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What's the current deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest?
2015-05-16 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Nearly two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil, making it the biggest component in the region's deforestation rate. Helpfully, Brazil also has the best systems for tracking deforestation, with the government and Imazon, a national civil society organization, releasing updates on a quarterly and monthly basis using MODIS satellite data, respectively. Both the Brazilian government and Imazon release more accurate data on an annual basis using higher resolution Landsat satellite imagery....
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Brazil plans to nationalise rainforest in pioneering plan to protect Amazon
2015-05-10 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The Brazilian rainforest could be effectively nationalised under a draft bill being considered by the countrys MPs. The proposed legislation would recognise the sovereignty of Brazil over the Amazons natural resources and set up a national Amazonian policy council with the aim of enshrining environmental protection and regulating economic activities in the rainforest. Should the law be passed, companies wanting to operate in the area would require approval from the new state entity in return...
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Amazon rainforest losses impact on climate change, study shows
2015-04-21 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Human activity has removed more than one-tenth of trees and plants from the Amazon rainforest since the 1960s, a study shows. Widespread removal of trees has contributed to a rise in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, increasing the potential impact of climate change, researchers say. Deforestation of the Amazon accounted for 1.5 per cent of the increase in carbon dioxide levels seen since the mid-nineteenth century, the team says. However, this …
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Court rules deforestation Peruvian rainforest for chocolate was legal
2015-04-16 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: United Cacao didn't need authorization to clear its plantation near Tamshiyacu, said a court in Loreto, Peru, resolving for the time being one of a series of questions about the legality and environmental sustainability of companies connected with plantations entrepreneur Dennis Melka. Forest along an Amazon tributary near where the controversial Cacao del Peru Norte cocoa plantation is being developed. Photo by Morgan Erickson-Davis. A regional court in Loreto, Peru recently ruled that the...
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Rainforest Cafe Creator Opens The Boathouse at Disney
2015-04-16 14:00:00| National Real Estate Investor
Jonathan Maze Steve Schussler and his company, Schussler Creative Inc., are the brains behind some of the flashiest restaurants in the country. Schussler created Rainforest Cafe, which opened at the Mall of America in 1994 and put diners in the middle of a fake rainforest, complete with vast amounts of plastic greenery, mist and an animatronic alligator. read more
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