Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 10, 2009, 8:43 pm
He has lived alone in the jungle for decades, the lone survivor of an Amazon tribe massacred by Brazilian ranchers in their quest for land.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 9, 2009, 4:11 pm
Brazil took a step forward in protecting the Amazon rainforest on Wednesday, starting satellite surveillance of the cattle ranches that are among the chief culprits in the forest's destruction.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 9, 2009, 8:06 am
Researchers at Swansea University’s School of the Environment and Society say that deforestation and wood burning can lead to a lack of rainfall due to smoke in the atmosphere.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 9, 2009, 7:48 am
``We must add economic value to the forest,'' said Amazonas state Gov. Eduardo Braga, whose eco-subsidies, environmental endowment and plans to sell carbon credits to California have made the ...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 8, 2009, 4:03 pm
The Indians who live on the banks of the Xingu River on Monday threatened the Brazilian government with a “river of blood” if the construction of a large hydroelectric dam in Amazonia is not halte...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 8, 2009, 6:07 am
Nevertheless, the monitoring system, both Deter and Prodes, is crucial in Brazil's efforts to scale back deforestation.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 7, 2009, 8:40 pm

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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 7, 2009, 10:15 am
When people think about preserving the Amazon rainforest, captivating animals may come to mind such as the jaguar, toucan or manatee. But while wildlife must be safeguarded there are now other urgent ...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 6, 2009, 9:46 pm
The battle between preservation and development is red-hot in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rainforest.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 6, 2009, 6:56 am
Often lost in glossy picture books about the Amazon, is the fact that 21 million people in Brazil alone live in the Amazon territory. To be exact 20,998,731 according to the latest census.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 5, 2009, 7:40 am
The Amazonas state government will receive 20 million reais for a fund that pays rubber tappers and other forest dwellers a stipend to help protect and regenerate the forest.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 4, 2009, 10:01 pm
The Republic of Ecuador has sued the Chevron Corp. as the two battle over liability for pollution in the Amazon rainforest.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 4, 2009, 7:37 am
Funds generated under a U.S. cap-and-trade or a broader U.N.-supported scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation ("REDD") could play a critical role in bringing defo...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 3, 2009, 9:30 pm

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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 3, 2009, 4:44 pm
The auction when companies will bid for contracts to build Belo Monte has been delayed owing to problems in acquiring an environmental licence for the project. If the licence is not granted by January...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 3, 2009, 8:07 am
The same day the conference begins on Dec. 7, web users can start using a new green search engine called Ecosia. The new application, powered by Yahoo! and Microsoft’s Bing search engines, will allo...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 2, 2009, 9:08 pm
Some of the poorest people in the world reside in the regions in and around the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. To survive, they cut down the trees and sell them. Although there have been attempts to ‘...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 2, 2009, 3:01 pm
The Surui, with a proud history of resistance, fought them with bows and arrows but it was hopeless and, on September 7, 1969, they were forced to give up. It was a disaster. Within three years diseas...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 2, 2009, 10:24 am
The ugly side was the thick haze over the forest. This month is the dry part of the year, when people start to burn patches of the forest as the first step to clear cutting.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Dec 1, 2009, 10:01 am
Amazonas state is the largest and best preserved of the several states that made up what is referred to as "the Amazon." But scientific models show that if nothing is done, it too will suffer the...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 30, 2009, 5:07 pm

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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 30, 2009, 2:53 pm
In just six weeks the expedition recorded an astounding variety of life: 158 species of birds, 22 species of medium to large mammals, and half of Guyana's known endangered species.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 30, 2009, 9:50 am
In the Xingu region, indigenous communities are getting their war paint ready: they are furious about Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's decision to build a controversial hydroelectri...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 29, 2009, 5:03 am
Nicolas Sarkozy can find the time to come 5,100 miles from Paris to Manaus? But Peru’s president Alan Garcia – whose country has about 11 per cent of the total Amazon territory inside its borders ...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 28, 2009, 5:41 am
A few decades ago, Mato Grosso — "thick forest" in Portuguese — was covered by jungle. Today, it is an endless plain of soy farms and meatpacking plants that resembles the American Midwest.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 26, 2009, 10:04 pm
A summit intended to help save the Amazon rainforest has ended in Brazil without forging a common agenda on deforestation.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 26, 2009, 6:31 am
The state with the most devastation in October was Pará (45%), followed by Mato Grosso (22%) and Rondônia (13%). Together, the three represent 80% of total cleared forest. Then come Amazonas (9%), R...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 25, 2009, 9:00 am

