|
|
Rain forestArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.htmlVernon Hills ReviewThe Park features an 18000-square-foot indoor rain forest with more than 8000 plants. The rain forest is celebrating its 10-year anniversary and was built Remote Sensing in Extreme Environments - 06 Aug 2009 Laboratory EquipmentThey run on cables between radio towers within the rain forest for horizontal measurements and have lowering and raising mechanisms for vertical It's the Pitts - 06 Aug 2009 Holyoke EnterpriseRain Forest Free Beef—In response to the conversion of the Amazon rainforest to pasture, some consumers will want to purchase beef that is rain forest free. Brazil Amazon defender weighing presidential bid - 06 Aug 2009 ReutersRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A former Brazilian environment minister who won fame as a staunch defender of the Amazon rain forest is considering running for Rain forest group: Go green - pee in the shower - 06 Aug 2009 Bloomington PantagraphBy AP | Posted: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 1:45 pm | Loading… RIO DE JANEIRO -- New TV ads are encouraging Brazilians to save water - by urinating in the Top 5 green 'South Park' episodes - 06 Aug 2009 Mother Nature NetworkIn the end, chaos ensues and the group ends up collectively hating the rain forest and its inhabitants. Best line: "God-damn, stupid-ass rainforest! Reality Shows Getting Too Personal? - 06 Aug 2009 India JournalChetan Hansraj, pop singer Anaida, Aman Verma, battling it out to survive in a rain forest has raised eyebrows with it's sexual undertones with the male Amazonia Helping Break Zoo Records - 06 Aug 2009 Inside INdiana Business (press release) (press release)Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden in Evansville has experienced record attendance this year thanks to the $13 million Amazonia rain forest exhibit. National Parks Are Us: Gwaii Haanas - 06 Aug 2009 Pique newsmagazineA state of constant dampness, if not outright wringing-wetness, is the reality of sea kayaking in the rain forest. The only places you can bank on having Luxury Vacations in Hawaii - 06 Aug 2009 JustLuxe.comWith a tropical rain forest, a barrier reef, and ancient Hawaiian temples, the island is a favorite among those seeking adventure. The Lady with the Ruler - 06 Aug 2009 BU TodaySpecies Richness, Community Structure, and Social Organization in Amazonian Pheidole, explores the ecology of ants in the Ecuadorian rain forest. Business and the Zen of Managing - 06 Aug 2009 Student Operated PressEven the Dani and the Yanamamo, those primitive " folks in the rain forest. Every one of us is trading, selling (for something), getting, Remote Runs That Beat The Crowds and Give Something Back - 06 Aug 2009 Snowshoe MagazineLapa Rios is an upscale 16-bungalow eco-lodge protecting over 1000 acres of preserved rain forest on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica; an area prized for its How did the USA become ... The sleaziest country in the world? - 06 Aug 2009 Vancouver SunPeter Cammarano, campaigned on his impeccable ethics and a guarantee that no state paper products would come from rain forest trees. Alcoa Razes Rain Forest in Court Case Led by Brazil Prosecutors - Jul 31, 2009 BloombergIn the 1960s and 1970s, Texaco Inc. drilled dozens of oil wells in Ecuador's Amazon, destroying rain forest and polluting the region with poisonous wastes. Get a squirrel's-eye view of the rain forest on the Capilano ... - Aug 2, 2009 Dallas Morning NewsFrom vantage points as much as 100 feet above the ground, you get a fascinating, seldom-seen squirrel's-eye view of the rain forest. Even at that height, Tank students build 'rain forest' at St. Norbert College - Jul 30, 2009 Green Bay Press GazetteThe theme of this year's program is "Tank Tigers are prowling through the rain forest." It centers on art, literacy and other lessons for the theme of the Obama Administration Approves First Roadless Logging Contract In ... - Jul 28, 2009 Ethiopian ReviewThe Tongass National Forest is a 17 million acre temperate rain forest in southeast Alaska, which is home to both endangered species and native Alaskan Teddy Roosevelt: Seattle's pioneer environmentalist? - Aug 4, 2009 Seattle Post IntelligencerIt was a distant cousin and Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, confined to a wheelchair, who recognized the Olympic rain forest as a national treasure and set Nike refuses to use leather from cattle in Amazon rain forest - Jul 23, 2009 SmartBriefIn a show of support to stop deforestation, Nike says it will not use leather from cattle bred in the Amazon rain forest in Brazil. Chevron Getting Hit With $27 Billion Fine For Destroying Ecuador's ... - Jul 20, 2009 The Business InsiderChevron is expected to be slapped with a $27 billion judgment by a court in Ecuador for environmental damage done to the rain forest between 1964 and 1990. Stanislaus County fair brings rain forest to the valley - Jul 13, 2009 Modesto BeeEventually, they came up with the idea of a rain forest, which goes with the 2009 fair's recycling theme of "Renewable Fun." Earlier this year, the Everetts Chevron: 'We're not paying' $27B fine for Ecuador rain forest ... - Jul 30, 2009 Ethiopian ReviewUS oil company Chevron said Monday that it expects to lose a case which charges the company's Texaco branch with polluting Ecuador's rain forest with When the Sahara Was Green - Aug 4, 2009 EcoWorldlyThe top soil of a rain forest is, at most, only a few inches thick–not enough to reconstitute itself or sustain itself for long once exposed to heat and Explore the Amazon Rain Forest's Diverse Wildlife - Jul 23, 2009 EmailwireMyths and Mountains explores two unique areas of Peru's Amazon rain forest to sample the area's amazingly diverse wildlife. (EMAILWIRE. Dealers Bail Out Cash for Clunkers - Aug 4, 2009 