How accurate is long-term climatology data from the Amazon?
Mongabay.com – USA
… but also indigenous communities that depend on the forest to survive. Are you seeing changes in the Amazon with regard to temperature and precipitation? …
Philippine Headline News – Manila,Philippines
The indigenous people harvest and sell papaya, the main source of income in GK Burog, for only P10 pesos per kilo (farm-gate price). …
The Amazon Jungle Comes Alive in the Concrete Jungle
CSRwire.com (press release) – USA
The exhibition calls attention to the COIAB – Coordination of the Indigenous at the Brazilian Amazon – the most representative association of indigenous …
Dissident Voice – Santa Rosa,CA,USA
[Also look at] the Amazon; people die because they don’t have the vaccination against malaria. Or take for instance health coverage in this country; …
People need to be more active in preserving rainforests
TCU Daily Skiff – Fort Worth,TX,USA
The video is about a man named Johan Eliasch who recently purchased 400000 acres of the Amazon rainforest. I must admit, the idea that one man could posses …
Navitas Naturals Launches Organic ‘Powerfood’ Powders
NPIcenter (press release) – Mississauga,Ontario,Canada
Mesquite Power (vegan, raw, organic, gluten-free): Mesquite is a traditional food of desert-dwelling indigenous Americans. The flour made from Mesquite seed …
The West Australian – Perth,Western Australia,Australia
Witnessing the plight of Australian Aborigines helped inspire Oscar-nominated US actor Casey Affleck to raise awareness of struggling indigenous cultures. …
UK woman dies in Guyana cliff fall
Guardian – UK
Miss McCarroll, from Beith, Ayrshire, had been in Guyana since last September to teach science to an indigenous community through Scottish non-profit …
Sri Lanka has enormous respect for trees
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
The aim of the charity is to protect endangered forest by highlighting the value of trees and encouraging the planting of indigenous species. …
Report Criticizes Governments Over Consumption of Coca Leaf
Drug Policy Alliance – Washington,DC,USA
Coca leaf is widely consumed in both countries, both as a part of daily life and in indigenous religious ceremonies. The leaves have a mild stimulant effect …
Common Dreams (press release) – Portland,ME,USA
Cargill has also drawn fire for its soy port in Santarém, in the Brazilian Amazon. The port’s opening in 2003 doubled deforestation rates in the surrounding …
