We drive 45 minutes out to El Yunque rain forest.
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Climbed many a steps in that rain forest -- not well.
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You could do worse than start with the rain forest.
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Alter wasn't always viewed as a rain forest beach town.
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It's deep in the rain forest, and difficult to access.
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A cloud forest is, in essence, a rain forest at altitude.
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Ms. Salazar-López is a defender of the Amazon rain forest.
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Fires in the Amazon rain forest are spreading at record speed.
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Fires in the Amazon rain forest are spreading at record speed.
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The Los Suenos Marriott Ocean & Golf Resort in Costa Rica, on 1,100 acres of rain forest, replicates a lush rain forest feeling through an entryway featuring indigenous plants and flowers (rooms from approximately $340 a night).
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It was hot and wet as always in the Winnipeg Rain Forest.
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Check out our interview with Rain Forest and the Grindmother herself below!
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The foliage is even more varied than the most dense rain forest.
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He didn't scream at President Trump or even save a rain forest.
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Chinese logging is also threatening to wipe out the country's rain forest.
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Trilobites Deep in the Amazon, the rain forest once covered ancient secrets.
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His inventory of sounds was more like a rain forest than a library.
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Now, only about 1,000 Orang Rimba families still live in the rain forest.
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Get lost in a temperate rain forest via this short virtual reality documentary.
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No tub but a spacious forest-green tiled shower with rain forest showerhead.
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No one knew that better than his enemies in Brazil's Amazon rain forest.
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Or you can glamp at the company's rain forest camp on nearby Montserrat.
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Op-Ed Columnist Hearts melt seeing the wildlife in the Dzanga Sangha rain forest.
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Illegal logging and mining in the Amazon rain forest cause drastic levels of deforestation.
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"Imagine you were dropped in the middle of a rain forest," said Dr. Damerius.
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The huge, walk-in shower had a rain-forest showerhead with strong water pressure.
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Leafcutter ants pour over the rain forest like an armada of green-masted ships.
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"The rain forest is the reason our people are returning to the plants," she said.
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Abby Tang: It feels like my back is in, like, a beautiful Amazonian rain forest.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opposes the project, citing the proposed routing through a rain forest.
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It may have been the rain-forest-like play of sunlight and shadow around him.
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The future of the rain forest depends on an economy that revolves around its conservation.
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Steep, verdant hills once covered in rain forest were denuded and exposed to the elements.
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Oh, for comparison, the Amazon rain forest has an area of 2.1 million square miles.
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The Amazon rain forest – the lungs which produces 20% of our planet's oxygen – is on fire.
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"Improving the efficiency of buildings is not as sexy as saving a rain forest," Bloomberg concedes.
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Our doctors' stethoscopes are helping heal this amazing rain forest, an important lung of the earth.
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For sporty types, Vancouver has its own temperate rain forest within city limits in Stanley Park.
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The Amazon rain forest - the lungs which produces 20% of our planet's oxygen - is on fire.
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Parts of the Amazon rain forest contain ponds of dirty water left over from hydraulic mining.
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Farmers illegally clear patches of the rain forest to grow more crops and graze more livestock.
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Some showed a deep knowledge and love of the rain forest they were trying to protect.
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The Amazon rain forest - the lungs which produces 220% of our planet's oxygen - is on fire.
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But in a rain forest in Borneo, scientists have discovered a case of unusual paternal devotion.
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Dr. Goyes Vallejos spent months searching the rain forest nearly every night for the camouflaged frogs.
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The remains of an Indonesian rain forest that was cleared to make way for oil palms.
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Before they were invented it was impossible to explore large sections of rain forest in detail.
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The rain forest providing protective cover for the city below has been denuded by the buildings.
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Trilobites Scientists studying the Amazon rain forest are tangled in a debate of nature versus nurture.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has long opposed the project, citing the proposed routing through a rain forest.
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LIDAR will open up the rain forest like a book, which we can then read with ease.
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In the acidic rain forest soils, no organic remains survive — not even the bones of the dead.
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That was before Hurricane Maria obliterated the only tropical rain forest in the United States forest system.
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All that remained inside the stone stables was rain forest overgrowth in shades of green and purple.
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And how do you get samples of these spiders when you're in the rain forest in Madagascar?
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In the 1980s, an ecologist named Thomas Lovejoy conducted an unusual experiment in Brazil's Amazon rain forest.
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The asphalt gave way to a dirt road through a rain forest, its canopy wreathed in brume.
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They built Kapawi Ecolodge to protect part of the rain forest and share their culture with visitors.
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Disrupt one part — raise the temperature, plant crops in a rain forest — and you disrupt them all.
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Newt, a Hoffman's two-toed sloth, was born on Wednesday morning at the Topeka Zoo's Tropical Rain Forest.
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Corpse flowers originated in the Sumatran rain forest and are some of the largest flowers on the planet.
