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Alimak Elevators Enable Servicing of Electricity Power Lines Over the Amazon River
2013-12-23 14:34:00| Offshore Technology
Two Alimak rack and pinion elevators were installed in transmission towers along the Amazon river.
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Assassination 25 years ago catalyzed movement to protect the Amazon
2013-12-23 00:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Twenty-five years ago today, Chico Mendes, an Amazon rubber tapper, was shot and killed in front of his family at his home in Acre, Brazil at the age of 44. His assassination was the catalyst that sparked a much broader movement to protect the Amazon against rampant deforestation. The movement empowered a new generation of forest people and activists and would eventually culminate in millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest being set aside in reserves. But while the deforestation rate has...
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Rain Forest Warriors: How Indigenous Tribes Protect Amazon
2013-12-22 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The destruction of the Amazon in Brazil can be seen by satellite: Where logging roads have spread their tentacles and ranchers have expanded their grazing, all is brown. Beginning in the early 1980s, these photos from space lost more and more green, so that by 2004 the destruction seemed unstoppable. Brazil's deforestation rate had reached an alarming 27,000 square kilometers (nearly 17,000 square miles) per year. But stop it did-not everywhere, but at the borders of what appears from space...
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RV users help Amazon keep up with holiday rush
2013-12-22 12:36:57| IT Services - Topix.net
Twinkling lights, ornament-strewn trees and bustling campgrounds: Those are signs of the Christmas season in this Kentucky town, where the Amazon.com distribution center recruits an armada of RV owners as seasonal workers to help fill holiday orders.
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Alimak Elevators Enable Servicing of Power Lines over the Amazon River Deep in the Rainforest
2013-12-20 01:00:00| Power Technology
Two Alimak rack and pinion elevators were installed on transmission towers along the Amazon River. With each tower as tall as the Eiffel tower, the Alimak elevators provide access for critical servicing and maintenance.
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