Tag: Amazonia - Page 4
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Score $10,000 for Your Environmental Project From Sambazon
A while back, I interviewed brothers Jeremy and Ryan Black, founders of Sambazon on Planet Green. A few weeks ago I got to meet the duo behind the delicious acai drink, in person, over a cup of coffee in NYC's Waverly Diner. The
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Celebrating Biodiversity in an Explosion of Colour at The Natural History Museum's Amazonia Show
In a celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity Lucy and Jorge Orta's Amazonia show at The Natural History Museum in London is a riotous display of colour and texture. This prolific pair of artists, famous for the exploration of social and
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3 Amazon Indigenous Villages Wiped Out with Deadly Epidemic
When I traveled to the Amazon Rainforest in 2008, scoping out the work of non-profit Projeto Saude e Alegria, I
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Amazon Rainforest Teeming With Undiscovered Life
The Amazon rainforest, one of the largest and most diverse ecosystem on the planet, has been a virtual treasure-trove for ambitious biologists aiming to uncover new species. In the last ten years alone, scientists have identified 1,200
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Rivers Disappearing in Drought-Stricken Amazon
In places throughout the Amazon, some stretches of the region's most important rivers and tributaries have dried up almost entirely, reducing the normally flowing waterways to a vast plain of broken clay and mud. For some
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Brazil to Auction Off Virginia-Sized Section of Amazon to Timber Companies
It may seem shocking, but according to reports by Reuters, Brazil is preparing to auction off big chunks of the Amazon rainforest to timber companies. By year-end 2.47 millions of acres of forests will go
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Marina Silva Wants to Be Brazil's Greenest President
On Sunday, nearly 136 million Brazilians will be heading to the polls to elect a new president, and for a country on the rise with such a wealth of natural beauty, there may be more at stake than just politics. Among the leading
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Amazon Road Workers Find Ancient Earth Carvings
Road workers in Brazil were preparing to pave a highway through the Amazon rainforest recently, when they made an important archeological discovery --
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Peru's Multi-city Festival AMO AMAZONÃA "Leaves A Positive Trace"
With numerous dire (and relatively not-so-dire) predictions about the fate of the Amazon being broadcast, it's not often that we hear something positive rising out of such a critical situation -- especially a multi-city
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Amazon Rainforest Is A Self-Contained Cloud-Producing Biogeochemical Reactor
The fact that the Amazon rainforest produces its own weather is well known and well publicized. Some new research from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry reveals interesting detail on how that works and how the
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Amazon Deforestation Down 16% Over Past Year, New Data Shows
According to preliminary data from Brazilian NGO Imazon, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 16% over the past twelve months, with 1,488 square kilometers (574 square miles) of forest cleared. All that tree
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James Cameron Hits the Amazon To Stop the Belo Monte Dam (Video)
In the months since "Avatar"struck major environmental themeswhile banking nearly $3 billion, James Cameron, an avid environmentalist, has been very busy. He's been bringing his celebrity to fight the oil and coal
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How a US Ghost Town Got in the Heart of the Amazon
Traveling through the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, one might expect to run across many strange and fascinating things -- but an American ghost town probably wouldn't be one of them. Yet deep in the world's largest rainforest lies
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Record-Breaking Amazon Trek Nears Completion
853 days ago, Ed Stafford took the first steps of what would become a record-breaking trek, following the length of the Amazon river as it winds its way across the South American continent. After experiencing countless
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Should The Galapagos Be Taken Off The Endangered Sites List?
Yesterday Brian wrote Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List, concluding:
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How Brazil Cut Deforestation Rates to Record Lows
Traveling from the heart of the Amazon rainforest to the Tropical savannah climate of the Brazilian capital of Brasilia offers a lesson in contrasts -- patches of forest and deforestation are replaced with monolithic white government buildings, poor
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Can Sustainability Grow in a Deforested Rainforest?
Thousands of years ago, a tribe of indians settled near modern day Santarem, nestled on the banks of where the Tapajós River joins Amazon in the state Pará, Brazil, living harmoniously in the region's lush rainforest. Time, however, have not been kind
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A Remote Amazon Oil Facility Tries to Go Green
The tiny town of Urucu, deep in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, could easily be seen as some sort of eco-paradise. Although it's surrounded by lush rainforest and is accessible only by boat or plane, Urucu features all the
