Bob - For One & All. TED. Sustainability. Sustainability. Fight for our future or allow big money to leave just the crumbs. Our Future Beacons. Global glacier retreat. The recession of mountain glaciers, has been used to provide qualitative support to the rise in global temperatures since the late 19th century [3].
Many glaciers are being lost to melting further raising concerns about future local water resources in these glacierized areas. Glaciers are the perfect summer water supply in alpine regions providing the highest runoff during warm dry periods when other water sources are at a minimum. Himalaya's receding glaciers suffer neglect / The Christian Science Monitor. By Janaki Kremmer, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor / January 3, 2007 Billions of people in China and the Indian subcontinent rely on South Asia's Himalayan glaciers – the world's largest store of fresh water outside the polar ice caps.
Scientists investigate Ecuador's receding glaciers. 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. There are too many uncertainties involved, the experts fear, and they are worried that many are losing their glacial cover at an alarming rate. A study to be published this year by Ecuadorean glaciologist Bolivar Caceres suggests that the country's glaciers lost more than 40% of their surface area between 1956 and 2006. For example, the Cotopaxi mountain with its famous volcanic cone has lost 40% of its glacial cap since 1976. 'Abnormally high temperatures'
Natural Threats to Rainforests. By Rhett Butler | Last updated July 27, 2012 Throughout their existence, tropical rainforests have been affected by natural forces like fire, drought, and storms.
These events occur on a random basis and can damage large stretches of rainforest. Amazon Rainforest Destruction. There are many 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. Activist. Please support our site by enabling javascript to view ads.
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. Activist nun shot dead in Amazon rainforest. 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. She had defied frequent threats to her life, and recently met the minister for human rights, Nilmario Miranda, to report that four peasants had received death threats from loggers and ranchers. 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.
Legislation currently being considered by the Brazilian government would reduce the protections in place against further destruction of the forest. These changes would greatly increase the amount of land that can be legally logged and may also provide retroactive amnesty for illegal logging. Earlier in July, Chief Almir traveled to the city of Brasilia with 11 other Surui leaders to meet with the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), the branch of the Ministry of Justice responsible for Indigenous affairs. So far, the local FUNAI office in Cacoal has not responded to their requests for help and protection. Rash of murders threatens to silence environmental and social activism in Brazil.
"The groups which grew out of land grabbing and clandestine exploitation of natural resources have much more power than the state does.
That’s why there is this shocking kind of violence," asserts Keck, a policy expert with Johns Hopkins University. Rural Brazil has suffered two periods of intense violence and assassination recently according to Professor Carlos Gonçalves of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In an interview with Ecodebate, Gonçalves says the first period lasted from 1985 to 1990 culminating in the assassination of Chico Mendes, but the second period, which began in 2003, is still ongoing and, considering recent murders, shows no sign of abating. Amazon rainforest activist shot dead. 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. According to a local newspaper, Diário do Pará, the couple had not had police protection despite getting frequent death threats because of their battle against illegal loggers and ranchers. Land barons seen behind Amazon activist killings.
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. The killing of the activists, who had denounced illegal logging, was the latest in a string of deadly attacks on environmentalists, murders allegedly linked to powerful corporate interests in the vast South American jungle. Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, 52, and his wife Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, 51, were shot dead in an ambush in late May close to their home in Nova Ipixuna, a small town of 15,000 people in the state of Para. Amazon Rainforest News: Amazon anti-logging activist shot dead.
15 Jun 2011Source: Aljazeera.net. Threats and Solutions. Background - May 13, 2009 Fifteen percent of the Amazon rainforest has already been destroyed. Between 2000 and 2007, the Brazilian Amazon was deforested at an average rate of over 19,000 km² per year, an area larger than Greece. A significant part of what remains is under direct threat - as are the forest plants, animals and people who depend upon the forest. Medicinal Plants of the Amazon Rainforest. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all.
Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species. 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. And if current deforestation rates continue, these critical habitats could disappear from the planet completely within the next hundred years. The reasons for plundering rain forests are mainly economic. Wealthy nations drive demand for tropical timber, and cash-strapped governments often grant logging concessions at a fraction of the land’s true value.
“Homesteader” policies also encourage citizens to clear-cut forests for farms. Threats. Future threats to the Amazon rainforest. Future threats to the Amazon rainforest Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com July 31, 2008. Amazon Facing New Threat: Agent Orange. By Claire Perlman – July 13, 2011. Amazon facing new threat: Agent Orange. Criminal Assault on the Planet! Monsanto's Agent Orange Being Used to Clear Amazon Forest. Agent Orange is one of the most devastating weapons of modern warfare, a chemical which killed or injured an estimated 400,000 people during the Vietnam War - and now it's being used against the Amazon rainforest. According to officials, ranchers in Brazil have begun spraying the highly toxic herbicide over patches of forest as a covert method to illegally clear foliage, more difficult to detect that chainsaws and tractors.
How cattle ranching is destroying the Amazon rainforest 60 Dams will end the Amazon as we know it. Dammed. Reporter: Allison Langdon Producers: Stephen Rice, Julia Timms, Jo Townsend There are few places on Earth quite as isolated or as spectacular as the Amazon. Venture deep into its heart and you enter a world completely untouched by the 21st century, where people live as they have done for thousands of years, surviving on the bounty of South America's mightiest river.
But their simple life is under threat. The Brazilian government has just approved construction of a huge hydro-electric dam. Fury as Amazon rainforest dam approved by Brazil - Times Online. Belo Monte Dam Threatens Brazilian Amazon (PHOTOS) From Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier: It is a bitter loss. The wild river that along its lengthy journey gives life to so much and so many will be tamed forever.
Amazon - Threats. Amazon Rainforest News: Brazil's rainforest faces new threats. May 29, 2011Source: GlobalPost Brazil’s environmental movement suffered two major setbacks last week when a gunman shot and killed a leading rainforest activist and the Congress passed a bill that environmentalists believe will trigger another wave of Amazon destruction. Amazon Rainforest News: Gold rush is growing threat to Suriname rainforest. Amazon Rainforest and Wildlife Under Threat - LiveVideo. 25 Million Hectares of Rainforest Threatened in DRC. Deforesting the Congolese Rainforests. Congo River Basin is Under Threat of Wars, Deforestation and Climate Change! Congo basin forests under threat. DEVELOPMENT-CONGO Deforestation Threatens South With Famine. How Does Deforestation Affect Orangutans?
Guardian Environment Network. WWF partnering with companies that destroy rainforests, threaten endangered species. Japan 'to continue' Antarctic whaling. Whaling in Japan is on the verge of collapse. U.S. Leads Bid to Phase Out Whale Hunting. Bycatch Fish and Animals Caught and Wasted. Longline fisheries continue to drive albatross decline : The Birds Nest. Fisheries Depletion - Going, Going... gone? 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 Reef. Bottom trawling Exposed—EU Bottom Trawling in the North Atlantic 底引き網漁 Seafloor carnage: the truth about bottom trawling
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