Sentences with phrase «brazilian rainforest»

And lets be clear here — the Brazilian rainforest deforestation is declining through legislation.

The Brazilian President Luis Inacio «Lula» da Silva is set to sign into law a bill (Bill 458) that would formalize and legalize companies and individuals that are currently squatting on what amounts to Brazilian rainforest.

After decades of demonstrations and protests against the building of an enormous hydroelectric dam at Belo Monte in the lush Brazilian rainforest, the government has finally given approval to begin construction.

They have just been told that so rich and various are the trees of the great Brazilian rainforest that another three centuries may pass before they can all be identified.

So you keep talking about Al Gore, the scam, and sit back on your new deck built with Brazilian rainforest wood, and enjoy it while it lasts.

(05/17/2007) Ethanol production in the United States may be contributing to deforestation in the Brazilian rainforest said a leading expert on the Amazon.

My piece on Easter Island, the Brazilian rainforest, they're touchstones and it's worthwhile to see how they relate and connect to one another.

A kitchen of solid wood and stone cabinets with 18m2 of Rosa Brazilian Rainforest Granite slides as counter tops and wall covers.

It has rivers, waterfalls and a large Reserve of Atlantic Rainforest, considered the second largest Brazilian rainforest.

In a parallel to Shannon's encounter with the angelically blossoming tree, Darwin, exploring a Brazilian rainforest, has his own arboreal revelation: «Bristles of orchid leaves on every black branch / like green flames over Bibles.

Deep in the Brazilian Rainforest, a river barge makes its way up the Amazon.

These 3 flavors contain organic honey from the Brazilian rainforest.

The killers of Chico Mendes, the Brazilian rainforest activist murdered in December 1988, broke out of prison in Rio Branco last week in an escape which surprised no one.

More than half of the mineral - rich dust that feeds the Brazilian rainforest originates in a single valley in the African country of Chad.

While the crew chartered and plotted the harbor of Salvador in the Baía de Todos os Santos (the Bay of All Saints), Darwin wandered in astonishment through the Brazilian rainforest, caught in the «chaos of rapture,» completely bewitched by its wealth of vegetation.

NTK originally designed their Indy GT Family Tent to withstand conditions in the hot, humid Brazilian rainforest.

The Acai (pronounced ah - sigh - ee) palm tree grows naturally in the Brazilian rainforests, and is commonly along the banks of the Amazon River.

For plenty of years before that there was a general awareness of enormous environmental problems, at least among us old hippies of the past who were watching the Brazilian Rainforests burn and who had come out of a time that generated enormous amount of river pollution and super-fund sites in the USA.

Whether it's heat - trapping methane emissions on a Connecticut dairy farm or protecting Brazilian rainforests from slash and burn deforestation, we ensure our projects meet the highest global standards.

Not exact matches

The Rainforest Alliance Teams Up with GRAMMY ® Award - Winning Artists for Brazilian Music Film Experience

The project supports the Rainforest Alliance, which works in partnership with Brazilian nonprofit Imaflora — as well as farmers, forest communities and cattle ranchers — to protect Brazil's magnificent and ecologically fragile natural heritage.

Rainforest Alliance president Nigel Sizer joins CNN Money with Maggie Lake to discuss deforestation in Brazil and the Brazilian president's new bill to reduce deforestation controls in the Amazon.

We do not support clear cutting of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

Now the ingredients from Brazil's rainforests, used by Brazilian women for years, are available in amazing hair care products from nuNAAT at Walgreens!

In another article, published in late December in the journal PLOS ONE, Morato and collaborators go beyond the conclusions of their research on jaguars in the Atlantic Rainforest to begin building a portrait of the jaguar's movement patterns in all five major Brazilian biomes and the risks they face in each biome.

