Rainforests
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UNESCO: NATURAL SITES IN MADAGASCAR, CHINA AND KOREA INSCRIBED ON ... - 20 Aug 2007
MaximsNews.com,The Rainforests of the Atsinanana comprise six national parks distributed along the eastern part of the island. These relict forests are critically
Banks decried over alleged support of rainforest logging - 20 Aug 2007
TV3 News,The Australian owners of the ANZ and National banks are under attack from the Green Party, for allegedly supporting a tropical rainforests logging company.
Young British visitors at Tamoi Tengah - 20 Aug 2007
Bru Direct,...a chance to enjoy some local food and culture. They are currently staying with foster parents in KB and have also been to one of the country's rainforests.
Rise in demand for biofuels to benefit rural poor - 20 Aug 2007
Business Daily Africa,...“It is critical to the stability of the climate that we prevent biofuels from expanding at the expense of rainforests and other valuable ecosystems that
New Study Recommends Against Burning Biofuels to Solve Global Warming - 20 Aug 2007
NewsBusters...and 200 tonnes of carbon [per hectare]," says Renton Righelato of the World Land Trust, UK, a conservation agency that seeks to preserve rainforests.
More than 20 artists create items for ‘Rock-N-Chairity’ - 20 Aug 2007
2TheAdvocate,...who painted a rocker with scenes of polar bears at the North Pole, penguins at the South Pole, Louisiana wetlands, a coral reef and the rainforests.
Fossil Fuels Better for Environment than Biofuels - 20 Aug 2007
Outside the Beltway,...and 200 tonnes of carbon [per hectare],� says Renton Righelato of the World Land Trust, UK, a conservation agency that seeks to preserve rainforests.
OriginOil Files Patent for Breakthrough Technology to Transform ... - 20 Aug 2007
PR Web (press release),Other oil producing feedstock such as corn and sugarcane often destroy vital farmlands and rainforests, disrupt global food supplies and create new
Hot tempers and global warming - 20 Aug 2007
Daily Inter Lake,John Dingell, D-Mich., earlier this month), and wiping out the rainforests so that businesses will have biomass available to turn into biofuel so that we
Perak's Tourism Industry To Benefit From NCER - 20 Aug 2007
Bernama,The Royal Belum State Park Rainforest is located at the Malaysia/Thai border and covers 117500 hectares of virgin rainforests. It borders the Temenggor
Orangutan And Grim Reaper Protest Outside ANZ - 20 Aug 2007
Scoop.co.nz,The Green Party is urging New Zealanders to cut links to ANZ unless the banking group stops supporting a huge tropical rainforests logging company.
Malaysia's Best Man-Made Tourist Attraction - 20 Aug 2007
e-Travel Blackboard (press release),Explore the rainforests on All Terrain Vehicles, speed off on Jet Boats then get in a bit of shooting practice in the shooting range or go for all out war
Wildlife Volunteer Opportunities - 20 Aug 2007
50 Connect,Work At A Gibbon Sanctuary: Stay and work in the rainforests of South East Asia, in Phuket's Gibbon Sanctuary. Count Lions In Kenya: Help identify and
Biofuels menace rainforests - Aug 17, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,Substituting fossil fuels with biofuels will not only add more carbon to the atmosphere, but will destroy primary forests, biodiversity and livelihoods,
Coral reefs are vanishing faster than rainforests - Aug 8, 2007
New Scientist (subscription),Coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific are disappearing twice as fast as tropical rainforests, say researchers. They have completed the first comprehensive survey
Global warming cutting growth rate of trees in rainforests - Aug 14, 2007
Daily News & Analysis,NEW YORK: Global warming could cut the rate at which trees in tropical rainforests grow by as much as half, a new study based on more two decades of data
Differing Patterns Of Rainforest Biodiversity - Aug 17, 2007
HULIQ,Rainforests are the world's treasure houses of biodiversity, but all rainforests are not the same. Biodiversity may be more evenly distributed in some
Allegations over destruction of rainforests unfounded - Aug 14, 2007
CSR Asia,Allegations by some western countries over indiscriminate opening of oil palm plantations and destruction of its rainforests and habitats are unfounded,
Costa Rica will Soon Unveil its Fourth Fully Sustainable Resort ... - Aug 18, 2007
PR-GB.com (press release),Volcanoes, rivers, beaches, waterfalls, and rainforests cover the small country making it a playground for visitors. With so much natural beauty and an
Asda palm oil ban to save rainforests - Jul 21, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,...'It sends a very strong message to the Indonesian and Malaysian governments that, if they don't stop destroying rainforests, they'll be destroying their
New research is good environmental news for rainforests, birds and ... - Aug 9, 2007
Canada East,WASHINGTON (AP) - For a change, there's some good news from the world of the environment. Several rare and vulnerable birds are rebounding in Europe.
Internet Porn for the Environment - Aug 18, 2007
LAist,...well, you can submit your own creative photography and films or join by paying a membership fee, where the proceeds go to saving the rainforests.
Rainforest Biodiversity Shows Differing Patterns - Aug 8, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Science Daily — Rainforests are the world's treasure houses of biodiversity, but all rainforests are not the same. Biodiversity may be more evenly
Coral reefs declining faster than rainforests - Aug 8, 2007
Mongabay.comCoral reefs in the Pacific Ocean are dying faster than previously thought due to costal development, climate change, and disease, reports a study published
Fake fruits lure bats to replant denuded rainforests - Aug 8, 2007
Conservation Magazine,By Nancy Bazilchuk Brazilian researchers have found an unusual way to reforest hundreds of thousands of hectares of denuded Atlantic and Amazonian forests.
