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U.N. rejects Australia's bid to strip rainforest of heritage status
2014-06-24 09:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United Nations has unanimously rejected an Australian proposal to revoke the heritage status of 74,000 hectares (183,000 acres) of Tasmania's rainforest and enable them to be reopened to logging. Added to the World Heritage List in 1982, the Tasmanian Wilderness 'constitutes one of the last expanses of temperate rainforest in the world', says U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, and sprawls over more than one million hectares (2.47 million acres), or a fifth of the island. At a meeting in Doha,...
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Petrobras Gas Plant Travels 5,000 Kilometers Through Amazon Rainforest
2014-06-16 19:07:24| ENR.com: Headline News
How contractors in in Brazil pulled off a feat of epic proportions.
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One environmental activist is killed each week while trying save the Amazon rainforest
2014-06-15 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: No one could accuse Nilcilene Miguel de Lima of being easily afraid. When loggers beat her and burned down her home in Lábrea in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon the environmental activist refused to give up her struggle. When they killed her dog and frightened away the armed guards who had been sent to protect her, she carried on without them. But after they murdered her fellow campaigners and warned her she would be next, the mother of four finally fled. Today, she is in hiding hundreds...
Oil drilling causes widespread contamination in the Amazon rainforest
2014-06-13 20:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Decades of oil extraction in the Western Amazon has caused widespread pollution, raising questions about the impact of a new oil boom in the region, according to a team of Spanish researchers presenting at a conference in California. Led by Antoni Rosell-Mele of the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, the team assembled a database of chemical analyses taken from 18 wastewater dumping sites from 10 different Amazon tributaries from 1983 to 2013. They looked at nine pollutants including lead, mercury...
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The Amazon rainforest: Cutting down on cutting down
2014-06-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: IN THE 1990s, when an area of Brazilian rainforest the size of Belgium was felled every year, Brazil was the worlds environmental villain and the Amazonian jungle the image of everything that was going wrong in green places. Now, the Amazon ought to be the image of what is going right. Government figures show that deforestation fell by 70% in the Brazilian Amazon region during the past decade, from a ten-year average of 19,500 km2 (7,500 square miles) per year in 2005 to 5,800 km2...
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