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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.
Himalaya's receding glaciers suffer neglect / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
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.
BBC News - Scientists investigate Ecuador's receding glaciers
Throughout their existence, tropical rainforests have been affected by natural forces like fire, drought, and storms.
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
A peasant activist was murdered in Para state, in Brazil's Amazon, in the latest of a spate of apparent hired killings which some have linked to land conflicts. Obede Loyla Souza was shot dead outside his home in the settlement of Esperanca on Saturday. Campaign group the Pastoral Land Commission (Comissão Pastoral da Terra - CPT) reported that the victim had been involved in a dispute with representatives of timber companies which were illegally cutting trees in the area.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 | The Guardian
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 .Authorities in Brazil have sent an elite police force consisting of 60 officers to offer protection to environmental activists in the Amazon after a series of killings, reports the Associated Press.
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 | The Guardian
They watched as the Amazon rain forest fell around them. Instead of staying quiet, as so many people in the lawless region do, environmentalist leader Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria, fought back. They reported illegal loggers to police and federal prosecutors.
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 A landless peasant activist has been found dead in Brazil's Amazon state of Para, the fifth murder in a month believed to be linked to the conflict over land and logging in the country’s rainforest region.Background - May 13, 2009 Fifteen percent of the Amazon rainforest has already been destroyed.
Threats and Solutions | Greenpeace International
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 - National Geographic
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