Brazilwood gets global protection
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The iconic tree that gave Brazil its name and the world's violinists their bows got extra protection Thursday to prevent it from sliding toward extinction.
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By Nzong Xiong, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 9--Many local nurseries are receiving their new bare-root fruit trees from now through the end of January.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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Developing nations Brazil and China reveal details of their greenhouse gas emissions and efforts to halt global warming.
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BRASILIA, Dec. 4 -- Brazil created the world's largest tropical rain forest preserve Monday in a section of the Amazon scarred by illegal logging and decades of violence between loggers, ranchers, conservationists and land rights activists.
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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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Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically last year
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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- The United States and Brazil, the two largest biofuel producers in the world, are discussing a new energy partnership that they hope will encourage ethanol use throughout Latin America and that US officials hope will diminish the regional influence of oil-rich Venezuela.
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The wood furniture maker uses a niche strategy to work around industry problems.
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Ewire -- A cooperative of eco luxury furniture makers in Vermont has teamed up with forest management experts at LaChonta of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to help save the Amazon rainforest through the manufacture and sales of high end outdoor eco furniture.
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A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection Monday in a region infamous for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers and environmentalists.
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Brazil says it will investigate claims that loggers are exploiting its policy of settling the poor in the Amazon.
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Helping Cool Earth 'keep carbon where it belongs' A new online initiative has come up with a cunningly simple plan to save the world's rainforests - offer them by the acre to concerned netizens whose "purchase" allows swathes of threatened land to be preserved for future generations.â¦
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Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern Amazon when he was 7. First they felled the mahogany. Then they returned to cut the cedars. By the time they came back for other hardwoods, there was little left of the forest.
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Science & environment: Space imaging gives the lie to Brazil's recent 'great achievement' of halting rainforest destruction
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While developing nations China, Brazil and India grow at break-neck pace with their burgeoning industry and farming, industrialized countries want them to clean up the dirty practices that have made them some of the world's biggest polluters.
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An ambitious drug-research project in Madagascar aims to tap the botanical knowledge of traditional healers while helping to protect the country's rain forests.