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Hundreds go ape for Gorilla Run - 27 Sep 2008 BBC News,The event was staged by The Gorilla Organisation, a charity which protects the endangered species in central African rainforests. FOR KIDS: Weird, new ant - 27 Sep 2008 Science NewsC. Rabeling, M. Verhaagh In the Amazon rainforests of Brazil, scientists have discovered a peculiar new species of ant. The insect has no eyes. ‘Obsolete’ market system to blame for deforestation, Papua New ... - 27 Sep 2008 UN News CentreMinister told the General Assembly’s high-level debate today, stressing the need to protect the South Pacific nation’s rainforests from degredation. New Gecko Exhibit - 27 Sep 2008 ReptileChannel.com,Geckos are incredibly adaptable and have conquered habitats from balmy tropical beaches and lush rainforests to frigid mountain slopes and parched deserts. Our Wealth-Driven Economy - 27 Sep 2008 Capitol Hill Blue,The middle class has become an endangered species much as the Amazon Rainforests, African Elephants and Mountain Gorillas, India’s Bengal Tigers and our own CA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES – Opens this weekend in Golden Gate Park - 27 Sep 2008 SanFranciscoSentinel.com,Following the hour-long ceremony, the doors will open, allowing visitors to explore the Rainforests of the World, the outer reaches of the Universe, Prince Charles: wartime urgency needed for rainforests - Sep 10, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Prince Charles last night urged business leaders to act with "wartime urgency" to save the rainforests. Prince in call to save rainforests - Sep 14, 2008 The Press AssociationThe Prince of Wales has called for a "sense of wartime urgency" in a bid to save the rainforests and cap global warming. Charles, addressing a dinner at Berry craze may spell trouble for rainforests - Sep 23, 2008 FreshPlaza,The popularity of the acai berry has people wanting it to overrun Amazon. A frenzy overtakes the teeming harbor here as a wooden-hulled riverboat chugs into Oil Palm Plantations Are No Substitute For Tropical Rainforests, A ... - Sep 15, 2008 Science Daily (press release)...climate change and biodiversity loss, unless rainforests are better protected, warn scientists in the most comprehensive review of the subject to date. Gore, Maathai Address Forestry Offsets - Sep 25, 2008 Ecosystem Marketplace,Disappearing at a rate of an acre a second, rainforests could be obliterated entirely within the next few decades. "Where will they move," she asked, Prince Charles to say big business can save rainforests - Sep 9, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,Prince Charles will put the onus on big businesses to fight climate change and save the world's rainforests in a speech tonight. Jeremy Warner's Outlook: The City and keeping the rainforests alive - Sep 11, 2008 Independent,He's been in the City this week to host a dinner at The Mansion House in aid of his Rainforests Project. The turnout was an impressive one, but the reality Not Content to Just Ruin Television, MTV Sets Out to Destroy ... - Sep 19, 2008 Jossip,1) Canceling TRL, and with it the last shred of reasoning behind calling the Viacom subsidiary a music station. 2) Signing a contract that would allow them Potential Cure for Malaria Discovered in Rainforests of Costa Rica - Sep 18, 2008 EcoWorldly,While not a common disease in Costa Rica, the country’s tropical rainforests have a wide diversity of plants that sometimes cannot be found elsewhere in the Palm Oil For Food And Energy Threatens More Rainforests - Sep 16, 2008 Methuselah Foundation,Biomass energy with conventional tropical crops is a bad idea because rainforests get destroyed to make room for more palm plantations resulting in habitat Global warming wiped out the first rainforests - Sep 8, 2008 PhysOrg.com,Photo by Photo by Howard Falcon-Lang (PhysOrg.com) -- Spectacular discoveries of fossil forests show that global warming wiped out the first rainforests to Chong Behind New Academy of Sciences - Sep 26, 2008 AsianWeek,...to the California Academy of Sciences’ stunning four-story Rainforests of the World exhibit, pausing to admire the massive 90-foot diameter glass dome. Prince Charles says hedge funds could save rainforests - Sep 11, 2008 Mongabay.comCharles said that by valuing the services healthy forests provide, the market, not philanthropists, could be the saviour of rainforests. 'Penan girls being sexually abused' - Sep 21, 2008 New Straits Times,On its website, BMF said it was committed to maintaining the threatened tropical rainforests and to campaigning, in particular, for the rights of the people Wicked Coffee helps save tropical rainforests - Sep 11, 2008 CatererSearch,Wicked Coffee is taking part in a campaign to preserve tropical rainforests in Indonesia and Honduras. The company’s Fergus Walsh has made a deal to Illinois Coal Mines Produce a New, Valuable Deposit: Fossilized ... - Sep 10, 2008 Discover Magazine,In a cluster of coal mines in eastern Illinois, researchers have discovered the fossilized remains of ancient rainforests that date from the Carboniferous CRDC Sees Recent Additional Allocations to Costa Rican Park ... - Sep 24, 2008 PR.com (press release),Promising a “premium quality of life experience,� Cerro Fresco is situated near waterfalls, rainforests, and tropical gardens, and is only a one-hour drive Guyana challenges Europe to save its rainforests - Sep 9, 2008 OneWorld.net,...“How can it be that Google's services are worth billions, but those from all the world's rainforests amount to nothing?