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And not just a few bacteria, but immense communities as dense, diverse and entangled as a rain forest.
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Brazil has faced increasing international scrutiny over the record number of fires sweeping through the Amazon rain forest.
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Brazil's environment minister, Ricardo Salles, told the Financial Times that the solution was to "monetize" the rain forest.
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Mr. LaChapelle created scale models using common, found objects, which he photographed in the rain forest of Maui.
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Think you need to travel to the African savanna or South American rain forest to see fantastic wildlife?
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Op-Docs The Hoh Rain Forest is one of the largest temperate rain forests in the United States.
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Which is also what Trump will be called when his climate policies turn Ohio into a rain forest.
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Approximately three-fourths of the country is covered by dense equatorial rain forest, with plentiful flora and fauna.
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The indigenous peoples of the Amazon rain forest are the shock troops in the struggle against climate change.
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The Amazon rain forest absorbs immense quantities of carbon dioxide and helps slow the pace of global warming.
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The Amazon rain forest -- the lungs of our planet which produces 22018% of our oxygen -- is on fire.
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The Amazon rain forest -- the lungs of our planet which produces 20% of our oxygen -- is on fire.
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Funding for critical law enforcement to protect the rain forest from illegal timber cutting has also been decimated.
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"Kinetic Spinner Forest" is a veritable rain forest of 225,19173 eye-dazzling spinners suspended from 21917,22005 thin cables.
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In fact, that's how cacao grows in natural rain forest, shaded by a leafy canopy of tropical trees.
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Human-animal encounters are common in Indonesia, a tropical archipelago that contains Asia's largest swath of rain forest.
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Now travelers can navigate the Lemosho Route's rain forest and arctic terrain with REI Adventures' "Signature Camping" experience.
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My ADA-compliant room, number 228, had a generous walk-in shower and a rain-forest shower head.
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Nobre warned that it is not far off with already 15-17% of the rain forest having been destroyed.
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"I'm afraid of heights and this doesn't look too comfortable," Kardashian says of the resort in the rain forest.
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They also opposed an early reservoir plan that would have flooded thousands of square kilometers of virgin rain forest.
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Scientists believe that the few remaining hunter-gatherers living in Central Africa's vast rain forest were its original inhabitants.
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That's what botanists studying the trees of the Amazon rain forest have been attempting for more than 300 years.
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Out west, the Andes would still trigger enough rainfall to keep a remnant of the Amazon rain forest alive.
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Such encroachment and destruction of the rain forest, often accompanied by violence against the indigenous peoples, threaten their survival.
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Estimates show that nearly 20% of the oxygen produced by the Earth's land comes from the Amazon rain forest.
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During London Fashion Week, Burberry introduced its idea of evolution, going carbon neutral to help the Amazon rain forest.
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Hearts and minds can be as opaque as a rain forest; only small pieces of them are ever visible.
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Only 300 of these primates are believed to exist in this small region of rain forest shared with Cameroon.
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At the request of Peru, the US, and Interpol, Mexican officials seized roughly 8 million pounds of rain forest timber.
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Bria is a two-hour flight from the capital, Bangui, over an endless canopy of rain forest and snaking rivers.
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The effigy was recovered from a church attacked by the FARC in 2002 in the rain forest village of Bojaya.
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All the performances are interactive, and the afternoon will end with the audience members' participation in a rain forest mural.
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And if the teaser is anything to go by, the collection may include a lot of futuristic rain forest prints.
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He chose a soybean tycoon who has deforested large tracts of the Amazon rain forest to be his agriculture minister.
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In real life, there's no such thing as a walking palm; it's a myth used to entertain rain-forest tourists.
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Mr. LaChapelle created scale models using common, found objects, which he photographed on location in the rain forest of Maui.
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As warming crosses specific temperature thresholds, scientists expect ice sheets to melt and the Amazon rain forest to die off.
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Help buy land in the rain forest so that we can protect it even when the Brazilain government will not.
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Brazil saw 50 activist murders in 2015, mostly tied to agricultural encroachment and illegal logging in the Amazon rain forest.
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After 10 days of rain forest hikes and lazy sunsets on the beach, Ms. Forest was covered with insect bites.
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And the Hall of Biodiversity, which includes a model of an African rain forest, illustrates how climate change affects ecosystems.
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The Saudi desert, sere and brown, was about as different from the verdant rain forest as Mr. Tarip could imagine.
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And we visited Puerto Rico's storm-ravaged El Yunque, above, the only tropical rain forest in the U.S. forest system.
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"We need a proper indigenous economy that is based on a sustainable use of the rain forest," Mr. Vásquez said.
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For the rain forest to survive, the country needs an economy that revolves around its conservation instead of its destruction.
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That represented the highest loss of forest cover in the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rain forest, in a decade.
