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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
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Rebecca Tarbotton on Pressuring and Inspiring the Opposition (Podcast)
The Rainforest Action Network tackles a whole lot more than rainforests, and Executive Director Rebecca Tarbotton is leading her organization to the front in a slew of fights. Her preferred tactic: "equal parts pressure and inspiration." To sway the
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Most Popular Articles of August: 13-Year-Old's Science Project, 121-Year-Old's All-Natural Diet, and More (Slideshow)
The long Labor Day weekend (for our American readers, at least) is a bittersweet moment; the extra day off also signals the end of summer. In honor of another season gone, here are the 10 most popular stories we covered in August,
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The Week in Animal News: New Monkey Species, Panda Poo Power, and More (Slideshow)
Despite the myriad threats to life in the Amazon rain forest, scientists are still discovering new life there. This week, in the largely unexplored Mato Grosso region of Brazil, scientists not only spotted several extremely rare
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World's Oldest Person Found Thriving in the Amazon
While the Amazon rainforest is certainly known to be teeming with life, it turns out that the people who live there are too. Maria Lucimar Pereira, an indigenous Amazonian belonging to the Kaxinawá tribe of
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Enormous Underground River Discovered in the Amazon
The sprawling Amazon rainforest is easily one of the most fascinating and mysterious regions on the planet, what with its dark, dense vegetation that stretches across the horizon like an unimaginable vast sea of green, home to
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Google Begins Mapping For Street View in the Amazon
It is one of the most remote and biodiverse regions on the planet, with a cultural and ecological treasure-trove typically reserved only for those hardy and adventurous enough to unlock it. But soon, experiencing the wonders of the
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Drug Traffickers Threaten 'Uncontacted' Amazon Tribe
Little is known about the Amazon's few remaining uncontacted tribes, who for centuries have practiced their traditional ways of life in the remotest regions of the world's largest rainforest -- but many fear that they may
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Head of Brazil's Environmental Protection Agency Says It Is Not His Job to Protect the Environment
As the President of Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA, which oversees regulationion in the world's largest rainforest, Curt Trennepohl has a very important position -- the only
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Species Placed in Simulator of Earth's Future Climate
If the projections of countless scientists are correct, the climate of this planet will be markedly different by the end of this century -- but for a group of plants and animals, that future is now. A team of biologists have
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Vietnam Era Weapon Being Used to Clear the Amazon
Agent Orange is one of the most devastating weapons of modern warfare, a chemical which killed or injured an estimated 400,000 people during the Vietnam War -- and now it's being used against the Amazon rainforest. According to
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New Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Discovered in Brazil
In the dense rainforest of the western Amazon, researchers from Brazil's Indian protection agency have identified a new tribe of uncontacted indigenous people. Authorities say the remote group likely numbers around 200 members, living in
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Ecosia Search Engine Raises $330,000+ For Amazon Rainforest
Green search engine Ecosia was already making waves at its first birthday, by which point it had contributed $160,000 to WWF's Jureuena rainforest project in Brazil. Now, six months later, the search engine (which is
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Two Environmentalists 'Executed' in the Brazilian Amazon
According to reports from Brazilian media, two environmentalists known for their outspoken opposition to deforestation in the Amazon have been killed in a manner investigators are describing as an execution. José Cláudio
