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Indonesian palm oil firms pledge to stop clearing rainforests

Mongabay.com 13 May 2008

China to push for overseas acquisition of farmland to improve food security

Mongabay.com 13 May 2008

46% of Brazil’s energy comes from renewable sources

Mongabay.com 13 May 2008

Sustainability conference reveals a rift in the Malaysian Palm Oil Council

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2008

High palm oil prices kill the biodiesel market for Asia

Mongabay.com 1 May 2008

Unilever calls for ban on rainforest destruction for palm oil

Mongabay.com 1 May 2008

Judge suspends Amazon dam project due to legal questions

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2008

Could felling and burying trees help fight global warming?

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2008

China’s wood industry fueled by illegal log imports from rainforest countries

Mongabay.com 29 Feb 2008

Steel production drives deforestation in Brazil’s Pantanal

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2008

Staples dumps Asia Pulp & Paper over its destruction of virgin rainforests

Rhett A. Butler 7 Feb 2008

How much would it cost to end Amazon deforestation?

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2008

7000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed in late 2007 says Greenpeace

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2008

Amazon deforestation jumps in the second half of 2007

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2008

DR Congo has great potential for biofuels says U.N. official

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2008

70% of rainforest island to be cleared for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 13 Dec 2007

U.S. corn subsidies drive Amazon destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Dec 2007

Rainforest destruction continues in tropical Asia

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2007

Kyoto pact ignores CO2 emissions from biofuels

Rhett A. Butler 5 Dec 2007

Could the carbon market save the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2007

Cooking oil, palm oil biodiesel can reduce emissions relative to diesel

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2007

UN says palm oil destroys forests, indigenous cultures in Indonesia, Malaysia

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2007

Proposed gold mine proves controversial in French Guiana rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Nov 2007

Carbon-negative bioenergy to cut global warming could drive deforestation

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2007

WSJ inquiry pushes FSC to cancel logging certification in endangered forest

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2007

Global warming puts primates at greater risk

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2007

2007 Amazon fires among worst ever

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2007

Brazil to search for oil in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2007

Congo pygmies to meet World Bank President Zoellick over forest destruction

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2007

Amazon rainforest burning “worst” in memory

October 16 16 Oct 2007

South American development plan could destroy the Amazon

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2007

Fires rage in Amazon rainforest park

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Oct 2007

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