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 Stories About: South America AND wilderness AND wildlife
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Cloud Nein
World's Cloud Forests Threatened |
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10 Feb 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ... |
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| Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Enron's End Run
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06 May 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Enron's End Run Here's another victim of Enron: the Chiquitano Dry Tropical Forest, one of the two most valuable forests in Latin America and one of the 200 most endangered eco-regions in the world, according to the World Bank and the World Wildlife Fund, respectively. The forest was the largest remaining undeveloped land of its kind in South America -- until Enron built a 390-mile natural gas pipeline directly through ... |
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| Topics: South America, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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