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William Grant & Sons' Hendrick's Amazonia gin - Product Launch
2019-10-02 16:06:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
William Grant & Sons has launched a "tropical" flavoured Hendrick's gin exclusively to the Global Travel Retail channel.
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Massive Belo Monte Dam Rises in Amazonia
2015-04-27 21:25:17| ENR.com: Headline News
Engineers call the hydropower complex the most daring project under way in Brazil.
Brazil Amazon: Drone to scan for ancient Amazonia
2015-02-14 04:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Scientists are to scan the Amazon forest in Brazil to look for evidence of occupation by ancient civilisations. A drone will be sent up with a laser instrument to peer through the canopy for earthworks that were constructed thousands of years ago. The UK-led project is trying to determine how big these communities were, and to what degree they altered the landscape. The data is likely to inform policies on sustainable forest use today. Researchers announced the initiative at the annual...
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Most carbon-dense ecosystem in Amazonia mapped first time
2014-12-16 07:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The highest concentration of carbon in parts of Amazonia is not stored in trees, but below the ground as peat, according to new University of Leeds research. Mapping and quantifying carbon stored in the largest area of peatland forest in Amazonia, a geological basin almost the size of England, the researchers estimated that more than three billion tonnes of carbon is stored within this ecosystem. While Amazonian forests are known to harbour large stores of carbon in their trees, the findings...
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