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Gold, Guns and Garimpeiros: France Battles Wildcat Miners in French Guiana (www.pulitzercenter.org)
As jittery investors have sought safe-haven investments in gold during the recession, the metal's price has soared on world markets. Meanwhile, some 30,000 illegal miners from Brazil are building... More
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COMMENTARY: Shame on Brazil: Stop the Amazon Mega-Dam Project Belo Monte (www.huntingtonnews.net)
International groups expressed in a joint letter their outrage and opposition against Brazil's plan to build Belo Monte, a mega-hydroelectric project. Belo Monte would be the third largest dam... More
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Brazil's mightiest biomes get mapped the IBA way (www.birdlife.org)
Brazil is a country of superlatives: big and biodiverse. Three of the most extensive biomes in the entire world — the Amazon Rainforest, the Pantanal Wetlands and the Cerrado savannas occur in... More
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Brazil backs $4-billion Peruvian hydropower project (www.andina.com.pe)
Lima, Mar. 06 (ANDINA).- Brazilian-backed proposal to build a 2,000-megawatt hydroelectric plant in the Peruvian Amazon has gained momentum in recent weeks as the government of the Andean nation has... More
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Inside Brazil: Land of opportunity (www.guardian.co.uk)
An overview of Brazil's key sectors shows the progress that has been made, but its infrastructure still needs work
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Rainforest pact: Brazil and the U.S. agree to cooperate (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
The United States and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to slash greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, one of the main drivers of global climate change. The... More
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Save the Planet with Meatless Monday (www.dailynexus.com)
As of Monday, March 1st, the UCSB residential dining commons will be showing official endorsement of the Meatless Monday campaign. The commitment by UCSB residential dining services to remove, for one... More
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Audio slide show: Brazil's Juma Reserve (www.baltimoresun.com)
The Amazon's 'museum of nature' is being preserved through a program that rewards those who participate in rain-forest preservation.
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Hydro dam construction rising worldwide (www.bclocalnews.com)
Following a slack period, construction of hydroelectric dams is undergoing a worldwide resurgence. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, hundreds of large dams are under construction or on the drawing... More
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Big business leaves big forest footprints (news.bbc.co.uk)
Consumers around the globe are not aware that they are "eating" rainforests, says Andrew Mitchell. In this week's Green Room, he explains how many every-day purchases are driving the destruction of... More
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