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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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Brazil's Climate Chief Dampens Hopes for COP16
It will be another four months until leaders from around the world gather for COP16 in Mexico, but expectations for the meeting's outcome are hardly optimistic. After last year's UN climate summit in Copenhagen produced a less-than-ideal result, the
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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
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Mystery: 500 Dead Penguins Wash Up on Brazilian Beaches
On the Average Year, Only About 10 Dead Penguins are Found in that AreaOver just the past 10 days, around 500 dead penguins have washed up on beaches in the Sao Paolo state of Brazil. What killed the black-and-white birds is still a
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TreeHugger Reports From the Heart of the Amazon
Perhaps the most striking thing about flying over the Amazon rainforest is how untouched it looks; there's no checkered quilt of farmland or veins of highway. From horizon to horizon it's nothing but an impossibly vast sea of green, inspiring the same
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Amazon Storm Killed Half a Billion Trees in Two Days
If you thought unscrupulous logging practices were the only threat to the world's largest rainforest, then think again. According to a new study, one extremely powerful storm in 2005 resulted in the deaths of an estimated 441 million
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Rainforest Clearing Increases Malaria Incidence Rate 48%
Malaria remains a deadly killer in broad swaths of South America, Africa
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Activists Send a Message by Cleaning Things Up a Bit
When police arrived to a tunnel in downtown Porto Alegre, Brazil, having received word that some youths were tagging its walls with graffiti, it must have seemed like a pretty clear case of vandalism. But after a few of the
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New, Green Museum of Tomorrow in Rio Unveiled
Rio has been going through a bit of a rough patch lately- it's been set on fire by a hot air balloon and hit hard by deadly torrential rains. But the city is far from beat: a key player in Brazil's plan to drastically reduce
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Brazil's Lula Slams "Gringo" Protests of Amazon Dam
Brazil's proposed construction of what would be the third largest hydroelectric dam on the planet has drawn ire from environmental groups the world over. The planned dam at Belo Monte, protestors say, will flood and destroy much of
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Balloon Blamed For Setting Rio de Janeiro on Fire
Photo via Global Voices Rio de Janeiro is a city known for its spirited festivities and all-night celebrations, but part of those revelries are being blamed for inadvertently setting a blaze on one of the city's hillside national parks over the weekend,
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Amazon Deforestation Increases Malaria Rate by 50%
A new report in the Center for Disease Control's journal Emerging Infectious Diseases highlights one more bad consequence of Amazon deforestation: In areas that have been cleared of trees incidence of malaria increase nearly
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Brazil's Deforestation Again Increasing As Economy Improves
Last summer you probably saw a number of encouraging reports showing that deforestation in Brazil was declining. However as Mongabay points out, new satellite data shows that deforestation is again increasing and may be
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The Best Green Cars and Technology From Michelin's 2010 Challenge Bibendum Show
French tire giant Michelin recently held its 10th Challenge Bibendum, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is a chance for Michelin to rally industry players around the flag of sustainable mobility and the future of the automobile. Here's me loo
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Hidden From Satellites, Amazon Burning Continues Even As Deforestation Slows
Here's an interesting wrinkle on the ongoing effort to slow Amazon deforestation: Reuters reports that even though tree-felling is indeed slowing, the area of land being burned by farmers is actually increasing,
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Indigenous Amazonians Prepare For War to Stop Massive Hydroelectric Dam on Xingu River
Brazil's planned 11 gigawatt Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River (a tributary of the Amazon) has raised a lot of protest in the past few months--and some comparisons of life
