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Human Impact on Amazon Rainforest Grossly Underestimated
2014-05-23 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Human impact on the Amazon rainforest has been grossly underestimated, according to an international team of researchers. The report detailed in the journal Global Change Biology says that selective logging and surface wildfires can amount to an annual loss of 54 billion tons of carbon from the Brazilian Amazon - that's equivalent to 40 percent of the yearly carbon loss from deforestation. Researchers estimated both above and below-ground carbon loss from selective logging and ground level...
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Ecuador: Permit Issued for Drilling in Amazon Reserve
2014-05-23 04:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Ecuadors government has issued an environmental permit for oil drilling in a pristine Amazon reserve that President Rafael Correa initially offered to exempt from exploration if rich countries would pay his government. Mr. Correa abandoned that effort last year because of insufficient interest and has spurned pleas by environmentalists to spare the Yasuni reserve. This month, Ecuadors electoral council declared invalid a petition seeking to prevent drilling in the 6,500-square-mile Amazon reserve....
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Gay Eagle Scout Urges Amazon to End Support for Boy Scouts
2014-05-23 02:21:35| IT Services - Topix.net
When Pascal Tessier became one of the country's first openly gay Eagle Scouts in February, he pledged to keep pushing the organization he loves to become more inclusive.
Deforestation: Carving up the Amazon
2014-05-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Next to a newly paved highway in the Peruvian Amazon, a discreet white-on-green sign urges travellers to protect the surrounding ecosystem. Let's care for the environment, let's conserve the forest, it reads. But the appeal comes too late for this spot in the region known as Madre de Dios. Before the route was paved a few years ago, tall trees lined the roadside, but the forest edge here now lies about half a kilometre away, beyond a jumble of underbrush and freshly cut trees where a cattle pasture...
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UK: Amazon fashion merge to strengthen offering
2014-05-20 16:36:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Online retail giant Amazon is to merge its standalone online shoe and accessories store with its current UK fashion offering in a bid to strengthen its fashion division.
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