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30 Years of Oil Pollution Threatening Western Amazon
2014-06-16 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The Western Amazon, an area of unparalleled biological and cultural diversity, may have been contaminated by widespread oil pollution over the last 30 years, according to a new study. Most of the world's tropical rainforests are oil and gas goldmines. Oil production in the Western Amazon began in the 1920s and peaked in the 1970s, but current growing global demand is stimulating a renewed growth in oil and gas extraction - nearly 70 percent of the Peruvian Amazon was tapped for oil between 1970...
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After Greenpeace complaint, UK timber giant removes controversial Amazon wood from shelves
2014-06-16 19:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: After being implicated in a Greenpeace report on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, UK building supplier Jewson has pulled controversial wood from its shelves until it can conduct a full investigation on the timber's origin. Greenpeace said Jewson will await the results of the audit before deciding whether to begin selling products made out of Ip, a timber that the environmental group is widely laundered in the Brazilian Amazon. Greenpeace has found that some Ip producers and traders...
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Petrobras Gas Plant Travels 5,000 Kilometers Through Amazon Rainforest
2014-06-16 19:07:24| ENR.com: Headline News
How contractors in in Brazil pulled off a feat of epic proportions.
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Department of Labor Investigates Worker Deaths at Amazon Warehouses
2014-06-16 17:51:57| IT Services - Topix.net
The Department of Labor said this week that it's examining two worker deaths at warehouses operated by Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer.
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One environmental activist is killed each week while trying save the Amazon rainforest
2014-06-15 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: No one could accuse Nilcilene Miguel de Lima of being easily afraid. When loggers beat her and burned down her home in Lábrea in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon the environmental activist refused to give up her struggle. When they killed her dog and frightened away the armed guards who had been sent to protect her, she carried on without them. But after they murdered her fellow campaigners and warned her she would be next, the mother of four finally fled. Today, she is in hiding hundreds...
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