Entries Categorized as 'Amazon Rain Forest'

Brazil Demonstrating That Reducing Tropical Deforestation Is Key Win-win Global Warming Solution

Date November 30, 2007

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Tropical deforestation is the source of nearly a fifth of annual, human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Recent studies by Woods Hole Research Center scientists demonstrate that during years of severe drought, tropical rainforest fires,  can double [...]

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Anti-oxidents from the rainforest

Date July 7, 2006

Anti-oxidents from the Rainforest
Needless to say, the Amazonian Rainforest is replete with herbs offering a wide variety of health benefits.  But beyond specific health benefits, like the ability of stevia to regulate blood pressure or sangre de drago to accelerate wound healing or chanca piedra to break kidney stones into a myriad of small stones, [...]

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Governor of Mato Grosso blamed for “rape of rainforest”

Date June 16, 2005

 
Maggi protests report blaming him for "rape of rainforest" - News - AE-Brazil.

Governor of Mato Grosso and "Soy King" Blairo Maggi (Popular Socialist Party - PPS) refuted a report in the Friday edition of British daily "The Independent" calling him the man behind "the rape of the rainforest".
"I think the accusation is shocking, an exaggeration [...]

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