Amazon Rainforest

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The Sunadded this to The Sun
Forestry
Rare bean found on UK beach was carried 5,000 miles by oceans and rivers from Amazon Rain Forest
thesun.co.uk - By Alex West
A RARE bean was found on a UK beach — after river and ocean currents carried it 5,000 miles from Brazil. The sea heart probably fell from a rain …
inhabitatadded this to News
Environment
8,000 barrels of oil spill in the Peruvian Amazon
inhabitat - by Perry Miller
Approximately 8,000 barrels of crude oil have spilled into the Amazon, and the Peru State oil company Petroperu says its because local indigenous …
Rainforests
Climate change: More than 1000 institutions pledge to withdraw investment from fossil fuels
independent.co.uk - Josh Gabbatiss
Governments, universities and banks have quit fossil fuels in their hundreds after a global campaign to convince institutions to pull their …
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
Politics is failing to protect the Amazon. It's time for finance to step up instead
weforum.org - Beatrice Crona
Global investors issued a stark warning to politicians at COP24, the 2018 United Nations climate summit in Poland. Companies with a combined …
Nonprofits
As slumdwellers battle to stay afloat, little help is on the way
trust.org - Thomson Reuters Foundation
* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Slumdwellers often struggle to access money or …
Gizmodo
Environment
1,000 Organizations Have Pulled Their Money Out of Fossil Fuels in Major Milestone
Gizmodo - Brian Kahn
There are a few levers of power that can shut down fossil fuel companies, one of which is to cut off their supply of money. And investors are …
Rainforests
Tell BlackRock: Stop Financing Amazon and Climate Destruction!
amazonwatch.org
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, contributes greatly to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the violation of indigenous rights …
Reutersadded this to Environmental
Environment
France's EDF faces delay in Brazil dam over clearing trees
Reuters - By Anthony Boadle
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A consortium led by Electricité de France SA is ready to fill the reservoir of a hydroelectric dam built in Brazil's soy belt, but could be delayed by a year over removal of trees
Time Outadded this to Time Out Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Want a spin on Christmas tamales this year? Look to Rosaliné and the Peruvian Amazon.
timeout.com - By Stephanie B
The holiday season means togetherness, presents and warming, themed cocktails, but throughout South America and the North American Southwest, you’d …
France 24
Brazil
Brazil keeps eye on Amazon deforestation with satellites
France 24 - France 24 EN
São José dos Campos (Brazil) (AFP) The vast Amazon forest may be hard to penetrate, posing a problem for authorities trying to stop illegal logging -- but there are still eyes in the sky keeping track
Science
Scientists overhaul corn domestication story with multidisciplinary analysis
phys.org - Smithsonian
Smithsonian scientists and collaborators are revising the history of one of the world's most important crops. Drawing on genetic and archaeological …
James Botaitisadded this to and I feel fine
Rainforests
Unprecedented New Map Unveils Illegal Mining Destroying Amazon
ecowatch.com - Lorraine Chow
A first-of-its-kind map has unveiled widespread environmental damage and contamination of the Amazon rainforest caused by the rise illegal mining. The …
Daytonmyersadded this to Frothy
World News
Environmental agents set machines on fire in Amazon rainforest to curb illegal mining 'epidemic'
cbc.ca
A miner runs away from an illegal cassiterite mine during an operation conducted by agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and …
Bloombergadded this to Tech
U.S. Dept. of Defense
SoftBank Plows $400 Million Into Synthetic Bio Startup Zymergen
Bloomberg - Lizette Chapman
Joshua Hoffman has done plenty of experimentation at Zymergen Inc., the robot-powered microbe factory he founded and leads. By building an army of …
Deforestation
Deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado savanna falls to record low
trust.org - Thomson Reuters Foundation
Activists fear deforestation could spike under policies proposed by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has pledged to slash penalties for …
Hallucinogenics
