Topic: Amazon Rain Forest
Monitoring carbon emissions from remote tropical forests is becoming easier with the help of 3-D and satellite technology, giving a boost to...
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Wendy Zukerman, reporter. . More than 500 people have been bitten by rabies-infected vampire bats in the Peruvian Amazon.. . The BBC reports that...
File this one under "things that are scarier than the Twilight series": The BBC reports that four children in Peru's Awajun indigenous tribe have...
2010 has been a year of climate gaffes. Now another one?. . Yes, another retraction on climate and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
SORRISO, Brazil (Reuters) - Talk of ecological diversity or saving rare species does not fly very far in Mato Grosso.The state is Brazil's top soy producer, churning out an annual harvest of about 18 million tones. Fields of emerald green line ...
Peruvian lawmakers suspended a controversial law that eased restrictions on lumber harvesting in the Amazon rain forest, days after it sparked clashes between police and indigenous protesters, killing dozens of people.The legislature agreed by a 59 to 49
Peru lawmakers Wednesday suspended a decree that had eased restrictions on lumber harvesting in the Amazon rain forest after it sparked weekend clashes between indigenous people and police, claiming at least 35 lives.The legislature agreed to suspend decr
Nine police have been killed and seven are missing after an attempt to rescue 38 of their rank who were taken hostage by protesting Indians in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Scientists say oil exploration is the latest, possibly greatest, threat to AmazonOil exploration in the Amazon rain forest represents the latest, perhaps greatest, threat to preserving what remains of the world's largest remaining tropical wilderness, sci