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And as on the floor of a rain forest, new life must push through the old and fight for resources.
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There is little doubt that huge areas of rain forest are being leveled to make way for palm oil plantations.
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In the Hoh Rain Forest in Washington State, a poet searches for the rare peace that true silence can offer.
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Researchers studied two communities in a remote area of the Venezuelan rain forest that can only be reached by air.
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But neither Max nor the couple who joined us felt much like kayaking through a rain forest full of mosquitoes.
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Environmentalists warn that in another 2185 years or so, little of the rain forest may be left to be saved.
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Looking over the rain forest from above, predictable linear patterns of another Yaguas jewel emerge: peat bogs, only recently discovered.
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It's also used by archeologists to detect topography, like where ancient Mayan ruins might lie beneath a dense tropical rain forest.
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Known for its dense rain forest and wildlife, Sarawak is set apart from Malaysia's other 12 states by its semiautonomous status.
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EXTINCTION REBELLION SAYS PROTEST AT BLACKROCK OFFICES IN LONDON DUE TO "DESTRUCTION AND CHAOS" ITS INVESTMENTS WREAK IN AMAZON RAIN FOREST
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That is, underlying the long-term destruction of the Amazon rain forest for decades has been global demand for meat products.
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This virtual reality Op-Doc takes you to a remote rain forest for a new perspective on the power of silence.
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But showing travelers the wilder side of the unpredictable rain forest while keeping everyone relatively comfortable is a tricky balancing act.
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Trilobites Three related species of manakins occupy adjacent parcels of the Amazon rain forest: Opal-crowned, snow-capped and golden-crowned.
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A densely populated and extensively farmed land is transformed into the aural equivalent of a remote rain forest by singing amphibians.
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Young museum visitors do the same and explore his shadowy rain forest lair with battery-powered candles at this interactive show.
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Many of the extraction projects are in areas, like the Amazon rain forest, that must be preserved for combating climate change.
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The animals are only on Sumatra, where their rain forest habitat is quickly being replaced by rubber and palm oil plantations.
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The company had been selling Amazon rain forest timber into the US market for at least eight years, in steadily increasing quantities.
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In the tropical lowland rain forest — the jungle — you might get stuck in deep mud and perhaps need help to get out.
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The RHONJ star also took in the luscious green landscape of Puerto Rico by adventuring through the rain forest via zip-lining!
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Caravans of pochtecas , or feather traders, moved through the rain forest as far south as Colombia, exacting feathered tribute from weaker tribes.
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I was planning to spend a day in the Hoh Rain Forest, one of the only rain forests in the United States.
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Residents on the island of Dominica say the verdant rain forest trees there have been completely stripped, leaving a desolate brown wasteland.
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The rare species will begin its scientific life listed as critically endangered because the island is losing rain forest habitat to logging.
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Place 39 In this dual-island nation off the west coast of Africa, lush rain forest, volcanic peaks and a complex history.
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" As Mr. Harris himself put it in a 1992 interview with Project Muse: "The rain forest made an enormous impact on me.
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Imagine bringing cartoon characters to life, turning yourself into a rain forest tree or entering the world of a story you're reading.
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Improving productivity across the board could help satisfy rising meat demand while lessening the need to clear broad swaths of rain forest.
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In Indonesia, the replacement of rain forest with palm oil plantations has ravaged the habitat of critically endangered orangutans and Sumatran tigers.
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They use only bark and branches salvaged from the rain-forest floor or nonnative woods left over from the local furniture industry.
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To analyze large sections of rain forest SavingSpecies relied only on Google Earth, where images were updated every one to three years.
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Afterward, head to Termas de Amarillo, a set of swimming-pool-like hot springs set in the rain forest south of Chaitén.
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Mr. Costa mentioned that his new products incorporate Breu, a resin from the Amazon rain forest that is a natural insect repellent.
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They found that more than 96 percent of the ship's cargo had been illegally harvested from the Amazon rain forest and sent north.
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The boy and his mother were outside the Rain Forest Café when Aranda came up close to them, according to a criminal complaint.
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According to a criminal complaint, the boy and his mother were outside the Rain Forest Café when Aranda came up close to them.
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An omen for the current fire season came in September, when a historic lodge in a rain forest burned nearly to the ground.
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The Interoceanic Highway connecting Peru and Brazil through the Amazon rain forest was built for economic growth, but has resulted in drastic deforestation.
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The AMAZON Rain FOREST IS ON FIRE THIS IS TERRIBLE IT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST CARBON SINKS IN THE WORLD, Spread The Word.
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A single B-183 attack or artillery barrage could level a mountain, fill a river with mud, turn a rain forest to ash.
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But in almost all species, the poison frog carries tadpoles on its back to a rain forest pool for their final growth stage.
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Starting Cost: $1,400 Koro Sun Resort, Fiji The Fijian wedding ceremonies at this beachfront property take place amid a 90-acre rain forest.
