Brazil Indians, Google to Fight Logging
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By ALAN CLENDENNING SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
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Industrial logging is damaging Central Africa's pristine forests and threatening an important ecosystem, the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts says.
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Fearful that growing pressure for development could cause the loss of vital plants and animals, biologists and conservationists are trying to rally new interest in protecting tropical forests and the keys they may hold for vital medicines.
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Yahoo revealed plans on Monday to be "carbon neutral" by year's end by backing hydropower in rural Brazil and wind power in India.
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India's Jammu and Kashmir state plans to fight a global ban on the trade in super-fine shahtoosh wool, which environmentalists say is produced by killing a rare Tibetan antelope.
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Rubber tappers,  fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined  environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion  hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main  tributaries.
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VIENNA, Sep 20 (IPS) - Instead of providing positive incentives to  tropical nations to conserve their rainforests and so reduce  greenhouse gases emissions, the world indirectly gives  "perverse incentives" to destroy them by demanding goods  produced by intensive logging, a leading environmental activist  says.
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Google's searching for a solution to our fuel woes.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazilian police searched  Amazon jungle on Sunday for suspected killers of a 74-year-old  American nun gunned down after defending peasant farmers in  conflicts with loggers and ranchers.
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BANGKOK: The global treaty regulating trade in threatened wildlife moved to protect ramin, the Asian hardwood whose forests and their inhabitants have been devastated by rampant commercial logging.
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Tim Hirsch reports on moves by Brazilian environmentalists to prevent the destruction of a forest threatened by a dam.
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Brazilian police seize a big load of illegally logged lumber as officials start new  moves to tackle Amazon deforestation.
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VILLAGERS campaigning to save the trees in thei
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazil's president often gets  criticized by his old leftist friends for being conservative at  home. But globally he has reshaped the debate on intellectual  property rights to reflect the needs of poor nations.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - A Brazilian judge has ordered the local office of Web search company Google  to disclose the data of users of Google's social networking site Orkut accused of crimes like racism or child pornography.
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Travel: Under siege from oil companies and loggers, the Huaorani of Ecuador are fighting back - through ecotourism.
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new protected status.