� said Canopy Capital’s Managing EU biofuel panic threatens planet - Brazil envoy - Sep 19, 2008 guardian.co.uk,The EU is also drafting a swathe of complex quality controls that protect rainforests but also try to define and protect other land-types, Greener Than Ever New California Academy of Sciences to Open - Sep 23, 2008 The Epoch Times,By Jack Philips GLASS DOME: The new California Academy of Sciences features a four-story high transparent tropical dome enclosing living rainforests. Forest trails - Sep 18, 2008 Malaysia Star,TAN Teong Jin’s love affair with the rainforests of Malaysia began six years before the publication of this book. Since then, he has explored the oldest of Magician leads audiences into world of rainforests - Aug 30, 2008 The Southern,By Scott Fitzgerald, The Southern DU QUOIN - At the age of 19, Barry DeVoll of Cedar Falls, Iowa, took inventory of his life as he wrote on a paper napkin. Bean and gone - how should I drink my coffee? - Sep 16, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,Since the 1970s, rainforests have been cleared to make way for dense rows of coffee plants grown in full sun, awash with substances that have skulls and Prince Charles calls for 'wartime' effort against deforestation - Sep 10, 2008 AFPLONDON (AFP) — Britain's Prince Charles called on the world Wednesday to act with a "sense of wartime urgency" to protect the rainforests, warning they were Pitfall: The Big Adventure - Sep 23, 2008 GameZone,The game will feature over 60 levels spanning lush rainforests, creature-filled caves, and glacial mountains. Within these dynamic worlds, players will Home to ancient ruins, lush forests and burbling volcanoes - Sep 12, 2008 China Daily,The country's elevation rises from its 2414-km-long coastline, flanked by lowland Amazon basin rainforests in the east, to the towering Andes Mountains, Geographical wonders open to all - Sep 16, 2008 Times Online,The society regularly holds exhibitions and events on current geographical issues affecting us all; from migration into the UK to razing rainforests. First shipment of palm kernel lands in Napier - Sep 8, 2008 National Business Review,In April, the Green Party urged farmers to look at alternatives to palm kernel for feeding stock because of the impact on rainforests. Reaching for the environmental tipping point - Sep 2, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,..."That was quite an enlightening battle because I learnt a lot during the process and the rainforests are absolutely magnificent," he says. The New Green California Academy of Sciences Unveiled! - Sep 22, 2008 InhabitatA transparent four-story dome in the Museum’s east wing houses the Academy’s stunning “Rainforests of the World� exhibit, complete with flying birds, Can capitalism save the Amazon? - Sep 7, 2008 BBC News,Hylton sees the essential services that the rainforests provide in the same way. He has secured the rights to 370000 hectares of Guyana's rainforest, Conservatives under siege - Sep 26, 2008 The Australian,Aside from harmless hobbyhorses such as endorsing the preservation of rainforests or promoting cancer research, activism of any kind is the last thing we Old-growth trees worth more alive than stumped: Study - Sep 4, 2008 Canada.com,..."The real major source of value in these trees if they're kept standing is the fact that these ancient rainforests are scrubbing carbon dioxide out of the Eco-tourism drawcard - Sep 19, 2008 Northwest Tasmania Advocate,..."Our objective is to provide responsible access to the rainforests in a sustainable way. It's nature in the raw, like you've never seen anywhere else. Prince Charles praises Jagdeo initiative on climate change - Sep 16, 2008 Caribbean Net News,The release stated that with regard to Jagdeo's offer to use his country’s rainforests as part of the global fight against climate change, Prince Charles Sony World Photography Awards 2009 - Sep 23, 2008 MarketWatchA major new initiative, in association with The Prince's Rainforests Project (PRP), was announced on Monday 22 September, at the launch of the second annual 'Extinct' frog found near Cairns - Sep 11, 2008 ABC Online,But James Cook University frog expert, Professor Ross Alford, says the frog has been found thriving in rainforests to the north and west of Cairns. Boardman's biggest job - Sep 12, 2008 Financial Mail (subscription),Prince Charles formed the Prince's Rainforests Project (PRP) because "tropical rainforests play a crucial role in cooling and cleaning the world's Global warning: Fossilised rainforest reveals how climate change ... - Sep 9, 2008 Daily Mail,By Daily Mail Reporter Prehistoric rainforests which grew on earth more than 300 million years ago were wiped out in the first known case of global warming, CONSEQUENCES OF DEFORESTATION - Sep 11, 2008 Mongabay.comRainforests around the world still continue to fall. Does it really make a difference? Why should anyone care if some plants, animals, mushrooms, Preservation 'a cheap option' - Sep 9, 2008 Financial Times,By Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent "Preserving the rainforests is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to cut emissions," says Stanley Fink, Govt to brief Cairns on tourism rescue plan - Sep 7, 2008 ABC Online,...and being that asset we need to ensure that we keep stimulating visitation to the iconic Great Barrier Reef and our world heritage rainforests," he said. Dutch visitor finds his ‘Neverland’ - Sep 13, 2008 The Borneo Post,...“This is perhaps one of the very last places on Earth where the rainforests and their inhabitants remain largely undisturbed by human activities. Belize: Beyond the Reef - Sep 5, 2008 ABC NewsNow instead of spending your time underwater searching for tropical fish, you can travel around the rainforests, where you can still find jaguars, [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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