The destruction of the world's largest rainforest accelerated last year with a 29 percent spike in deforestation, according to the Brazilian government, confirming a reversal in gains seen since 2009

Thomas Lovejoy has spent decades studying ecology and biodiversity, including several years examining the fragmentation of the rainforest in Manaus in the Brazilian Amazon, where he recently returned (above).

«If Brazil maintains its rainforest, it's not just helping the [Brazilian] state of Amazonas,» Spracklen said.

Cattle ranching has been the primary driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, as huge swaths of rainforest are cleared to make way for agriculture.

He has complained to the Brazilian press about a 10 - year legal battle to do maintenance on a highway that connects Porto Velho to Manaus, running through the Amazon rainforest.

Emerging from dense rainforest along the Upper Envira River in the state of Acre, Brazil, the group willingly approached a team of Brazilian government scientists on 29 June and made peaceful contact with the outside world.

The new checklist spotlights three places for urgent actions: Indonesia's Java island, small islands between Indonesia and the Philippines, and the Brazilian state of Para, which contains the easternmost Amazonian rainforest.

The aerial photo shows forest fragments of the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest in Northeastern Brazil (Mata Atlântica), surrounded by sugar cane plantations.

A popular treatment in traditional Brazilian medicine, it's typically sourced from the bark of a tree native to the Amazon rainforest.

In addition to her own life style brand (her white dress shirts and everything that goes with them), Anne Fontaine also runs a foundation to preserve the Mata Atlântica and save the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest.

The two - door crossover offers high ground clearance for traversing the stumps of burned - out rainforests, and was designed at GM's Brazilian design center using Chevy's new international design...

You can haggle over colorful textiles at indigenous markets, share meals with traditional dwellers of the rainforest and follow the pounding rhythms of Afro - Brazilian drums corps.

We also have a pool, a deck and a bar, all within a real rainforest with several species of Brazilian plants and — if you're lucky — monkeys.

For example, for the New Museum's 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, he exhibited Phantom (2015), a virtual reality environment scanned from the Brazilian Mata Atlántica rainforest and accessed through a pair of Oculus.

Together with colleagues at MIT, the University of Michigan, the Instituto Nacional Presquisa Espaciais, Brazil, and the University of California, Irvine, Wang studied an area of rainforest in the Rondonia, Brazil using radiosonde data taken in 1994 as part of the Rondonian Boundary Layer Experiment (RBLE - 3) under the Anglo - Brazilian Amazonian Climate Observation Study (ABRACOS).

19 May 2008 In 2007, more than 50,000 fires raged through the Brazilian Amazon, reducing what were once lush rainforests to charred plains stretching to the horizon.

The new study, titled «Projections of climate change impacts on central America tropical rainforest» was published in March 2017 in the journal Climatic Change by a team of researchers of the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center of Costa Rica (CATIE).

Twenty - five years ago, Brazilian rubber tapper Chico Mendes was murdered for his efforts to protect the Amazon rainforest.

7 July 2009 If there's any place on the planet that needs to understand the relative advantages of earning money by destroying the rainforest and by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), it's the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, where soybean production has turned the state's capital, Cuiaba, into a boom town — and contributed to deforestation on a grand scale.

The cerrado is now disappearing more than twice as the rate as the neighboring Amazon rainforest, according to a Brazilian expert on the savanna ecosystem.

In 2000 Moore went to the Brazilian Amazon rainforests for the filming of a documentary by Marc Morano for American Investigator.

(07/31/2008) Between June 2000 and June 2008, more than 150,000 square kilometers of rainforest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon.

SÃO PAULO, 14 October, 2016 − Brazilian scientists, alarmed at the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest, have proposed a radical plan to save it.

As the current land area used for Brazilian sugar cane is approximately 8 — 9 million ha, and the land used for cattle pasture is 180 — 200 million ha, we don't have to worry about Brazilian biofuel development as a specific driver for removal of the Amazon rainforest.

The story is that the Brazilian government has been unable and possibly unwilling to stop rainforest being illegally cleared to make way for cattle.