Tag: Amazonia
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Illegal Amazon Gold: Fight to Protect the Amazon Unites Celebrity Artists, War Journalists, and You
"How are we going to protect it if we don't understand what's at stake?"
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Save an Endangered Cacao Tree with Cool Earth this Easter
Love chocolate? Help protect endangered cacao trees and the livelihoods of the Asháninka people.
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Google Street View Maps the Amazon
A new feature allows users to travel up the amazon, along rainforest trails, and through communities in one of the world's most remote regions.
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Orphaned Baby Manatee Rescued in the Amazon
After its mother was killed by poachers, this rescued manatee calf soon learned that it had more than a few friends on land.
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European Company Buys Rights to Amazon Tribe's Ancestral Land
The Amazon rainforest remains one of the most mysterious regions on the planet, home to an invaluable treasure-trove of cultural and ecological wealth -- but it too can be had for the right price.
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Ecuador Court Rejects Chevron Arbitration Ruling, Reopening $18 Billion Fine For Amazon Pollution
The legal battle has been drawn out for nearly 20 years now, but the latest news is potentially a good sign for the people of Ecuador.
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Spiraling Bamboo Science Tower To Observe Amazon Rainforest
A British charity and conservation group hopes to build a science center and tower out of locally-grown bamboo in the remote Amazon jungle.
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Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D Map of the Amazon
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher.
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Most Popular Articles of January: Astounding 3D Sculptures from Books, Indigenous Amazonian Child Burned to Death, and More
The best of January includes amazing landscape sculptures carved from old books, a logging horror in the Amazon, a cycling superhighway, and more.
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Africa's Rainforests May Be More Resilient To Climate Change Than Amazon's
It all comes down to the fact that over the past four millennia there have been more changes in climate there which these forests have been through.
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Crowdfunding Temporarily Halts Oil Extraction From Key Tract of Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador
A fundraiser was held last night that collected the $116 million necessary to temporarily halt oil exploitation in Yasuní National Park.
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Half of Brazilians in Fear of War Over the Amazon
According to the results of a new poll, half of all Brazilians surveyed are either certain, or strongly believe that within the next 20 years an attack will be waged on their homeland for control of the resource-rich Amazon rainforest.
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01M OneMoment. A New Biodegradable Shoe Concept
A biodegradable show for (almost) all occasions. A cradle to cradle design inspired by ancient Amazon inhabitants. Lightweight, compact and multi-use- it's up to you what you do with it as long as you make sure you compost it at the end of its life.
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David de Rothschild Prepares for a New Adventure in the Amazon (Interview)
David de Rothschild sailed across the Pacific in a boat made of plastic to raise awareness of ocean pollution. His next adventure takes him to the Amazon.
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Bolivia Axes Plans to Build a Highway in the Amazon
It was a plan met with controversy from the start: to build a 185-mile long highway through Bolivia's Isibore Secure Reserve, an ecological gem in the Amazon rainforest. For months, thousands of mostly indigenous protesters marched
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The Week in Animals News: Mass Animal Escape, Sweaters for Penguins, and More (Slideshow)
Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.
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Amazon River Dolphin Populations in Rapid Decline
Of all the remarkable species that inhabit the Amazon river basin, few are as iconic or as threatened as Amazon river dolphins. For decades, the pinkish hued dolphins have been targeted by fishermen who view the skilled aquatic
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Amazon Drought Released 1.8 Billion Tons of CO2 in 2010
Last year, the Amazon rainforest experienced the worst drought on record, reducing normally flowing rivers to sun-baked stretches of dried mud and pushing the fragile ecosystem to the brink. And even more troubling than the
