy, and other crimes against nature. This week, Brazil's federal government opened Latin America's largest environmental police academy -- 135 square miles of Amazon land devoted to t ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, land degradation (all these topics) |
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Amazon Women on the Move
Judy Logback, enterprising Amazonian activist, answers readers' questions |
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01 Oct 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Judy Logback, founder of the Kallari Association. What is the level of understanding of the native people that you work with about the crucial role of the Amazon rainforest in biodiversity and global warming? Has their perspective changed since you first arrived there? -- Sue Kaufman, Portland, Ore. I think that when I arrived many of the people had an excellent view of the importanc ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, green living, InterActivist, interview, land stewardship (all these topics) |
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Livin' la Vida Pura
Judy Logback, enterprising Amazonian activist, answers Grist's questions |
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27 Sep 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Judy Logback. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I arrived in Ecuador in 1997 and throughout the past seven years have visited and worked with more than 600 rural families to encourage them to establish the Kallari Association, a small farmers' and artisans' organization dedicated to sustainable organic production of a diverse array of products, made up of 24 Amazon indi ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, green living, InterActivist, interview, land stewardship (all these topics) |
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Labor Pains
Slave labor used to clear Brazilian rainforest |
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15 Sep 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Labor Pains Slave labor used to clear Brazilian rainforest The Amazon rainforest is disappearing at a precipitous pace, and as is too often the case, this environmental catastrophe is connected to equally dire human-rights abuses. To wit: Thousands of poor, illiterate Brazilian peasants work every year chopping down the forest in conditions Brazil's Labor Ministry delicately refers to as "analogous to slavery.'' Promised $ ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, business (all these topics) |
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Bark A'Lounging
Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Messing With Amazon Ecology |
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11 Mar 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Bark A'Lounging Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Messing With Amazon Ecology Researchers have discovered that areas of the Amazon rainforest previously considered pristine are in fact undergoing drastic changes, likely due to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The discovery was a bit of an accident -- researchers tracked changes in plots of isolated rainforest to use them as "controls" again ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, ozone, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics) |
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The Real Macaw
Dispatches from a Macaw Research Trip in the Amazon |
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04 Mar 2004 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: Amazon, wildlife (all these topics) |
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I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain
Amazonian Fires May Screw Up Entire South American Climate |
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27 Feb 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain Amazonian Fires May Screw Up Entire South American Climate Massive fires in Amazonian forests, set by impoverished local residents trying to create revenue-generating pastures and cropland, have the potential to disrupt the climate and generate fierce storms across South America, says research published in today's issue of the journal Science. The fires send particles into clouds, which attract water mol ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Gold Substandard
Unlawful Gold Mining Threatens Brazilian Amazon |
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11 Nov 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Gold Substandard Unlawful Gold Mining Threatens Brazilian Amazon Illegal gold mining in the rivers of Brazil's Amazon rainforest is on the upswing and could mean bad news for the environment. Thousands of poor small-scale miners, called garimpeiros, risk their lives to get at traces of gold at the bottom of rivers, sometimes employing equipment as basic as a garden hose for underwater ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Going Mahogany Wild
Illegal Mahogany Logging Endangers Amazon Rainforest in Peru |
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29 Sep 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Going Mahogany Wild Illegal Mahogany Logging Endangers Amazon Rainforest in Peru Illegal logging of mahogany is escalating in Peru, threatening the Amazon rainforest and a number of indigenous groups that live in its remote reaches. The mahogany trade is strictly governed by international rules, and Brazil has cracked down on logging of the sought-after tree, but mahogany ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, commercial and industry organizations, logging, Peru, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Say It Ain't Soy
Brazil Will Allow Planting of GM Soybeans |
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29 Sep 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Say It Ain't Soy Brazil Will Allow Planting of GM Soybeans In a big blow to opponents of biotechnology, Brazil announced last week that it will allow farmers to plant genetically modified soybeans, ending its role as one of the leading nations opposed to GM crops. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government had previously promised to oppose GM plantings, bu ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, business, deforestation, food and agriculture, GMOs, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Put It in Park
Megapark Will Protect Vast Stretch of Pristine Amazon Rainforest |
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16 Sep 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Put It in Park Megapark Will Protect Vast Stretch of Pristine Amazon Rainforest Brazil has announced the creation of a new "conservation corridor" that will link 12 separate protected areas in the Amazon rainforest to create a 25 million-acre megapark. It will be the world's largest protected stretch of tropical rainforest, encompassing about 70 percent of Brazil's northern state of Amapa, which scie ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, national parks, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Peruvian Gold
Peruvian Natural Gas Project Denied Funding |
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29 Aug 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Peruvian Gold Peruvian Natural Gas Project Denied Funding In a blow for two Texas energy companies, a huge Peruvian natural-gas project was denied funding yesterday because of concerns about the likely impact on a marine preserve, a rainforest, and indigenous people in the Amazon Basin. In a 2-to-1 vote, the U.S. Export-Import ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, Peru, politics, rainforests, water bodies and marine life (all these topics) |
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Touching News
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23 Oct 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Touching News A whopping 83 percent of the surface of the Earth is dedicated to human activities -- farming, mining, fishing, or just plain old living -- according to a report released this week by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network. Human use leaves wildlife with just a fraction of the terrestrial surface of the globe ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Amazon, Canada, Mongolia, Russia, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Everything Goes Worse With Coke
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30 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Everything Goes Worse With Coke As if population pressures and the international demand for wood weren't exacting enough of a toll on tropical ecosystems, here's another problem: cocaine. In the last 30 years, some 5.7 million acres of Peruvian rainforest have been razed to make way for coca crops, and more than 14,800 tons of toxic chemicals used in the cocaine manufacturing process are dumped into th ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, land degradation, Peru, rainforests, toxics (all these topics) |
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Jungle Fever
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15 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Jungle Fever Vines are the hallmark of any self-respecting jungle -- picture Tarzan swinging in from offstage -- but the situation is getting a bit out of control in the Amazon rainforest, where vines are growing so quickly they are choking trees and possibly interfering with the ability of forests to soak up greenhouse gases, according to a study published in today's issue of Nature. An international te ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, rainforests, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Radar Strange
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26 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Radar Strange Ever since Sept. 11, sophisticated surveillance systems have been the talk of the town, and fans have proposed installing them in all sorts of places -- airports, subway systems, sports stadiums. But rainforests? Yep. Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso flew to the jungle city of Manaus yesterday to inaugurate the Amazon Surveillance System, a $1.4 billion network of radar stations and high-tech equi ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Andes Minced
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22 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: Amazon, Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Ecuador, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Basin Is No Sink
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11 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Basin Is No Sink The network of waterways in the Amazon River Basin emits three times as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as previously thought, according to a study appearing in the current edition of Nature. The finding suggests that tropical forest regions are not carbon "sinks" that help cleanse the world of excess CO2 emissions. Rather, the Amazon region produces about 2 trillion pounds of carbon ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, ozone, rivers and watersheds (all these topics) |
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Lost at Sea
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07 Dec 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Lost at Sea In the midst of an expedition to document the impact of global warming and pollution on the Amazon Basin, America's Cup champion Sir Peter Blake was shot and killed yesterday, when pirates boarded his research boat at the mouth of the Amazon River. Blake, a 53-year-old native of Auckland, New Zealand, won the yacht race in 1995 and 2000, but h ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Amazon River, climate, green living, New Zealand, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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