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Deforestation! Will it End the World? »
Posted by: WikiMap 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Deforestation means extensive cutting down of trees resulting in total destruction of an entire forest. The regeneration and restoration of the ecosystem of the destroyed ...
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Earth Alert: A Photographic Response To Climate Change »
Posted by: Mikunited 2 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Earth Alert: A Photographic Response To Climate Change
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Short Boom,Long Bust Of Deforestation »
Posted by: Mikunited 6 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
The Brazilian government has long had a twin-track approach to the Amazon, which contains about 40% of the world's remaining rainforest.
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Major brands implicated in Amazon destruction »
Posted by: gpsea1 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Just as protecting the world’s forests is rapidly becoming a recognized necessity for fighting climate change, we have discovered that major fashion, food and ...
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Gringos Must Pay To Save Amazon: Lula »
Posted by: newsguy2005 3 weeks, 2 days ago in Political News
Brazil president Lula da Silva said Thursday that gringos must pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting that rich, Western countries have are at fault ...
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Forests: Carbon Sink or Carbon Bomb »
Posted by: gpsea1 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Deforestation contributes to global warming. A rising Earth temperature kills trees and damages forests. Dying trees release more carbon. Atmospheric carbon increases planet temperatures.
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SHUTDOWN! Forest destruction blocked by Greenpeace to save the climate »
Posted by: gpsea1 1 month, 1 week ago in News
On the eve of Barack Obama's arrival in Asia for his first official visit and while the United States continues to block progress ahead ...
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Greenpeace calls on Indonesian government to arrest forest destroyers instead of harassing climate defenders »
Posted by: gpsea1 1 month ago in News
Greenpeace today marched to the Indonesian Embassy to call on its government to carry the full extent of environmental law on companies that are destroying ...
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Amazon Deforestation Shoots Up in June - Forest the Size of Los Angeles Cleared in One Month : TreeHugger »
Posted by: suzanek 4 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Though Brazil has pledged to slow Amazon deforestation, and several groups are making headlines trying to tackle the leading cause of that deforestation
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Greenpeace launches online guerrilla stunt to save Indonesian rainforests - Digital Media »
Posted by: gpsea1 9 months ago in News
SINGAPORE - Greenpeace and Yahoo, along with Bates141, PhotoLibrary and Free Range Creative, have launched an interactive guerrilla campaign to garner global support for the vanishing ...
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Amazon deforestation 'record low' »
Posted by: WikiMap 1 month, 1 week ago in News
The level of deforestation in the Amazon has dropped by 45% and is the lowest on record since monitoring began 21 years ago, Brazil's ...
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Brazil: ‘Gringos’ must pay to save Amazon - World environment- msnbc.com »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 3 weeks, 4 days ago in Science & Technology
MANAUS, Brazil - Brazil's president said that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental ...
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Biofuels Not Enough to Offset Damage Caused by Deforestation »
Posted by: suzanek 5 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
A contentious topic that we've often seen batted around in policy circles and scientific forums over the past few months has concerned the long-term ...
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Rainforest is worth more standing »
Posted by: Emmanuel70 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A new analysis has shown that payments to reduce carbon emissions from the forests could generate more income than palm oil production on deforested land.
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Behind the Scenes: Amazon Deforestation: Earth's Heart and Lungs Dismembered »
Posted by: GregD 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Splintered, charred wood litters the outskirts of an expansive ranch that lies on recently cleared land in the Brazilian Amazon. On the newly planted pasture ...
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