Mexico announces historic rain forest plan
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Mexico and a US environmental group agreed on a plan to protect 370,000 acres of tropical forest on the Yucatan Peninsula in what officials said Friday was the largest conservation project in the country&#39;s history.
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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.
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It&#39;s one of the few countries that  still has vast swathes of tropical rainforests left.
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NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru -- TomÃÂ¡s Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head. The rain forest spread lushly in all directions -- covering what oil maps call Block 1AB.
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Massive fires that ravaged Indonesia's vast tropical rain forests over the last decade are remaking one of the richest biological landscapes on the planet.
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Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos has chosen potential private partners for a US$2.7 billion (euro2.15 billion) project to boost its faltering petrochemicals business.
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By Anonymous  National forests will return to having environmental protections that were given to them during the Clinton Administration due to a court ruling in September. U.S.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 14 -- International negotiators continued to meet around the clock here today, making some headway in their effort to forge a road map for achieving a new global climate pact by the end of 2009, including agreement on a deal to protect the world's tropical forests.
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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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Mexico, jolted into contemplating its risk of a killer wave after the devastation in Asia, is studying setting up its own tsunami warning system, the government said on Tuesday.
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MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calder&#xF3;n of Mexico has dispatched a new, 5,000-strong, elite military unit to guard strategic sites, including oil refineries and hydroelectric dams, in the wake of guerrilla attacks on pipelines operated by the national oil and gas company, Pemex, according to news reports yesterday.
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Mexico&#39;s government said its plan to reduce inflation and foster economic growth by cutting electricity rates and import duties will cost 4 billion pesos ($353 million) in revenue next year.
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Mexico will play in the second round of the World Cup for the fourth straight time.
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Federal officials agreed Friday to a plan to build up levees to 18 feet high along the Rio Grande that would eliminate the need for a section of a U.S.-Mexico border fence that could have stranded dozens of homes.
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Sifting through the best that Mexico has to offer.
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Leaders of seven Central African countries signed a landmark treaty on Saturday to work together to help save the world's second largest rain forest.
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A scheme to offer nations an economic incentive to protect tropical forests is vital in the battle against climate change.