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Response: The threat to the Amazon rainforest should not be overstated | Comment is free | The Guardian

| tags redd | brazil | 03 Dec 2009 | comments (view)


Amazon could shrink by 85% due to climate change, scientists say | Environment | guardian.co.uk

| tags redd | brazil | 03 Dec 2009 | comments (view)


anidlersdream: A fisherman paddles through dead fish Saturday on the Manaquiri River, a tributary of the Amazon River, near Manaquiri, Brazil. A seasonal drought has lowered water levels, causing massive fish kills throughout the region. (Paulo Whitaker, Reuters)

anidlersdream:

A fisherman paddles through dead fish Saturday on the Manaquiri River, a tributary of the Amazon River, near Manaquiri, Brazil. A seasonal drought has lowered water levels, causing massive fish kills throughout the region. (Paulo Whitaker, Reuters)


| tags redd | brazil | 03 Dec 2009 | comments (view)


Photo from Reuters Pictures - A man walks across the bottom of a lake that forms part of the Amazon River system on the outskirts of Manaus News, photos, topics, and quotes

Photo from Reuters Pictures - A man walks across the bottom of a lake that forms part of the Amazon River system on the outskirts of Manaus News, photos, topics, and quotes


| tags redd | brazil | 03 Dec 2009 | comments (view)


Brazil Justice Net - A Peace and Social Justice News Network

| tags brazil | 18 Mar 2009 | comments (view)


The area of rainforest in the process of being deforested — razed but not yet cleared — surged in the Brazilian Amazon during 2008, according to new figures released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The announcement comes shortly after the Brazilian government reported a 4 percent increase in forest clearing for the year. (via Amazon rainforest damage surges 67% in 2008)

The area of rainforest in the process of being deforested — razed but not yet cleared — surged in the Brazilian Amazon during 2008, according to new figures released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The announcement comes shortly after the Brazilian government reported a 4 percent increase in forest clearing for the year. (via Amazon rainforest damage surges 67% in 2008)


| tags brazil | redd | 17 Jan 2009 | comments (view)