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Comparison of two tribes in the Venezuelan rain forest points to diet, rather than advancing age, as a cause of higher blood pressure.
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On the other side of the station is a field that narrows into a stream bed leading up into the dense rain forest.
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But the scene they are creating — a tropical rain forest — requires color and light, elements in short supply at Salinas Valley State Prison.
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In Indonesia, a palm oil company responsible for rain forest destruction helped purchase part of an island in Borneo for an orangutan sanctuary.
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But it was a last stop in other senses as well, carved out of a rain forest that seemed ready to overwhelm it.
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There are highly biodiverse karsts scattered across Southeast Asia, from Vietnam to Borneo, like desert islands surrounded by oceans of tropical rain forest.
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It sits 150 feet above the rain forest floor, offering visitors an unforgettable view where monkeys swing on trees outside their room windows.
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"When it was signed, Amazon was a rain forest in South America," Phyllis Yaffe, Canadian consul general in New York reminded me recently.
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The St. Lucia Jazz & Arts festival is an attraction for some visitors, as are the Chassin region's rain forest and the island's beaches.
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I am camped along the bank of the Corinto River, in a rain forest in Atlántida, Honduras, and have been for nine days.
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In other places, environmental groups pay local people a living wage to patrol the rain forest and collect those thousands of deadly snares.
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Francis' document, "Beloved Amazon," is instead a love letter to the Amazonian rain forest and its indigenous peoples from the first Latin American pope.
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"Zip lining in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 in the rain forest 🌳 with the family and friends @roxy311 what an experience 🤣🍃," she wrote.
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"He spends a lot of time in the Amazon rain forest, so he really hadn't seen it," Newton-John told PEOPLE Now of Easterling.
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Witness the rain forest of tropical shoes and bags that sprang up in Milan last week, where escapism proved the engine of the eye.
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Texts about the Amazon rain forest and the history of Brazil are buried beneath the seven-foot-square surface of "Aftermath 22002," from 2014.
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The Amazon Rain forest produces 2900% of our entire planets oxygen and it's currently burning at a rate of 220006 soccer fields a minute.
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As I sat by the river in the rain forest, in rushed all the thoughts that noise had blotted out, and held at bay.
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The next day, up the coast at Ruby Beach, about 30 miles west of the rain forest, I walked for miles at low tide.
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And now Brazilian officials are investigating a massacre believed to have taken place in August on a riverbank deep in the Amazon rain forest.
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This virtual reality Op-Doc provides an immersive experience into the Hoh Rain Forest, told from the perspective of the acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton.
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In recent years the Amazon rain forest has endured unusually intense and frequent droughts, which some scientists have linked to deforestation and forest fires.
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The team had to travel upriver by boat into the rain forest, then to backpack up mountains for days, hacking a path with machetes.
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As we climbed in the rain through the field, up the stream bed and into the rain forest, the last of civilization slipped away.
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Guests stay in one of Chaa Creek's rain forest cottages and explore Maya sites such as the temples of Tikal, ceremonial caves and pyramids.
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DOROUGOK, Indonesia — The older man wore just a loincloth, revealing taut muscles and leathery skin from decades of living deep in the rain forest.
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Major tourist draws like La Mina waterfall and the Yocahu Tower, with panoramic views of the rain forest and coast, were out of reach.
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At least it was decorated, with subtle sea-lettuce gelée and tiny orbs of finger lime, the "citrus caviar" of the Australian rain forest.
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On land there was rain-forest hiking and ziplining — though none of us, fans or performers, were quite prepared for the intimacies that demanded.
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Two years prior, a war with neighboring Peru resulted in the loss of a significant portion of Ecuador's claim to the Amazon rain forest.
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Although Puerto Rico tends to conjure images of palms and beaches, the rain forest just down the road beckoned, as something a little different.
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The nation is nearly one million square miles, and much of that is thick, impassable rain forest, with rebel groups lurking here and there.
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We go to the Amazon rain forest, where we learn of 400 known languages, and a few more we still may not know about.
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The village of Gajah Makmur is ringed by charred soil, as locals clear the surrounding rain forest to make room for a palm plantation.
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Shopping will be transformed and a new form of tourism will allow people to visit the rain forest and Mars without leaving their homes.
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This particular preserved area, called restinga, is part of one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet, the coastal rain forest of Mata Atlântica.
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After this toad made Mr. Moore's Top 10 Most Wanted list in 2010, it took scientists eight months to find it in Malaysia's rain forest.
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There have been 70,000 fires recorded this year in the Amazon, a rain forest that produces more than 20% of the world's crucial oxygen supply.
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Rocky, who had never lived in the rain forest, apparently learned the skill during his time as an entertainment orangutan before coming to the zoo.
