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With deforestation rising, Brazil sends more police to the Amazon
2013-08-20 00:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: With deforestation pacing more than 90 percent ahead of last year's rate according to an estimate released today, Brazil said it has increased the number of environmental inspectors in the Amazon rainforest. Speaking at a seminar last week, Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said the federal government has sent a record number of inspectors into the Amazon region as part of an effort to combat surging deforestation. Authorities are working with the national police, intelligence agencies, the...
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Duh, Amazon tops Gartner's cloud Magic Quadrant, but number two may surprise you
2013-08-19 23:13:52| IT Services - Topix.net
Amazon outranks the field in Gartner IaaS rankings, but there were lots of other winners including CSC, Microsoft, Tier 3, Joyent and Rackspace.
The world has failed us: Ecuador ditches plan to save Amazon from oil drilling
2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A ground-breaking scheme that would have preserved swathes of Ecuadors Amazon Rainforest has been abandoned after raising just $13m (8.3m) of the $3.6bn it needed to operate. In a development that human rights and environmental campaigners described as a huge missed opportunity, President Rafael Correa has lifted a moratorium on drilling for oil in the remote Yasuni national park, which he had imposed in return for $3.6bn of compensation payments from wealthy governments. However, three...
Ecuador shelves big idea for saving the Amazon
2013-08-16 19:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The fate of the most biodiverse rainforest on Earth has been decided: it will be drilled for oil. On Thursday Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said he has abandoned a plan that would have prohibited oil extraction from Yasuni National Park in Eastern Ecuador in exchange for payments to leave the crude in the ground. Correa had sought $3.6 billion in contributions - equivalent to roughly half the value of the 846 million barrels of oil estimated to lie under the rainforest reserve - but managed...
Ecuador approves Amazon oil drilling
2013-08-16 09:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Ecuador has abandoned a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to drill for oil in previously untouched parts of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest. President Rafael Correa said rich nations had failed to back the initiative, leaving Ecuador with no choice but go ahead with drilling. The park is one of the most biodiverse areas in the world. Hundreds of people gathered in Quito to protest against Mr Correa's decision. Oil exploitation has been taking place in...
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