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Silva Buckle Brazil's pro-rainforest environment minister resigns		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 ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, international politics, news, politics, rainforests (all these topics)

China's coming land grab More hidden costs of our love affair with cheap imported goods	Tom Philpott	11 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, Brazil, China, economy, rainforests (all these topics)

'Orangutans' scale wall, save forest Unilever supports rainforest destruction moratorium	Glenn Hurowitz	07 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: environmental movement, Greenpeace, habitat protection, Indonesia, politics, rainforests (all these topics)

Food crisis resolved! Let's raze more Amazon rainforest!	Tom Philpott	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, Brazil, deforestation, food, rainforests (all these topics)

Market force of nature Social concerns complicate an issue that, for scientists, is a no-brainer	Maywa Montenegro	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: business, Guyana, investing, public lands, rainforests (all these topics)

Betting on the future Private equity firm buys rights to rainforest reserve's environmental services	biodiversivist	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biodiversity, biofuels, business, Guyana, investing, rainforests (all these topics)

Cries on the Prize Chevron throws hissy fit that anti-Chevron activists received award		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 ...
Topics: Amazon, Big Oil, Ecuador, energy, grassroots activism, heroes, litigation, news, oil, rainforests, water pollution (all these topics)

'The Clean Energy Scam' Biofuel boom leveling rainforest, Time reports	Tom Philpott	30 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, Brazil, deforestation, energy, ethanol, rainforests (all these topics)

All the World's a Shag Catching up with our favorite European eco-porn activists	Katharine Wroth	28 Mar 2008	Grist Feature

Topics: deforestation, grassroots activism, green living, interview, rainforests, sex (all these topics)

Strike a blow against palm oil madness Rainforest Action Network's new pledge petition	Joseph Romm	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Ag, business, celebrity, deforestation, grassroots activism, rainforests (all these topics)

Amazon Disgrace Peruvian Amazon under threat from oil exploration, illegal logging		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 17 Mar 2008 There's no better way to start off a Monday than with depressing news from the Peruvian Amazon, which is under threat from both fossil-fuel development and illegal logging. Despite protests from environmental and human rights groups, Peru's government plans to auction off dozens of parcels of remote rainforest for oil and gas companies to explore. And in even more somber news, Per ...
Topics: energy, fossil fuels, habitat loss, insanity, logging, news, Peru, rainforests (all these topics)

Razing, a Riot Brazil seizes huge load of illegal Amazon timber after riots		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 ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, news, rainforests (all these topics)

That Was Easy Staples cuts off contracts with paper supplier over eco-concerns		08 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 7:38 AM on 08 Feb 2008 This is spiffy, so allow us to Post-it: Office supply giant Staples has cut off all contracts with gigantic Asia Pulp & Paper, citing concern that APP feeds Indonesian and Chinese rainforest into its pulp mills. In recent years, other businesses including Office Depot have quit dealings with APP over environmental concerns, but Staples had stuck with 'em. Now, though, Staples' Vic ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, news, rainforests (all these topics)

Slowforestation Decelerating growth in tropical forest trees, thanks to accelerating carbon dioxide	Joseph Romm	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change impacts, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, rainforests (all these topics)

Plowing up the Amazon Scientist says biofuel boom endangers world's largest rainforest	Tom Philpott	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, Brazil, deforestation, energy, rainforests (all these topics)

Papua New Guinea loses the moral high ground PNG agrees to let palm-oil producers raze rainforest	Joseph Romm	28 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: habitat loss, rainforests, Papua New Guinea, biofuels, climate (all these topics)

Humor fails Saddening video report on Indonesian palm oil plantations	JMG	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, deforestation, energy, Indonesia, rainforests (all these topics)

They Tried to Make Me Go to a Reserve, I Said Bonobo Congo nature preserve set up to protect bonobos		20 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:04 AM on 20 Nov 2007 A swath of Congo rainforest larger than the state of Massachusetts will be designated as a nature reserve in a collaborative effort between American and Congolese environmental groups and agencies. Advocates hope the reserve will be a significant step toward protecting the endangered bonobo, one of humans' closest ape relations. Bonobos, which live only in the Co ...
Topics: Congo, news, progress, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

It's Simple, Simon Simon & Schuster joins the ranks of greener publishers		08 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:33 PM on 08 Nov 2007 Random House has done it. Scholastic has done it. Even a publisher of the Bible is going green. So hey, Simon & Schuster: welcome aboard! The publisher, which counts such notables as Stephen King and Ursula Hegi among its authors, has committed to increasing its recycled-paper content from the current 10 percent to 25 percent or more by 2012. It will also buy at least 10 percent of ...
Topics: greening biz operations, news, rainforests, recycling (all these topics)

Bush swaps debt for nature Costa Rica and Guatemala deals could point to common ground on climate crisis	Glenn Hurowitz	17 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, Costa Rica, deforestation, international politics, politics, rainforests (all these topics)

Forgive and For Get U.S. agrees to forgive $26 million debt in Costa Rica debt-for-nature swap		17 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 8:52 AM on 17 Oct 2007 The U.S. federal government has agreed to a debt-for-nature swap with Costa Rica that will see $26 million of the Central American country's debt owed to the U.S. go instead toward conservation of its rainforests. The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International each donated about $1.2 million to the effort while the U.S. is financing $12.6 million of it. Those fu ...
Topics: Costa Rica, international politics, news, rainforests, United States (all these topics)

Mongabay highlights for July '07 (late edition) Certification-driven deforestation	biodiversivist	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: deforestation, mining, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Regular oil cleaner than ethanol Saving and restoring forests better for climate than switching to biofuels	Glenn Hurowitz	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, climate, deforestation, energy, ethanol, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil, rainforests (all these topics)

Environmental charity Fairness tradeoff?	Gar Lipow	07 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biodiversity, deforestation, rainforests (all these topics)

George Soros vs. the planet Soros, Goldman Sachs financing destruction of Brazilian forests	Glenn Hurowitz	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, Brazil, business, carbon sequestration, consumerism, deforestation, ethanol, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

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