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High above the Amazon rain forest, home to trees that are more than 1,2200 years old, heavy plumes of black smoke spiraled toward the clouds.
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In rushing water full of debris, we all took baby steps looking for solid footing as the rain forest suddenly turned into a turbid lake.
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This $4,449 a night, 10-bedroom rain forest villa in Costa Rica that sleeps 24 people — $20203 per person per night with a full house.
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But even nature is a contested term these days, especially in Brazil, where the rain forest and grasslands were seen as obstacles to be conquered.
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New fires continue to crop up in the Amazon rain forest despite the Brazilian government's most recent efforts to stop the deforestation of the region.
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The giant rat evaded detection probably because of its tiny population, and the fact that it lives hidden within dense vegetation of rain forest canopies.
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But the rain forest has remained closed since Maria left roads inaccessible and all its recreational facilities received blows, Ms. Wallace, the forest supervisor, said.
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The 260-year-old business has been hurt by limited access to El Yunque National Forest, a tropical rain forest that suffered major storm damage.
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House Democrats, including members who forced the Bush administration to insert the rain forest provisions into the treaty a decade ago, have protested Peru's actions.
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With 170 inches of rain a year — compared with 37 in Seattle — Palmyra also has a dense rain forest where 11 species of seabirds nest.
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The governments of Britain, Germany and Norway provided critical support for this effort by paying rain forest states for the emissions avoided by reducing deforestation.
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The treaty gave about half of Ecuador to victorious Peru — a huge stretch of Amazon rain forest believed to be rich in oil and gold.
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On a recent morning, Mr. Chagua trudged through a dense rain forest of vines and tropical birds, which suddenly opened up to his coca farm.
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A video she shot in the Amazon rain forest, for instance, was filmed in 3D; it will be shown next month at the Whitney Biennial.
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"If Homo sapiens disappears, cities will be gone and fields will become rain forest again, but life as such will not change," Epstein told me.
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Yarrabah, which is wedged between mountainous rain forest and the Coral Sea, first got electricity in the 1960s, followed by its first bitumen road, residents say.
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The boy, who has not been publicly identified, was with his mother outside the Rain Forest Cafe when Aranda approached them, according to a criminal complaint.
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His remarks have spurred fears among environmentalists that deforestation will spike in Brazil's portion of the Amazon rain forest, which absorbs vast amounts of greenhouse gases.
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The idea of the weaving of the elastics was inspired by the oca [thatch houses from Mato Grosso, a west-central state in the rain forest].
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Brazil's National Institute of Space Research, which tracks the damage, calculates that one-fifth of Brazil's Amazonian rain forest has been destroyed since the nineteen-seventies.
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Manaus is surrounded by a rain forest the size of France, Spain, Sweden, Greece and Italy combined, and it is reachable only by airplane or boat.
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Mining on the fringes of the Brazilian rain forest, for instance, is disrupting the calls of local black-fronted titi monkeys, a study found last year.
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At times rigorous, at others relaxing, the trip, run by Katerre Expeditions, effectively showcased the complexity of both natural and human existence in the rain forest.
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The North Vietnamese did this in a much more difficult environment: a sparsely populated region of rugged mountains, triple-canopy jungle and dense primeval rain forest.
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It is quite a setting, quite a concept, even if you will hardly feel like you are watching tennis in a rain forest after play begins.
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According to a criminal complaint, the boy and his mother were outside the Rain Forest Café on April 12 when Aranda came up close to them.
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If a farmer clears a patch of rain forest to raise cattle, that's much worse for global warming than a farmer raising cattle on existing pasture.
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Broadleaf evergreen and teak and mahogany rain forest covered all except for the thickets of bamboo and the clearings in the valleys of tall elephant grass.
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The Congo Basin, home to the world's second-largest rain forest, is being degraded mainly by industrial logging, small-scale agriculture and demand for wood fuel.
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The hurricane uprooted so many trees that visitors to El Yunque, Puerto Rico's famous rain forest, were now treated to newly opened vistas of the ocean.
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"He seemed more concerned in protecting himself than in protecting the rain forest," Marcio Astrini, the coordinator of public policies at Greenpeace, said in a statement.
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"He seemed more concerned in protecting himself than in protecting the rain forest," Marcio Astrini, the coordinator of public policies at Greenpeace, said in a statement.
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Taveuni, known as the Garden Island for its rich volcanic soil and farming, is crowned with dense, dark rain forest that is often shrouded in mist.
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Before Nicolás (Shaco) Flores was killed, deep in the Peruvian rain forest, he had spent decades reaching out to the mysterious people called the Mashco Piro.
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In a rain forest in South America millions of years ago, itty-bitty ants with brains no bigger than a pinpoint had already figured it out.
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The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We RealizedImage: David Hughes/Penn State UniversityCarpenter ants of the Brazilian rain forest have it rough.
