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rainforest stories: 14 news summaries

Warming Earth Down to Its 'Last Chance': Charles

Prince warns of catastrophe if world continues to balk at taking action

May 28, 09 9:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prince Charles warned yesterday that the world's unwillingness to take action on climate change means disaster is looming, the Daily Telegraph reports. The prince, addressing the Nobel Laureates Symposium, said that although a "mercifully small—if vociferous—number" of people still reject the science of climate change, a far... More »

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climate change • environment • global warming • Prince Charles • rainforest • deforestation

 Princes, Celebs, Frog 
 Team Up in Green Vid 

Charles joined by sons, A-listers to promote project

May 5, 09 1:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Princes William and Harry are joined by a cast of superstars—and a belching digital frog—in a video helping their father promote environmental awareness, the Mirror reports. Harrison Ford, Robin Williams, Daniel Craig, and the Dalai Lama are among those appearing in the clip promoting Prince Charles’ Rainforests Project.... More »

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entertainment • environment • MySpace • Prince William • Prince Charles • Prince Harry • rainforest • online videos • celebrity • Dalai Lama • Daniel Craig • Harrison Ford • Robin Williams

 Climate Change 
 Doom Looms for 
 85% of Amazon 

Death of much of the rainforest is inevitable even under most optimistic scenario

Mar 12, 09 1:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Climate change may be a bigger threat to the Amazon rainforest than all the chainsaws in the world, the Guardian reports. New research predicts a global temperature rise of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit—widely believed to be the best-case scenario even if carbon emissions are slashed—would kill off up... More »

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climate change • environment • global warming • rainforest • global temperature • Amazon rainforest

 Save the Rainforest? 
 Nature May Have It Covered 

New jungle in the tropics might outpace deforestation

Jan 30, 09 12:18 PM CST
(Newser) - With all the talk of how much primeval rainforest disappears every year, it might come as a surprise to hear that much more new forest is springing up to replace it. Although new jungle taking over abandoned or destroyed farms in tropical nations is good for the planet—the UN... More »

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endangered species • environment • conservation • Panama • rainforest • carbon sinks • deforestation • jungle • reforestation


 Greenies Trip Up 
 Jersey Boardwalk Plans 

Use of Amazon wood contributes to global warming, activists insist

Jan 10, 09 5:44 PM CST
(Newser) - Tourists swarming New Jersey’s most popular shore this spring probably won’t notice the wooden planks underfoot, but officials and environmentalists have been fighting over them, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Wildwood's plan to import lumber from Brazilian rain forests—for a $3.5 million boardwalk renovation—has angered greenies... More »

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New Jersey • Brazil • rainforest • beach • environmentalists

OPINION

 Borneo Threatened 
 by Green Gold Rush 

New ideas on conservation needed with island's biodiversity under attack

Oct 27, 08 1:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Borneo, the Texas-sized island whose rain forests are astonishingly rich in biodiversity, has been plundered for its other riches—everything from rhino horns to coal to oil—for centuries. Now, with the market for palm oil, dubbed green gold, booming, oil-palm plantations threaten the remaining forest, Mel White writes in... More »

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Indonesia • rainforest • Malaysia • biodiversity • Borneo

 At 22.3 Inches, 
 Insect Is 
 World's 
 Longest 

Just-discovered Phobaeticus chani roams the Borneo jungle, looking twiggy

Oct 17, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - A stick insect called Phobaeticus chani has claimed the distinction of world's longest insect, beating out its nearest competitor by an inch, the Independent reports. Named after the amateur naturalist who brought it to scientists' attention, the bug measures 22.3 inches with its legs outstretched. A treetop rainforest dweller,... More »

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rainforest • world record • species • insects • Borneo

In Remote Amazon, Complex Towns Once Flourished

Archaeologists see advanced civilization in areas since overtaken by rain forest

Aug 29, 08 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers have unearthed remains of densely populated, complex urban towns in a remote region of the Amazon River Basin, the BBC reports. In an area of western Brazil thought to be virgin forest, researchers found extensive and advanced human activity, including roads, farming, wetland management, and what appear to be... More »

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archaeology • Brazil • rainforest • anthropology • ancient cities • Amazon rainforest

Colombia to Americans: Cocaine Kills Environment

Drug-makers are destroying Colombia's precious rainforest

Jul 19, 08 5:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Colombia is adding a new tactic in its campaign to persuade Americans to stop buying cocaine: a plea for the environment. The government wants to spread the message to users—especially, say, wealthy professionals who dutifully recycle but also partake of the drug—that cocaine growers are running roughshod over... More »

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drugs • cocaine • rainforest • Colombia • drug use • coca • Amazon rainforest

Germany Pledges Billions for Rainforest Protection

Funds tripled by 2012, add $785M a year after

May 28, 08 2:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Germany will spend billions of euros protecting tropical rainforests in an effort to halt global warming. Chancellor Angela Merkel said today at the United Nations' biodiversity conference that Germany will increase its funding for the conservation of rainforests from $330 million to $1.1 billion in the next three years... More »

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environment • United Nations • Angela Merkel • Germany • global warming • carbon offsets • rainforest • Chancellor of Germany • tropical forests • biodiversity conference

Marriott
Goes Green
to Gain Green

Helping rainforest
also helps hotel
chain's bottom line

Apr 8, 08 3:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Marriott is making a big environmental push, helping to protect Brazilian rainforests and implementing lower energy consumption and more recycling in many of its hotels worldwide, the Washington Post reports. And although consumer demand is one reason for the changes, the primary drive seems less altruistic. "We've got a... More »

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climate change • carbon footprint • environmentalism • rainforest • Marriott • hotel • JW Marriott Jr.

Biofuels Will Add to Heating Climate, Studies Say

Land likely to be used for production is already helping absorb carbon

Feb 8, 08 8:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Biofuels could hurt Earth more than help it, two new studies conclude. Over 30 years, argues one, corn-based ethanol would spout twice the greenhouse gas of regular gasoline; the other notes environmental damage likely to be wreaked by chopping rainforests and other areas for production, the Washington Post reports. The... More »

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climate change • energy • environment • global warming • ethanol • gas • rainforest • biofuel

Rainforests Still Fall
at Shocking Rates

Summit proposes financial rewards for conservation efforts

Feb 3, 08 5:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Rainforests continue to vanish at "alarming" rates worldwide despite decades of scientific warnings, experts say. Tropical trees are falling at 60 acres per minute—up 10 from a generation ago—accounting for roughly 20% of Earth's carbon emissions. Environmental leaders plan to preserve forests with a carbon trading system,... More »

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climate change • environment • United Nations • rainforest • carbon • deforestation

Burning Forests Heat Globe

Rainforests absorbe CO2, but burning them pumps out 25% of all greenhouse gasses

May 14, 07 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Destruction of rainforests is a bigger source of global warming than all the planes, cars and factories in the world, concludes a study reported today in the Independent. It's not just the loss of forests, which absorb CO2, that's the problem. It's the rampant burning of those forests that actually... More »

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climate change • environment • Indonesia • greenhouse gases • global warming • Brazil • rainforest • deforestation • carbon emissions

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