Gold rush tears up a patch of the Amazon
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It's a gold rush in the Amazon jungle, driven by the Internet.
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A massive gold producer makes money off of oil, copper, and a global distrust of the dollar.
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Gold surged to a historic high above $910 an ounce, as investors rushed in to buy the metal on further weakness in the dollar and expectations of a sharp cut in U.S. interest rates, analysts said.
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The Amazon jungle is a daunting place to live, but it's a lot easier to get broadband now.
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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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Life is bleak for the gold miners and their families working more than 5km up in the Peruvian Andes.
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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.
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Burning of the Amazon and other forests accounts for three quarters of Brazil&#39;s greenhouse gas emissions and has made the country one of the world&#39;s leading polluters
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Rescuers find several people  after a plane crashes in the Peruvian Amazon with up to 20 people on board.
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BRASILIA, Brazil - Nearly 9,000 square miles of the Amazon have been destroyed this year, the government said on Wednesday, while an environmental group blamed work on a new highway as the chief reason.
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THE death of Indiaâs forest-dwelling Bandit King has sparked a sudden gold rush in the dense forests of southern India as hundreds of villagers descended on the former no-go zone to search for the outlawâs hidden riches.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Grieving relatives of 155 people killed in Brazil's worst aviation disaster arrived in the Amazon on Monday to fly over the wreckage as searchers tried to recover corpses in the dense jungle.
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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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She said the system had paved the way for poachers, illegal loggers, charcoal burners and even drug barons. &quot;Large tracts of forestland have been converted into farmlands, thereby destroying local biodiversity
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The Amazon is the home of writers who, despite the vast canvas before them and their own considerable talent, have had problems making their voices heard beyond the jungle.
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Gold swept to a record high on Wednesday  driven by surging oil, a weaker dollar and simmering  geopolitical tension, also ushering platinum to a record peak.
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By Andrew Hay URUCU, Brazil  - A tower of orange flame risesabove the Amazon jungle, firing the energy goals of theBrazilian government.