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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 24, 2009, 3:46 pm
Resident Manoel da Silva paddles his canoe through dead fish in the Parana de Manaquiri River, a tributary of the Amazon, near the city of Manaquiri November 22, 2009. After a rainy season that c...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 23, 2009, 4:51 pm
Reforestation is expensive, difficult to plan, and even harder to execute. Success is subject to weather, pests, weeds, and continued maintenance.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 23, 2009, 4:39 pm
The Amazon is the largest remaining rainforest on Earth and plays a major role in regulating the planet's climate. But tens of thousands of square kilometres of Amazon rainforest are destroyed eac...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 23, 2009, 2:13 pm
Rock star Sting has used his latest visit to Brazil to urge the government there to listen to the concerns of indigenous peoples over a proposed new hydro-electric dam in the Amazon.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 23, 2009, 12:26 pm
Out of an estimated 80,000 species of flower-bearing plants in the Amazon, only about a fifth have been identified.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 20, 2009, 7:01 pm
The funds would aim "to protect biodiversity and support sustainable landscapes in fiscal year 2010 ... with a focus on protection of tropical forests," a U.S. Embassy London spokesman confirmed. A lo...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 20, 2009, 3:43 pm
Leaders from the eight countries straddling the Amazon -- Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela -- have all been invited to Thursday's talks in the Brazilian cit...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 19, 2009, 1:58 pm
Despite increased public awareness of the importance of tropical rainforests, deforestation rates are actually on the rise, mostly due to activities such as commercial logging, agriculture, cattle ran...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 19, 2009, 8:01 am

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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 18, 2009, 4:21 pm
Government leaders say the project is necessary to ensure that Brazil can meet growing demand for power, but activists say it would displace indigenous people living in the area and flood large parts ...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 17, 2009, 5:58 am
While temperature increase by itself may not wipe out forests, reduced rainfall will.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 16, 2009, 8:01 am
A group of scientists published an open letter to president Lula asking for the cancellation of the reconstruction of highway BR-319, which connects Porto Velho to Manaus. The main argument is that th...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 16, 2009, 5:57 am
As major sponges of carbon dioxide, the world's forests need to be protected and rehabilitated. Shrinkage of the Amazon rainforest is not just a Brazilian problem, it's a global problem - so i...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 15, 2009, 6:26 am

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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 14, 2009, 8:51 am
The Amazon jungle is metaphorically referred to as the lungs of the world: CO2 in, O2 out, transformed through a dense emerald mass. It's an irreplaceable treasure, in many spots still unmapped, a...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 14, 2009, 7:14 am
Brazil could earn up to $16 billion per year to fund emissions reductions and Amazon rainforest protection by selling forest carbon credits, a Brazilian carbon markets expert said in an interview.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 12, 2009, 7:17 pm
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday.
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 12, 2009, 4:38 pm
Brazil has been under pressure for years to slow the encroachment of loggers and ranchers who are blamed for much of the destruction of the forest, which has lost about 20 percent of its area since th...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 12, 2009, 10:27 am
Environmentalists say dams in the Amazon have flooded vast tracts of rainforest, releasing large volumes of greenhouse gases; blocked important routes for migratory fish; and promoted settlement proje...
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Eric Laczi posted an article on The Amazon Rainforest - Nov 11, 2009, 10:59 am
Flying in here by prop plane from Manaus, you can understand why the Amazon rainforest is considered one of the lungs of the world. Even from 20,000 feet, all you see in every direction is an unbroken...
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