Amazon Burning Makes Brazil a Leading Polluter
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Burning of the Amazon and  other forests accounts for three quarters of Brazil's  greenhouse gas emissions and has made the country one of the  world's leading polluters, a long-delayed government report  showed on Wednesday.
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By Staff Reports  Members of Brazils Kayapo tribe attend a ceremony Wednesday at the Federation of the Industries of the State of Sao Paulo, where they received the SmartWood certificate for management of 3.7 million acres of Amazon rain forest.  (c) 2006 Tulsa World.
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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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The burning and deforestation of Brazilâs vast Amazon rain forest causes nearly 3% of the worldâs greenhouse gas emissions, according to a government report released yesterday.
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We pledge allegiance to the penguin, and the intellectual property regime for which he stands. One nation, under Linux, with free music and open-source software for all. Welcome to Brazil! By Julian Dibbell from Wired magazine.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 12--LINFEN, China -- Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.   It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night.
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Visibility plunged to 50 metres in parts of Borneo island on Saturday and Singapore recorded its highest pollution reading in nearly a decade as fires in Indonesia sent acrid smoke across Southeast Asia.
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Life & style: We burn fossil fuel in the developed world - and plant trees in Africa. It sounds like a win-win situation. But is it? Mark Honigsbaum reports.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection yesterday in a region known for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers, and environmentalists.
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BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000  troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb death  squads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leader  and two workers in land battles in the last four days.
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Our South American neighbor expands its production of ethanol and biodiesel. Partnering with Brazil would benefit the economy of a democracy and clean our skies. In Autopia.
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Brazil should end the year at the top of the list of countries with the highest rate of pirated personal computers in its market, outranking China for the first time, according to a study released on Thursday.
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BRAZIL RIO DE JANEIRO -- A federal judge indicted two US pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers yesterday in Brazil's worst air disaster. A Boeing jet plunged into the Amazon rain forest in September after crashing in mid-air with an executive jet, killing 154. Pilots Joseph Lepore, 42, of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Jan Paladino, 34, of Westhampton Beach, ...
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Brazil's President Lula says rich nations are not doing enough to fight global warming.
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Brazil's sugar cane provides the ethanol that fuels eight out of every 10 new Brazilian cars. Bush wants an alliance with the planet's undisputed renewable energy leader. By the Associated Press.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil wants a seat at the top  table of world nations.
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In the Agua Boa, an upper tributary of the Amazon near the Venezuelan border in Brazil, fly fishing for peacock bass is a favorite pastime.