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Reducing tropical deforestation will help fight global warming

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 May 2007

Amazon rainforest locks up 11 years of CO2 emissions

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 May 2007

Better forest policies would reduce illegal logging in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 May 2007

Climate change could dramatically change forests in Central America

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 May 2007

Commercial hunting is a major threat to tropical rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2007

Brazil splits environmental agency to fast-track development projects

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Apr 2007

Soybeans may worsen drought in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Apr 2007

Brazil to give Amazonian tribes Internet access to fight deforestation

Mongabay.com 30 Mar 2007

Cargill busted in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2007

Amazon rainforest fires date back thousands of years

Rhett A. Butler 14 Mar 2007

Can new loan really bring sustainable cattle ranching to the Amazon?

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2007

Pre-Colombian Amazon rainforest not heavily populated

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2007

Gold mining in Guyana damages environment, threatens Amerindians

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2007

Global warming could trigger 8-degree temperature rise in Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2007

Indigenous populations deforested New World rainforests before European contact

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Feb 2007

Brazil to allow large-scale monitored harvesting of the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2007

Biofuels, logging may spur deforestation in Guyana

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2007

Amazon deforestation damaging critical ecosystem services

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Feb 2007

Brazil calls out rich countries on global warming

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2007

Just how bad is the biodiversity extinction crisis?

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2007

Gold Rush Tears Up a Patch of the Amazon

The Associated Press 2 Feb 2007

New maps reveal causes of Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 26 Jan 2007

Europe’s largest tropical rainforest invaded by gold miners

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2006

Time is running out for French Guiana’s rainforests

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2006

Fragmentation killing species in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 27 Nov 2006

Mining in Venezuelan Amazon threatens biodiversity, indigenous people

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Nov 2006

Indians are key to rainforest conservation efforts says renowned ethnobotanist

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2006

Amazon deforestation rate plunges 41 percent

Mongabay.com 27 Oct 2006

Brazil claims soy and beef not responsible for Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2006

Global warming could cause catastrophic die-off of Amazon rainforest by 2080

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Oct 2006

Brazil says no to rainforest privatization plan, asks Gore for help

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2006

Rainforests face myriad of threats says leading Amazon scholar

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2006

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