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Dead Bird Flying		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Dead Bird Flying Upon hearing reports of his own demise, Mark Twain famously retorted that rumors of his death had been greatly exaggerated. The same could be said of the golden-crowned manakin, a small Brazilian bird thought to have gone extinct almost a half-century ago but recently rediscovered in the Amazon rainforest. The bird was found by German ornithologist Helmut Sick in 1957. That was also the last year anyone ever ...
Topics: Brazil, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Take the Mahogany and Run	Suzy Becker	28 May 2002	Ha.

Topics: Brazil, wildlife (all these topics)

Speedy Gone-zales		04 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Speedy Gone-zales Mexico is losing forests at almost twice the rate previously thought, the country's Environment Ministry announced yesterday. A new multi-agency study of satellite images taken from 1993 and 2000 found that average forest loss in that time was about 2.78 million acres a year, the world's second-highest deforestation ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Rainforest Crunch Time The U.S. takes the war against terrorism to the Amazon	Chris Colin	26 Nov 2001	Soapbox
United States military forces bombed the Amazon rainforest today, Pentagon officials said. The predawn assault targeted key habitats of several crucial wildlife species, thought to have been dug in for many years. "Parrots hate freedom," President Bush said in a press conference shortly after the first squadron of B-2s left a base in San Paolo. "We will locate those evildoers a ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, politics, US Military (all these topics)

Monkey Business		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Monkey Business Illegal trafficking in wildlife has become Brazil's third-most profitable illegal activity after arms and drugs smuggling, generating up to $1 billion annually. An estimated 38 million wild animals are stolen from the country's forests every year, according to a new report by the National Network Against the Trafficking of Wild Animals (RENCTAS). Eighty-two percent ...
Topics: Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Cogito Ergo Summit		22 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Cogito Ergo Summit At an environmental summit being held this week in Rio de Janeiro, Latin American and Caribbean countries are forging an alliance to pressure developed nations to foot most of the bill for the planet's ailing ecosystems. During the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, industrialized nations pledged to spend 0.7 percent of their gross domestic products on sustainable development in the developing ...
Topics: Brazil, business, Caribbean, politics, South America (all these topics)

Don't Come on In, the Water's Warm		26 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Don't Come on In, the Water's Warm A beachside nuclear reactor in Brazil leaked thousands of gallons of slightly radioactive water in May, but the public didn't learn about the problem until the Brazilian magazine Epoca broke the news earlier this week. Most of the water leaking from the Angra reactor was contained by an emergency tank, and the plant was shut down for a week. ...
Topics: Brazil, green living, Greenpeace, nuclear power, oceans, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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