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14/5/2013
Deforestation in the
Amazon region could significantly reduce the amount of electricity produced from hydropower, says a new study.
Scientists say the
rainforest is critical in generating the streams and rivers that ultimately turn ...
13/5/2013
Deforestation may significantly decrease the hydroelectric potential of tropical
rainforest regions, warns a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The study, led by Claudia M. Stickler at the ...
23/4/2013
Home to giant catfish and stingrays, feeding over 60 million people, and with the largest abundance of freshwater fish in the world, the Mekong River, and its numerous tributaries, brings food, culture, and life to much of Southeast Asia. Despite ...
19/4/2013
What will be the effect of global warming on the
Amazon rainforest? Over the last 30 years, forest fires, most of them deliberately started to clear land by cattle ranchers and soy farmers, have destroyed thousands of square miles of forest. This ...
6/4/2013
While global warming is a topic of conversation and news coverage every day around the world,? ?the basic raw materials that drive the global economy are rarely discussed as being involved.? ?But these materials play a key role in global ...
27/2/2013
Most villages along the Baram River in Malaysia cannot count on round-the-clock electricity. Diesel generators hum at night near longhouses in the northwestern corner of the island of Borneo. Mobile and Internet coverage are almost ...
19/1/2013
NASA says climate change is devastating
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31/12/2012
2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical
rainforest-related news stories for 2012.
There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were ...
30/11/2012
Brazil's National Development Bank (BNDES) on Monday announced it has approved a $10.8 billion (22.5 billion Brazilian reais) loan to the consortium that is building the controversial Belo Monte
dam in the state of Par´ in the heart of the ...
13/11/2012
A top minister in the Malaysian state of Sarawak has told activists campaigning for cleaner energy to 'stop breathing', reports The Borneo Post.
“I would like to throw a challenge at them (critics) on two fronts," Land Development ...
7/9/2012
Though Brazil's
Amazon has been the focus of environmental groups for decades, the deforestation rate there has fallen dramatically in recent years as clear-cutting of
Amazonian jungle in eight other countries has started to rise.
As a ...
24/8/2012
Belo Monte
dam developer Norte Energia, S.A. has stopped all work on the Belo Monte
dam after receiving formal notification of the decision last week by the Brazilian Federal Appeals Court to suspend the project, reports International Rivers. ...
20/8/2012
The Sete Quedas or "seven waterfalls" on the Teles Pires River, which runs through the
Amazon rainforest states of Mato Grosso and Pará in central Brazil, are a spiritual oasis venerated by several indigenous groups.
But the ...
15/8/2012
A federal judge in Brazil has suspended construction work on a massive
dam in the heart of the
Amazon rainforest.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Judge Souza Prudente said that work could only resume on the $11bn, 11,000MW Belo Monte ...
15/8/2012
A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte
dam in the Brazilian
Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the
dam, the ruling is the latest in ...
15/8/2012
A Brazilian judge has ordered a suspension of the controversial Belo Monte
dam project, saying that local indigenous people who will be affected by the massive hydroelectric project were not sufficiently consulted during the environmental ...
4/8/2012
Ivo Lubrinna has been wildcatting for gold in the jungle here for more than 30 years. It's a notoriously messy business, as crews strip away topsoil in the forest and along riverbanks and use mercury and other pollutants to draw precious metal ...
26/7/2012
Three engineers are being held hostage by the Juruna and Arara indigenous tribes as tensions rise over the on-going construction of the Belo Monte
dam in Brazil, reports the Indigenous rights NGO
Amazon Watch. The company building the
dam, Norte ...
3/7/2012
As of Tuesday, the occupation of Belo Monte
dam by indigenous tribes entered its 13th day. Indigenous people, who have fought the planned Brazilian
dam for decades, argue that the massive hydroelectric project on the Xingu River will devastate ...
26/6/2012
The Brazilian government is putting its global environmental leadership at risk by ignoring scientific concern on large infrastructure projects and changes in the country's forest laws, warned an association of more than 1,200 tropical scientists ...
25/6/2012
Brazil's ambitious plans to build 30
dams in the
Amazon basin could trump the country's efforts to protect the world's largest
rainforest, said a leading
Amazon scientist speaking at the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and ...
19/6/2012
Nearly 1500 people formed a human banner on a beach in Rio de Janeiro today to protest plans to build dozens of
dams in the
Amazon basin, reports
Amazon Watch, an NGO campaigning against Brazil's controversial Belo Monte
dam.The image ...
19/6/2012
The
Amazon, home to 60 percent of the world's largest forest and 20 percent of the Earth's oxygen, remains threatened by the rapid development of Brazil. The area is populated by over 20 million people and challenged by deforestation, ...
19/6/2012
Brazil's biggest infrastructure project -- the $11 billion Belo Monte
dam -- is also its most controversial, and one showcased at the international summit on June 20-22 in Rio de Janeiro held 20 years after the Earth Summit.
Striking a ...
19/6/2012
For decades, conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy has repeatedly warned -- sometimes in dire terms -- about the loss of biodiversity. But Lovejoy, who this week was awarded the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, remains an optimist.
Thomas ...