Huffington PostMany said the old cars still run and that we don't need to cut down more rain forest in order to harvest steel -- or whatever. Well, someone was listening: Rain forest exhibit bringing in a flood of visitors - Jul 18, 2009 Evansville Courier & PressQ: And it's literally on a catwalk, on what would best be described as the upper reaches of a tropical rain forest. A: Yes. You enter the exhibit in a Obama administration green lights logging in Tongass National Forest - Jul 16, 2009 Mother Nature NetworkSecretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack gave his personal approval for a 381-acre clear-cut in America's largest stand of temperate rain forest. Monday Chat: Parrots have a role in rain forest - Jul 19, 2009 TCPalmA. The way I see the job of parrots, particularly in the rain forest where the food is high in the canopy, parrots eat seeds, fruit, a lot of things. Reporter's Notebook – A Perk, If You Will - Aug 5, 2009 Oakdale LeaderI don't have the space to wax poetically about everything we saw and experienced, so this will be more of a highlight reel starting with the Rain Forest Flood in full control - Aug 5, 2009 Manila BulletinIn big towns with rain forest flooding is more or less predictable. When mountains and hills suddenly become bald people and their elective officials see a Students prepare for Costa Rica science trek - Jul 22, 2009 Minneapolis Star TribuneFinca La Anita is surrounded by rain forest. One morning while out on a walk, John Doleman, the managing director of Minntica, which operates the farm, Daily Briefing: Wed. - Aug 5, 2009 Mother Nature Network...(Source: CNN) TREES FALLING IN THE FOREST: The Amazon rain forest isn't having a good summer. Deforestation in the world's biggest jungle quadrupled in June Really Barack! Logging in a rain forest? - Jul 16, 2009 Daily KosIf you have any environmental concern, why would you even consider allowing logging in a rain forest? You would not! Clearly this is not a priority for his Greenpeace: Congo needs clear logging policies - Jul 29, 2009 Mother Nature NetworkGovernmental inconsistencies are hastening the drastic shrinkage of the second-largest rain forest in the world. By Agence France-Presse GIMME SHELTER: The Three North American sites among 28 finalists in New 7 Wonders of ... - Jul 23, 2009 Examiner.comThese are the Grand Canyon in the United States, the Bay of Fundy in Canada, and the El Yunque National Rain Forest in Puerto Rico. Can Roads and Rain Forests Co-Exist? - Jul 27, 2009 New York Times BlogsWhile most of the vast carpet of rain forest cloaking the Amazon River basin remains intact, the forest is looking increasingly tattered Brazil soy sector extends Amazon boycott for year - Jul 28, 2009 ReutersThe moratorium, which was set up as a response to pressure from activist groups and buyers to preserve the world's largest rain forest, applies to soybeans An Aussie Adventure! - Jul 28, 2009 Edmond Life and LeisureSnorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, hiking in the rain forest, sailing the Whitsunday Islands, and sight-seeing in Sydney is about as far More bang for the buck - Aug 5, 2009 Review Times..."We're doing what we can, but it's like trying to tear down a rain forest with a butter knife," said Hoover. Davoli also noted that the city had received a The Lost World of Venezuela's Mt. Roraima - Jul 26, 2009 Los Angeles TimesFrom how many places can you see dry plains in one direction and an impassable rain forest in the other? On clear nights, the full moon was bright enough to Climber's journal: Wally Glover on Kilimanjaro - Jul 24, 2009 Times-Mail (subscription)We climbed through the damp and muddy (and hot and humid) Rain Forest, into gathering clouds which are nicknamed the Cloud Forest, upward into the heath and D7 working on design for new Polk school library space - Aug 4, 2009 Dearborn Press and GuideThe new media center will span about 2588 square feet and have a rain forest theme, Bartold said, as he showed school board member architect drawings of the Op-Ed Columnist Things Can Always Be Worse - Jul 24, 2009 New York TimesWhoever told us to beware of politicians bearing rain forest resolutions? And it could have been worse. At least Hoboken's indicted mayor isn't the cut-rate Soccer club asks for donations - Aug 5, 2009 Delmarva Daily TimesUrban Salisbury Inc. will host a free movie at the Salisbury Zoo on Thursday at 8:30 pm The movie to be featured is "Fern Gully: The Last Rain Forest. Three questions for Bill Haywood, CEO, LS9 - Aug 1, 2009 San Francisco ChronicleThe distance from the Amazon rain forest to where they grow sugarcanes is about 2000 kilometers. It's about the distance between New York and Miami. Milford Sound waits for road re-opening - Aug 4, 2009 TVNZ...it alongside the likes of the Grand Canyon in the United States, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the Amazon Rain Forest and Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro. Magnate's failed rubber utopia - Aug 3, 2009 CNNHe talked the Brazilian government into granting him 10000 square kilometers of land in the Amazon rain forest -- a plot that was nearly twice as big as the NEW FROG PICTURE: Species Changes Color With Age, Sex - Aug 4, 2009 National GeographicThe newfound amphibian was "remarkably abundant" in the high-altitude rain forest where it was found. Even so, its limited known habitat of fewer than 1.2 Preview calendar: Special events, theme parks and comedy - Aug 4, 2009 North County Times27; park features the Rippity's Rainforest, a four-story children's rain forest-themed climbing and play structure with water features; four water slides, [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
|
MONGABAY.COM
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER SOCIAL MEDIA
T-SHIRTS 
CALENDARS 
CANVAS BAGS 
|
|
Copyright mongabay 2009 |