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Environmentalists say that threatens the Amazon rain forest, considered by scientists as nature's best defense against global warming, because the tress absorb vast amounts of greenhouse gas.
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Indeed, the house is so open to flora and fauna that sometimes capuchin monkeys mosey into the master bathroom, which is partially exposed to the rain forest.
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Six days in, we had toured a rain forest in the southwest of Rwanda, spent two days with the mountain gorillas and crossed over the Ugandan border.
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Jair Bolsonaro, the newly elected President of Brazil, has vowed to institute policies that would dramatically accelerate the deforestation of the Amazon, the world's largest rain forest.
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We have to go to the ends of the earth — the ocean, the ice shelf, the rain forest — anywhere we possibly can to find new natural products.
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Such was Mr. Hutton's eye that the often gritty urban landscapes of his city films can seem as natural as a peat bog or a rain forest.
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There's even a bunya nut, which may have been a favorite snack among the dinosaurs, and another nugget from a rain forest tree called the Atherton oak.
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Focusing on conservation and scientific research, the 12-day tour is a sampler of climates: Andean plateaus, biodiverse Ballestas Islands, Amazon rain forest, coastal desert and canyons.
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Sitting by the vast Amazon River, bewitched by pink river dolphins and torrential downpours, surrounded by rain forest, these men hungered for a legacy worthy of kings.
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I was walking the grounds of my hotel in Kalaloch Beach, less than an hour's drive from the rain forest, when I heard another guest call out.
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In the course of covering waves of animal deaths both ancient and contemporary, Kolbert reports from the rain forest on the plight of the Panamanian golden frog.
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Mr. Bolsonaro has also made it easier for civilians to acquire weapons and for industries to have greater access to protected areas of the Amazon rain forest.
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It profiles Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist, as he travels from noisy city streets to the Hoh Rain Forest in western Washington State in search of quiet.
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Amazon: The world's largest retailer and eight South American countries that contain the world's largest rain forest are in a battle over who owns the name Amazon.
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One is the mounting threats indigenous communities face as logging, agriculture and mining encroach ever more aggressively into pristine corners of the world's largest tropical rain forest.
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For a rain forest escape with a private beach, try this unusual Costa Rican property, a $10 million, ten-bedroom estate of clean lines and huge windows.
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The first time that I felt actually lonely was when I was driving around a beautiful rain-forest park in Chile and I had no cell signal.
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Shrouded by rain forest and perched on a hilltop overlooking the East China Sea, Sankara is by far the best high-end hotel option on the island.
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Anti-government protests in Nicaragua began this spring with people frustrated over the government's response to a devastating wildfire in an area of protected tropical rain forest.
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Far from an empty expanse of rain forest dotted by tiny outposts, the Brazilian Amazon has nearly 413 million people, with about two million in Manaus alone.
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Deeper inland, over dark green hills in the distance, a major bush fire last year burned through rain forest, in what scientists described as an unprecedented occurrence.
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But Russia's boreal forest is allowed to grow back after logging and fires, making the process less damaging than clearing tropical rain forest for farming or ranching.
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In this dark ride, passengers hop in a reed boat that takes them on a bioluminescent rain forest expedition that is both thrilling and a little trippy.
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In Puerto Rico, conservationists are worried about several species of birds and other animals in the island's El Junque rain forest, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria.
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The huge expansion of palm oil plantations is widely acknowledged to be a key driver of rain-forest destruction in Indonesia, which deprives the orangutans of habitat.
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Two years ago one of Dr. Ong's colleagues was walking through what was once a thriving tropical rain forest, north of Manila, that had since suffered heavy deforestation.
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The retreat will feature a museum exhibition at CMCArts; private rain forest dinners; studio tours; film screenings, featuring work by Caribbean-Danish artist Jeannette Ehlers; and live music.
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Click here to view original GIFThe Amazon rain forest is full of enormous flora and fauna that are more than happy to kill you without blinking an eye.
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Exceeding 600,000 acres, the Olympic National Forest— located on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula — encompasses a variety of landscapes, from temperate rain forest to rugged mountains to coastal beaches.
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Ms. Hinton said she planned to return to her work as a spokeswoman for Ecuadoreans in their legal fight against Chevron over contamination in the Amazon rain forest.
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Nuquí was more than 20 miles to the north, Buenaventura over 100 miles to the south, and the undeveloped rain forest extended dozens of miles to the east.
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Rojas-Berscia's Ph.D. research, with the Shawi people of the Peruvian rain forest, doesn't involve fMRI data or computer modelling, but it is still arcane to a layperson.
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Some of that bitter comedy clings to the hero of Evelyn Waugh's "A Handful of Dust" (1934), who heads haplessly into the rain forest and never comes back.
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The steep mountain forests where the caribou dwell are part of an inland temperate rain forest, a unique ecosystem characterized by frequent precipitation and the only one inland.
