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WHY MARINA SILVA MATTERS  FOR THE FUTURE Collage by Carmen Chagas Luiza Mello Franco (a researcher and writer for the Council on Hemisp...

THE FUTURE AMAZON? Sigourney Weaver explains why the struggle over the Belo Monte dam is the struggle for all of Amazônia. SIGN THE PET...

A MESSAGE FROM PANDORA The Government of Brazil is forging ahead with plans to build the Belo Monte on the Xingu River in the central Ama...

THE BURNING SEASON PLUS DROUGHT The "fire devil" sweeping across a burning field in Araçatuba (São Paolo State) is emblematic...

A BIG VICTORY FOR A SMALL PEOPLE The Dongria Kondh tribe of 8,000 has prevailed in its struggle to prevent the $8 Billion Vedanta Corpor...

PLAN TO MINE SACRED MOUNTAIN NAILED Survival International hopes that the new report by India's government is the final nail in the...

HOMAGE TO THE STONE PEOPLE Check out the Flickr set "Canyons, Making Of" for the story of how this was done. Metron is absol...

US AND BRAZIL SWAP DEBT FOR NATURE Video shows the extraordinary diversity of nature and people in the cerrado region near Brasilia. There...

LESSIG LEVELS WITH OBAMA Lawrence Lessig Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Et...

BIOCHAR IS ON A ROLL With the report last week of biochar's potential for reducing nitrogen pollution and the just-released report ...

A BRAVE AND STARTLING TRUTH I love this one -- the latest gift from Joe Riley at Panhala. A Brave And Startling Truth We, this pe...

TSUNAMI FROM THE SKY Global warming is all about location. Here in Acre Brazil we are worried that the shifts in North Atlantic tropical ...

THE WORLD IS NOT FLAT The world is full of lumps. I've got to admit that I have been skeptical of Tom Friedman's thesis that ...

NO LAUGHING MATTER: BIOCHAR MAY OFFER A SOLUTION FOR A BIG PROBLEM THE NITROGEN PROBLEM: While greening farms worldwide, much nitrogen...

THE NEEDED POPULATION BOOM In Indonesia's West Java province, a new law to promote tree planting in this region of high deforestation...