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The recession of mountain glaciers, has been used to provide qualitative support to the rise in global temperatures since the late 19th century [3] . Global glacier retreat

By Janaki Kremmer, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor / January 3, 2007 Himalaya's receding glaciers suffer neglect / The Christian Science Monitor

Studies suggest Ecuador's glaciers are rapidly shrinking Ever since the German explorer Alexander Von Humboldt visited Ecuador in 1802, foreign visitors have been drawn to its majestic volcanoes with delightful-sounding names like Cotopaxi, Chimborazo and Cayambe. Scientists studying them are reluctant to predict how many more decades visitors have left to see the glaciers which crown the volcanoes. Scientists investigate Ecuador's receding glaciers

Diminishing Water Supplies « Asia Water Project China

By Rhett Butler | Last updated July 27, 2012 Natural Threats to Rainforests

There are many threats reasons the Amazon rainforest is being destroyed, but if you take a closer look all of them share the same principle, profit. For someone that is exploiting the forest and destroying it in the process there is nothing that will change their minds unless they find a more profitable business. Although this is a sad statement it is true and well known. Amazon Rainforest Destruction

Activist Murder Adds to Death Toll in Brazil Amazon

Brazil | Amazon | Activist An anti-logging activist has been killed in Brazil's Amazon region, bringing the number of such deaths to five in the past month. The body of Obede Loyla Souza , 31, was found last weekend in the forest surrounding his home in the northern state of Para, BBC reports. The young activist and landless peasant had argued with illegal loggers in the area.

Cabinet ministers and police officers arrived in the eastern Amazon region of Brazil yesterday to investigate the fatal shooting of a missionary nun compared to the 1988 murder of the rainforest activist Chico Mendes. Dorothy Stang, 74, a sister in the Order of Notre Dame de Namur and defender of the rainforest and local people persecuted by illegal loggers and landowners, was shot three times on Saturday near Anapu, a rural town about 1,300 miles north of Sao Paulo. Activist nun shot dead in Amazon rainforest | World news

Chico Mendes « Children of the Amazon In Brazil this past month, there has been a dramatic escalation of the threats against Chief Almir and other leaders who stand with him in opposing new changes to The Forest Code .

Commentary by Karimeh Moukaddem , mongabay.com June 10, 2011 Rash of murders threatens to silence environmental and social activism in Brazil

José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva had predicted his own murder six months before he was killed and received frequent death threats. Six months after predicting his own murder, a leading rainforest defender has reportedly been gunned down in the Brazilian Amazon. José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo, are said to have been killed in an ambush near their home in Nova Ipixuna, in Pará state, about 37 miles from Marabá. Amazon rainforest activist shot dead | Environment

Amazon forest: activists killed to silence them | Rights monitoring

Nearly a month after the murder in Brazil's Amazon of an activist couple believed to have been threatened by land and logging barons, the investigation has gone nowhere. Land barons seen behind Amazon activist killings

Amazon Rainforest News: Amazon anti-logging activist shot dead 15 Jun 2011 Source: Aljazeera.net

Background - May 13, 2009 Fifteen percent of the Amazon rainforest has already been destroyed. Threats and Solutions

Medicinal Plants of the Amazon Rainforest

More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land. Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now cover only about 6 percent. Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species

Future threats to the Amazon rainforest Future threats to the Amazon rainforest Rhett A.

Amazon Facing New Threat: Agent Orange | The EnvironmentaList

Amazon facing new threat: Agent Orange | Environment

Criminal Assault on the Planet! Monsanto's Agent Orange Being Used to Clear Amazon Forest

‪How cattle ranching is destroying the Amazon rainforest‬‏

60 Dams will end the Amazon as we know it.

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Fury as Amazon rainforest dam approved by Brazil - Times Online

Belo Monte Dam Threatens Brazilian Amazon (PHOTOS)

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Amazon Rainforest News: Brazil's rainforest faces new threats

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Amazon Rainforest and Wildlife Under Threat - LiveVideo

25 Million Hectares of Rainforest Threatened in DRC | Greenpeace Africa

Congo River Basin is Under Threat of Wars, Deforestation and Climate Change!

Africa | Congo basin forests under threat

DEVELOPMENT-CONGO Deforestation Threatens South With Famine

Green Post: Deforestation and violence in the Congo

Indonesian Deforestation Threatens Endangered Orangutans | EarthTrends

How Does Deforestation Affect Orangutans?

Guardian Environment Network | Environment

WWF partnering with companies that destroy rainforests, threaten endangered species

Japan 'to continue' Antarctic whaling

Whaling in Japan is on the verge of collapse | Junichi Sato | Environment

US threatens Iceland with sanctions over whaling

U.S. Leads Bid to Phase Out Whale Hunting

Bycatch

WWF - Bycatch - What is the problem?

Bycatch Fish and Animals Caught and Wasted | Global Chefs

Longline fisheries continue to drive albatross decline : The Birds Nest

Fisheries Depletion - Going, Going... gone?

Threats to Our Ocean Fisheries - Overfishing, Bycatch and Marine Habitat Loss - by the National Coalition for Marine Conservation

Trashed: Across the Pacific Ocean, Plastics, Plastics, Everywhere CHARLES MOORE / Natural History v.112, n.9, Nov03

Coral Grief: Warming Climate Threatens Reef Destruction

Coral Reefs

‪coral reef destruction‬‏

‪Fish Bombing - Coral Reefs - Indonesia‬‏

‪Destructive Trawling: Reefs to Rubble‬‏

‪Bottom trawling‬‏

‪Exposed—EU Bottom Trawling in the North Atlantic 底引き網漁‬‏

‪Seafloor carnage: the truth about bottom trawling‬‏

‪Deep Trawl Underwater Camera‬‏

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