How Ayahuasca Works by Stuff You Should Know
megaphone.link
One day in the Amazon Basin, a shaman put together a plant containing DMT with a vine that allows the body to absorb DMT. The combination, a …
New York City
New York Seeks To Capture Amazon’s Heart By Hijacking Iconic ‘I Love NY’ Logo
designtaxi.com - By Mikelle Leow,
New York City fancies Amazon, and isn’t afraid to have its heart on its sleeve. In a bid to fend off other suitors and rally itself as the ideal place …
Environmentalism
Welcome to the Ex-jungle
grist.org
The rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest jumped 40 percent in 2002, with 9,840 square miles of forest lost, according to figures released …
24MATINS UKadded this to News
Rainforests
Amazon suffering 'epidemic' of illegal gold mines
24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP,
Illegal gold mining in the Amazon has reached “epidemic” proportions in recent years, causing damage to pristine forest and waterways, a conservation …
The Washington Postadded this to Business
Saudi Arabia
The United States isn’t the only country downplaying climate change
The Washington Post - By Max J. Rosenthal
In the United States, President Trump has turned climate skepticism into U.S. policy. Now that skepticism appears to be setting the tone for other world leaders to deny climate science or resist taking
Chris Mavadded this to Archaeology and History
British Columbia
Ancient Amazonian Chocolatiers
archaeology.org - ZACH ZORICH
Cacao seeds, the raw material used to make chocolate, were being consumed in southeastern Ecuador much earlier than archaeologists have thought. The …
The Epoch Timesadded this to Science News
Seafloor
Scientists Reveal Vast World of Creatures Living 3.5 Miles Underground
theepochtimes.com - Simon Veazey
Deep underground, deeper than the oceans, scientists have found a world teaming with life: creatures that together outweigh the total mass of all …
The Jakarta Postadded this to Arts and Culture
Human Rights
Amnesty International exhibition shows the human in human rights
thejakartapost.com - Kunang Helmi
Amnesty International is celebrating seven decades of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with an innovative photo exhibition, which was …
Liberal View
The Poland Climate Conference Is Awash in Corporate Meddling
thenation.com - Michelle Chen
The United Nations conference on climate change is supposed to be civil society’s last best hope for developing a global plan to cope with the global …
Reutersadded this to Environmental
Environment
Total invites activists to offshore French Guyana drilling site
Reuters - By Bate Felix
PARIS (Reuters) - Total invited environmental activists on Tuesday to visit a planned offshore drilling site in French Guyana and said the project would not endanger coral reefs in the region. The firm
Rainforests
Technological Fixes for Climate Change
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Image / Earth Energy / Air Pollution / Amazon Rainforest / Antarctica Image /Air Pollution /Amazon Rainforest /Antarctica Copyright ©, Futurism, LLC All …
The Guardianadded this to Top Stories
Science
Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms
The Guardian - Jonathan Watts
The Earth is far more alive than previously thought, according to “deep life” studies that reveal a rich ecosystem beneath our feet that is almost twice the size of that found in all the world’s oceans.
Los Angeles Timesadded this to World
World News
Ecuador faces a huge budget deficit because of loans it received from China - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times - By Chris Kraul
Rafael Correa wanted to fast-track development projects when he was president of Ecuador, so he borrowed billions of dollars from China. But the loans have come back to haunt his successor, Lenin Moreno,
Guardian Australiaadded this to World
World News
Illegal mining in Amazon rainforest has become an 'epidemic'
The Guardian - Dom Phillips in Rio de Janiero
An epidemic of illegal artisanal mining across the Amazon rainforest has been revealed in an unprecedented new map, pinpointing 2,312 sites in 245 areas across six Amazon countries. Called garimpo in artisanal
Rainforests
Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding
mongabay.com - Glenn Scherer
The Belo Monte dam under construction. Belo Monte displaced indigenous and traditional settlements and did serious harm to the Xingu River fishery. …