Deforestation slows in the Amazon - Aug 14, 2007
ABC Online,But some experts in Australia believe the destruction of the rainforests is not about to end, with fires raging and trees still being torn down.
Samar’s biodiversity - Aug 17, 2007
Manila Times,Samar hosts one of the largest and last remaining stands of tropical rainforests in our country, estimated at 27% of the island.
Ocean City Council: No exotic wood for boardwalk - Aug 17, 2007
NJ Blog,The wood, called ipe, grows in Central and South American rainforests, which environmentalists contend are being ravaged by loggers.
Australian savanna a wildnerness treasure - Aug 13, 2007
ABC Science Online,The study, by four Australian environmental scientists, also says that the savanna is more important globally than the World Heritage-listed rainforests of
Highlight the problem of global warming at Car-E-festa - Aug 17, 2007
Stabroek News,Guyana after all is part of the earth's lungs and the world is looking to us to conserve our rainforests for the benefit of all.
Bat Breath Reveals The Identity Of A Vampire's Last Victim - Aug 18, 2007
DentalPlans.com,Converting rainforests into pasture has a large impact on many native mammals of Latin America, usually not to the benefit of the original mammal fauna.
Costa Rica Offers Rainforests, Beaches, And Discount Face Lifts - Jul 24, 2007
JauntedBourgeois housewives from flyover states across America are jetting down to Central America for some - excuse us - "cut-rate" plastic surgery.
Students raise awareness of plight of tropical forest - Aug 7, 2007
Taipei Times,..."Budi's hair is like the rainforests of Indonesia," one environmentalist present said. "They're getting slashed and burned." Joined by a handful of other
Seniors start enviro club - Aug 17, 2007
New Brunswick Home News Tribune,Elsewhere, glaciers are rapidly melting, rainforests and species are disappearing, mountain ice packs are melting (thus drying up rivers and regional water
Environmentalists to Protest Ocean City’s Use of ‘Rainforest ... - Aug 15, 2007
NJBIZ,The use of rainforest wood causes damage to the rainforests of South America, which are home to millions of species, both known and yet to be discovered,
Chocolate..Treat yourself! - Aug 12, 2007
Economic Times,Derived by processing the pods of the cacao tree, this tasty secret was discovered 2000 years ago in the rainforests of the Americas.
AT&T to offer shorter iPhone bills and push for online billing - Aug 16, 2007
TECH.BLORGE.com,...long but this will soon be a thing of the past as AT&T has decided not to kill our remaining rainforests by issuing iPhone customers "summary bills.
Environmentalism for Billionaires - Aug 6, 2007
AlterNet,All over the tropics, international agribusiness giants like Cargill, as well as smaller domestic operators, have turned pristine rainforests into millions
Aust urged to sign onto 'debt for nature' scheme - Aug 5, 2007
ABC Online,Dr Lovejoy is considered one of the world's experts on rainforests and is the former chief biodiversity adviser to the World Bank president.
Brazil government claims Amazon deforestation under control - Aug 14, 2007
Earthtimes.orgBrazilian President Lula da Silva had announced a slew of initiatives to tackle illegal logging in the rainforests that are called as the "lungs of the
Namibia: EU Promises 'Unwavering Support' for Indigenous People - Aug 10, 2007
AllAfrica.com,..."As we pursue this course we will ensure that we honour our commitments to protect natural ecosystems, rainforests and the traditional population of these
Global Warming Could Reduce Rainforest Tree Growth by 50 Percent - Aug 11, 2007
MedIndia,Data collected on forests in Panama and Malaysia has revealed that global warming could reduce the growth of trees in tropical rainforests by 50 percent,
Environmentalists to protest choice of wood for OC boardwalk - Aug 15, 2007
NJ.com,...at 6 pm to protest the city council's recent decision to purchase ipe, a wood found in the rainforests of Brazil, to refurbish the town's boardwalk.
The Impact of Climate Change in the Latin America-Caribbean Region - Aug 17, 2007
Political Affairs Magazine,Today, the rainforests of South America and Mesoamerica are suffering the heaviest consequences of climate change with respect to a grievous loss of
Focus on carbon 'missing the point' - Jul 30, 2007
BBC News,We are already being warned about the dangers of excessive demand for biofuels, which is reportedly leading to the clearing of rainforests and increasing
Tribe at threat by 'green' fuels demand - Jul 27, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,The rainforests of Serawak are millions of years old but have been decimated by the Malaysian logging companies which, campaigners say, have felled trees at
Lowland rainforest less diverse than previously thought - Aug 9, 2007
Mongabay.com0809large_caterpillar While rainforests are the world's libraries of biodiversity, species richness may be more evenly distributed in some forests than in
Wildlife roadshow on island - Aug 14, 2007
Dorset Echo,THE rainforests with their massive trees and the small wildlife to be found there was brought vividly to life for youngsters at a Rainforest Roadshow held
Campaigners call for crackdown on illegal timber - Jul 23, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,Britain is the third largest importer of illegally logged timber in the world, with trees stolen from rainforests often converted into flooring,
Rare pygmy elephants endangered by logging in Borneo - Aug 8, 2007
Mongabay.comResearchers report that the preferred habitat for these dwarfed elephants -- flat, lowland rainforests and river valleys -- are some of the most sought
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