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Its geodesic domes and pyramids contained a miniature rain forest, a mangrove, a desert, a coral reef — and eight people, sealed inside to see if they could survive.
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The Amazon in peril: Indigenous territories and other protected lands in the world's largest tropical rain forest are under mounting threat from illegal mining, according to a study.
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Other tipping points include rain forest loss in places like the Amazon, monsoon shifts in Africa and Asia, changes to ocean circulation patterns, and coral reef die-offs.
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Continued weak environmental governance, the scientists warned, could lead to the loss of up to 17,000 square miles of rain forest a year, endangering the entire Amazon ecosystem.
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The wonder I felt when I first put on an Oculus Rift, and lost myself in Mr. Steegman Mangrané's rain forest or Ms. Rossin's floating world, is undeniable.
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Occasionally, he leafed through his books, including "Real Life Monsters: Creatures of the Rain Forest," a picture book that he'd picked up during the destruction of the Jungle.
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In Brazil, a fledgling movement of progressive governors is trying to further climate goals despite President Jair Bolsonaro's efforts to roll back protections for the Amazonian rain forest.
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It contains an extraordinary range of ecosystems, from the alpine valleys and salt flats of the western highlands to the rain forest and wetlands of the eastern lowlands.
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Environmentalists worry that such encounters will only increase because of the country's rapid rate of rain forest destruction, which disrupts ecosystems and leads predators to seek new prey.
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Once, while on vacation in Costa Rica, I was standing next to a young man on a zip line platform in a rain forest when he began to hyperventilate.
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In the interior of impoverished Amazonas, a state dominated by lush rain forest but also a major producer of TVs because of tax incentives, production jumped some 47 percent.
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Zika is just the latest of many potential health concerns diligent travelers need to consider when visiting Brazil, a vast country that encompasses the world's most important rain forest.
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PARIS — The bioacoustician and musician Bernie Krause has been recording soundscapes of the natural world since 1968, from coral reefs to elephant stamping grounds to the Amazonian rain forest.
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Before that, people were piling the rain forest fruit onto tacos, stirring it into South Asian curries, and mixing it with vegetables and meat in Southeast Asian stir fries.
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Inside the headset while wearing a subwoofer backpack, you become that seed, watching and feeling as you grow from beneath the ground and sprout into a rain forest sapling.
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The three-acre complex contained a miniature rain forest, a mangrove, a desert and a coral reef — along with seven people who had been sealed inside for a month.
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Certainly that was true for poet and critic Meghan O'Rourke, who left an especially chaotic period in her life for the Hoh Rain Forest, in Washington's Olympic National Park.
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Occasionally, a shard of an old ironwood tree shot into the air, a remnant of the primordial canopy of dense rain forest that dominated the land until very recently.
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The Arctic is on track to be ice-free in summers in 20 years, researchers say, while the Amazon rain forest could turn into a savanna in 50 years.
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"Singapore used to be like a linguistic tropical rain forest — overgrown, and a bit chaotic but very vibrant and thriving," said Tan Dan Feng, a language historian in Singapore.
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New data from Brazil's space agency reported that in one year, more than 3,700 square miles of the rain forest, an important buffer against climate change, had been razed.
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As the action shifts from mountains to rain forest, Landes makes clever use of drone-mounted cameras and trippy sound design to turn the natural world into a hallucination.
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They connect to all the things he cared about, like rain forest preservation, animal rights, human rights, and share often how he helped them to make changes in their lives.
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One of four rain forests in the peninsula, the Hoh Rain Forest— which gets between 12 and 14 feet of precipitation a year— is known for its gorgeous mossy terrain.
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"Nature" visits the Arcas Wildlife Rescue Center in Guatemala, where creatures from the second-largest tropical rain forest in the Americas are rehabilitated before being released back into the wild.
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The first big hit was a segment in which Dan D'Humorous reported from the "jungle" of Nigerian politics, the green screen behind him filled in with a C.G.I. rain forest.
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During the riders' meeting, Urbina, a former triathlete with a reputation as an adventurer, warned competitors to take extra care when racing in Carara National Park, a thick rain forest.
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"The Peruvian rain forest is one of the wonders of the world," Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee wrote in a letter to Mr. Lighthizer on Wednesday.
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After Brazil's economy plunged into recession in 21990, politicians and industry leaders who favor loosening environmental protections gained the upper hand in a long-running contest over the rain forest.
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While most of those at the Iguaca Aviary in Puerto Rico's rain forest survived, the fate of those wild birds in the Rio Abajo and El Yunque forests is unknown.
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Its protected status has deterred the runaway development rampant elsewhere in the Amazon that has squelched biodiversity, destroyed indigenous communities and reduced millions of acres of rain forest to pastureland.
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The company currently has 23 forest projects — three in the Amazon rain forest in Brazil and Peru and projects in the U.S. in California, Vermont, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maine .
