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Environment News tagged with amazon

Amazon's Low Salt Content Keeps Carbon Emissions at Bay
Environment  (tags: News, study, world, amazon, Amazon Rainforest, carbon emissions )

Katie
- 10 days ago - news.preview.nationalgeographic.com
Supposedly the most robust of the world's rain forests, the Amazon jungle suffers from "chronic malnutrition" due to a lack of salt, according to the lead scientist behind a new study.
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BP Destroys Savanna and Threatens Brazilian Rainforest.Take Action.
Environment  (tags: Rainforest destruction, Amazon, Savanna, Brazilian Government, BP=British Pollution )

Panda Eat
- 69 days ago - rainforest-rescue.org
BP never a friend of the planet,despite it's slick propaganda,are planning to invest 4 billion euro's in Brazil for the production of sugar cane ethanol.Please send letters opposing these earth destroying vast plantations.
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Tell Nike, Adidas, and Timberland to Protect the Amazon and the Climate ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, Amazon, habitat, protection, wildlife, nature )

Cher
- 143 days ago - change.org
Please send a message to brands like Nike, Timberland, Adidas, Reebok, Clark's, and Geox that you care about where their leather comes from and that it cannot come from Amazon deforestation.
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Greenpeace Says Big Brands Destroying Rainforest
Environment  (tags: Brazil, amazon, rainforest, deforestation, animals, destruction, cattle, fires, burning, pollution, CO2emissions, environment, globalwarming, ecosystems, humans, nature, wildlife, trees, Sustainabililty, conservation, climatechange, research, study )

Tom
- 150 days ago - environmentalleader.com
The expansion of Brazil's cattle sector is driving the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and threatens to undermine Brazil's pledge to cut deforestation by 72 percent by 2018. The cattle industry is the largest source of deforestation in the world.
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The Amazon Needs Climate Action NOW ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, climate-change, protection, Amazon, habitat, nature )

Cher
- 155 days ago - change.org
Last month our climate scored a big victory in Poland - where the Prime Minister Donald Tusk agreed to personally attend the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen. Let's make this month's victory a Brazilian one.
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World Bank Withdraws Funding for Amazon Deforestation
Environment  (tags: environment, deforestation, Amazon, funds, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 157 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank, has withdrawn a U$ 90 million loan to Brazil's cattle giant Bertin. The loan was used by the company to further expand into the Amazon region, causing destruction of
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Amazon Rainforest Crisis Alert
Environment  (tags: Amazon, AmazonRainforest, rainforest, environment, peru, americas, u.s., world, news, youtube, blog, crisis, alert, public warning, media, SouthAmerica, politics, business, science, tech, technology, research, oil, industry, HillaryClinton, ClimateChange )

SirRobert
- 159 days ago - thefifthknight.blog.friendster.com
There are those who still do not fully understand the emergency level nature and environmental impact repercussions from the loss of protester's human rights, and then following directly into the total extinction of the world's rainforests and species!
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Take Action: Save the Amazon Rainforest - Care2 Petition Site
Environment  (tags: AmazonRainforest, amazon, environment, petition, take-action, government, politics, u.s., SouthAmerica, americas, americans, activism, activists, Care2, C2NN, habitatdestruction, forests, trees, protection, research, world, business, oil, ClimateChange )

SirRobert
- 159 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Here is your chance to take yet another step toward protecting the world's dwindling natural rainforests! I challenge everyone to sign and take the time to forward to at least 25 friends, and pledge to do everything imaginable to Save the Rainforests.
24 comments
Tell Top Shoe Brands to Protect the Amazon and the Climate ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, Amazon, deforestation, leather, cattle, destruction, habitat, protection, nature, wildlife, greenhousegases )

Cher
- 172 days ago - change.org
Tell the CEOs of Adidas, Nike, Timberland and others to support a moratorium on Amazon deforestation and to help us fight for a global solution to save the Amazon and our climate. We cannot afford to lose an acre of Amazon every 8 seconds because of our
17 comments
The Kayapo Nation: Protectors Of The Amazon - Video
Environment  (tags: kayapo, amazon, tribe, nation, world, video, conservation, environment, ecology, nature, water, food, spiritual, health, well-being, society, culture, ecosystems, protection, activists, interesting, humans, ClimateChange, forests, habitat, endangered )

SirRobert
- 178 days ago - conservation.org
For the Kayapo tribe, the rainforest is more than just a forest, it is their source of food, water, shelter, medicine and spiritual well-being. The Kayapo clearly understand the necessity for a mutual respect within the balance of nature!
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Carry on Up the Amazon?
Environment  (tags: environment, Amazon, destruction, protection, nature, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, forests )

Cher
- 236 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Can you visit the world's greatest ecosystem without contributing to its destruction? John O'Mahony heads into the Brazilian jungle to find out.
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McMeat Is Destroying Amazon Rainforest
Environment  (tags: Amazon, rainforests, clearcutting, ranchers, cattle, fast food, mcdonald's, burgers, sustainabililty, environment, food, humans, conservation, consumers, climate-change, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, environment, ecosystems )

Tom
- 245 days ago - sustainabilityninja.com
Burger-crazy America imports over 200 million pounds of beef from Central America every year. Grazing land is needed, and the only way for grazing land to appear in a densely forested region is from clear-cutting the rainforest.
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37,000 Sq Km of Amazon Rainforest Destroyed or Damaged in 2008
Environment  (tags: Brazil, amazon, rainforest, indigenous people, Indians, land, court, government, humans, environment, globalwarming, protection, nature, satellite, conservation, sustainable )

Tom
- 245 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Farmers, speculators, and ranchers set vast areas ablaze to prepare for the 2008 growing season. A new satellite system provides a more detailed look at forest degradation and may help Brazil stop deforestation before it occurs.
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Brazilian Court Ruling Backs Amazon Rainforest Reservation
Environment  (tags: Brazil, good news, amazon, rainforests, indigenous people, Indians, land, court, government, humans, environment, globalwarming, protection, nature, conservation, sustainable )

Tom
- 245 days ago - google.com
Brazil's Supreme Court sided with Amazonian Indians in a land dispute that some have called critical for determining the future of the rainforest that sprawls the size of Western Europe and provides a critical cushion against global warming.
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PETITION: "Join the World in Telling Brazil "No" to Amazon Deforestation!"
Environment  (tags: AMAZON, destruction, ecosystems, climate-change, nature, habitat, wildlife, trees, animals, government )

Brenda
- 353 days ago - usactions.greenpeace.org
The Project of Law (PL) 6424/2005 bill is pending approval in the Brazilian Congress. If approved, it will be a lethal blow to all Brazilian forests, especially the Amazon.Brazilian Congress is actually turning its back on the Amazon and welcoming the des
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