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mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Oct 15, 2008
Brazil will have high resolution imagery for 86 percent of its Amazon territory by the end of the year, according to Reuters. The images will help the country protect the Amazon rainforest and prosecute alleged …
Also tagged: law, environment, amazon, brazil, logging, forests, green, governance, latin america, south america, forestry, conservation, deforestation, illegal logging, environmental law, rainforests, satellite imagery, saving the amazon
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Oct 10, 2008
With just over thirty individuals left, every photograph of an Amur leopard in the wild is news. But recently released photos are the first to show an Amur leopard at a livestock kill, making them even more important …
Also tagged: animals, environment, cats, russia, wildlife, endangered species, biodiversity, carnivores, big cats, jeremy hance, happy upbeat environmental, great cats
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Sep 16, 2008
Arctic sea ice retreated to the second lowest level on record but remains about 9 percent above the low set last September, reports the NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
Also tagged: environment, oceans, earth science, sea ice, satellite imagery, impact of climate change, greenland arctic
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Sep 9, 2008
An image released by NASA shows that Arctic sea ice has retreated to the point where both the Northwest Passage around North America and the Northern Sea Route around Russia are open simultaneously. The occurrence …
Also tagged: environment, oceans, earth science, sea ice, satellite imagery, impact of climate change, greenland arctic
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Sep 3, 2008
Forest cover in the "Arc of Deforestation" of southern Amazonia will decline to around 20 percent 2016 due to continued logging and conversion of forests for cattle pasture and soy farms, report researchers writing in …
Also tagged: environment, agriculture, amazon, brazil, logging, forests, latin america, south america, forestry, conservation, soy, extinction, roads, deforestation, biodiversity, rainforests, satellite imagery, protected areas, rainforest agriculture, amazon soy, cattle ranching, threats to the amazon
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Sep 3, 2008
Forest cover in the "Arc of Deforestation" of southern Amazonia will decline to around 20 percent 2016 due to continued logging and conversion of forests for cattle pasture and soy farms, report researchers writing in …
Also tagged: environment, agriculture, amazon, brazil, logging, forests, latin america, south america, forestry, conservation, soy, extinction, roads, deforestation, biodiversity, rainforests, satellite imagery, protected areas, rainforest agriculture, amazon soy, cattle ranching, threats to the amazon
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Aug 31, 2008
Global sea level rise this century from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be two to three times greater than current estimates warn researchers writing in journal Nature Geoscience.
Also tagged: environment, amazon, brazil, logging, forests, latin america, south america, forestry, deforestation, sustainable development, environmental law, rainforests, satellite imagery, rainforest agriculture, rainforest destruction, amazon soy, cattle ranching, threats to the rainforest, threats to the amazon
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Aug 31, 2008
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased 69 percent in the past 12 months as high commodity prices have driven forest conversion for ranches and cropland, according to preliminary figures released by Brazil's …
Also tagged: environment, amazon, brazil, logging, forests, latin america, south america, forestry, deforestation, sustainable development, environmental law, rainforests, satellite imagery, rainforest agriculture, rainforest destruction, amazon soy, cattle ranching, threats to the rainforest, threats to the amazon
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Aug 26, 2008
The number of forest fires burning in Indonesia is increasing, raising concerns for the potential return of choking haze to the region.
Also tagged: pollution, environment, forests, indonesia, malaysia, forestry, palm oil, fires, haze, forest fires, rainforests, satellite imagery, peatlands, deforestaton
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Aug 26, 2008
Cattle, along with grazing deer, tend to align themselves with the Earth's magnetic field lines, in a north-south direction, report researchers writing in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the …
Also tagged: europe, environment, strange, mammals, animal behavior, satellite imagery, cattle grazing