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Indigenous group: Brazil using military to force Amazon dams
2013-04-08 14:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An Amazonian community has threatened to "go to war" with the Brazilian government after what they say is a military incursion into their land by dam builders. The Munduruku indigenous group in Para state say they have been betrayed by the authorities, who are pushing ahead with plans to build a cascade of hydropower plants on the Tapajós river without their permission. Public prosecutors, human rights groups, environmental organizations and Christian missionaries have condemned what they call...
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Deforestation takes flight again in the Amazon
2013-04-08 03:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: Last week, as some of us were heading off for the long holiday weekend (Easter is a holiday here in Brazil), the Brazilian government was quietly releasing deforestation trends showing an increase in deforestation for the first time in five years. These numbers use the DETER rapid response satellite system, a system that provides estimates of deforestation rates every month. Over the time period documented, August 2012 to February 2013, the rates increased an estimated 26.82% and an area of the...
Amazon Web Services and Google lower cloud pricing
2013-04-05 17:49:35| InfoWorld: Top News
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on all Compute Engine pricing. Google has also expanded the number of virtual servers users can choose from and made its cloud more Euro friendly.
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Killings over land continue in the Amazon
2013-04-04 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Wednesday, in the Brazilian state of Pará, the trial begins of three men accused of murdering José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria do Espirito Santo, who had campaigned against loggers and ranchers for years. Their assassinations in May 2011 generated international outrage, just like that of Chico Mendes, 25 years ago, and that of the American-born nun Dorothy Stang in 2005. "This trial exposes the problems and challenges in the Amazon today," says the Brazilian political ecologist...
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Foreign demand for beef, soybeans adds pressure on Amazon forest
2013-04-04 11:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rising foreign demand for beef and soybeans will tempt Brazil to clear more of the Amazon rainforest, in a reversal of recent success in slowing forest losses, a study said on Thursday. About 30 percent of deforestation in Brazil in the decade to 2010 was due to farmers and ranchers seeking land to expand export production of beef and soybeans, against about 20 percent in the 1990s, the report said. "Trade is emerging as a key driver of deforestation in Brazil," according to experts at the...
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