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Tropical deforestation affects rainfall in North America

Goddard Space Flight Center 20 Sep 2005

Coca cultivation and eradication destroy rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 15 Sep 2005

NASA Satellite Data Used to Assess Amazon Deforestation

Goddard Space Flight Center 15 Sep 2005

Ancient 46-foot long crocodile found in Amazon

Rhett A. Butler 3 Sep 2005

Amazon deforestation lower than last year says Brazil

Rhett A. Butler 27 Aug 2005

Chevron faces Billion-Dollar Liability for damage in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2005

Brazil to crackdown on illegal logging says Environment Minister

Rhett A. Butler 9 Aug 2005

Landowner caught burning 2 million trees in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 3 Aug 2005

Brazil’s grasslands could replace food production of American heartland

Tina Butler 1 Aug 2005

Amazon not holding expected carbon, carbon-credit trading scheme at risk?

Rice University 28 Jul 2005

Scientists to set fire to Amazon rainforest to study its resilience

Woods Hole Research Center 19 Jul 2005

Rainforest plant helps treat psoriasis

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2005

Saving the Amazonian Rainforest Through Agricultural Certification

Tina Butler 3 Jun 2005

Prize recognizes largest contributor to Amazon rainforest destruction

Mongabay.com 27 May 2005

Paving of road brings change in the Amazon rainforest

The Associated Press 27 May 2005

Second “uncontacted” tribe in Amazon rain forest threatened by loggers

Reuters 27 May 2005

Green party quits government to protest Amazon deforestation

Rhett A. Butler 24 May 2005

Rainforest loss in the Amazon tops 200,000 square miles, new figures from Brazilian government

Mongabay.com 20 May 2005

Farming the world’s largest fish – an alternative to deforestation

Mongabay.com 19 May 2005

Vampire Fish discovered in the Amazon

Tina Butler 19 May 2005

How did rainforest shamans gain their boundless knowledge on medicinal plants?

Rhett A. Butler 14 May 2005

Amazon rain forest continues to fall; 200,000 square miles gone since 1978

Rhett A. Butler 24 Apr 2005

Drought, fire called biggest threats to Amazon rainforest ecosystem

Rhett A. Butler 23 Apr 2005

Farmers and landless poor battle over the Amazon

Reuters 22 Apr 2005

Chinese economy drives road-building and deforestation in the Amazon

Tina Butler 17 Apr 2005

Smoke from forest fires reduces rainfall and spells trouble for the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 14 Apr 2005

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