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The story swings from the Nevada desert to the Indonesian rain forest to Wall Street boardrooms, and the screen bristles with signifiers of capitalist activity: meetings, phone calls, stock tickers.
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During their research, the team realized that several elusive males, which have wings and are very rarely seen, were emerging from the nest and flying off into the rain forest.
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On the wall of the stage was a destroyed statue of Jesus Christ recovered from a church attacked by the FARC in 2002 in the rain forest village of Bojaya.
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That mattered — and still matters — both as a model for other trade deals and also because the environment ostensibly being protected includes a large chunk of the Amazon rain forest.
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I was born in East Gippsland, in a town called Club Terrace, which lies a farther three-hour drive into the increasingly wild countryside that eventually becomes temperate rain forest.
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A highlight of the eight-day tour, departing from Kigali, is a trek into the jungle to view mountain gorillas, who live in a tropical rain forest in the Virunga Mountains.
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Conservationists and cocoa industry representatives expect the trend to help mitigate the effects of clear-cutting that has ripped some 19723,000 square kilometers from the Amazon rain forest since the 1980s.
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Erica Mapp, also from Trinidad, is working on a poetry manuscript based on the paintings of Vincent van Gogh and another manuscript about the need to preserve the Caribbean rain forest.
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Various factions rose up to oppose his administration's actions, including Aidesep, the interethnic association for the development of the Peruvian rain forest, an organization of indigenous Amazonians led by Alberto Pizango.
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Annea Lockwood has produced "sound maps" of the Hudson, Danube, and Housatonic rivers; Francisco López's " La Selva " is a transfixing seventy-minute fabric of sounds from the Costa Rican rain forest.
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A PACKAGE AT A MALAYSIAN GETAWAY The island of Pangkor Laut, located off the coast of Perak, Malaysia, is a little-known destination with pristine private beaches and lush rain forest.
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My plan had been to stick to the main island, which is filled with enough lush rain forest, volcanic peaks and cocoa plantations to keep an intrepid tourist interested for days.
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I later learned that the 270,483-acre treasure, El Yunque, the only tropical rain forest in the United States forest system and a major driver of the island's tourism, was obliterated.
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Leakage: How do you know the landowner you just paid not to cut down an acre of rain forest won't use the money to buy a different acre and clear that?
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SÃO PAULO, Brazil — President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil poses the single greatest threat to the fragile equilibrium of the Amazon rain forest since the country was ruled by a military dictatorship.
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In 2015, Department of Homeland Security officials in Houston, acting on intelligence from their Peruvian counterparts, seized 1,770 metric tons of Amazon rain forest wood they found in a rusty freighter.
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I close my eyes and again experience the wonder of the rain forest, the murmuring streams, the rustling leaves and the myriad sounds of animal life, chirping and singing and buzzing.
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For years, Brazil, which has the largest share of the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rain forest, has cast itself as a nation committed to sustainable development and sound environmental policies.
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At Manuel Antonio Beach, on the central Pacific coast, the group enjoyed walks and ziplining in the surrounding rain forest, and after a final night in San José, they headed home.
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Then the Norwegian prime minister, Erna Solberg, told him that Brazil must address its corruption problem, and Norway halved its contribution to an Amazon rain forest fund because deforestation was increasing.
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Simon McBurney's astonishing one-man show — about an American photojournalist lost in the Amazon rain forest — retunes, rearranges and reproportions your senses, while taking you places you never expected to visit.
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I found myself going on hikes, snorkeling, swimming, and traversing rickety bridges in the rain forest without thinking much about it — it's just what you do when you're in Costa Rica.
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GCF data show it has also disbursed $1 million to a Mongolian commercial bank to help curb greenhouse gas emissions, and $1 million to a project to protect the Peruvian rain forest.
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She's probably in Peru climbing Machu Picchu, or getting the world's best gazpacho recipe straight from a top chef in Andalusia, or snapping a selfie with a toucan in the rain forest.
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Carpeted in rain forest and braided with waterways, southeast Alaska is among the largest wild salmon producers in the world, its tourism and salmon fishing industries grossing about $2 billion a year.
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And doubters be damned: to anyone else who doesn't understand the extreme genre or who thinks she's better off at home, both Grindmother and Rain Forest have only positive vibes to send.
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Pint-size drum majorettes, dancing girls dressed as rain-forest frogs and thumping reggaeton music coursed through a canyon of Puerto Rican flags along Fifth Avenue in New York City on Sunday.
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"The running joke in admissions is the mission trip to Costa Rica to save the rain forest," Ángel Pérez, who is in charge of admissions at Trinity College in Hartford, told me.
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If there is hope for the rain forest, and for countries where authoritarians threaten democracy and progressive agendas, it lies in the determination and power of civil society activists like Sônia Guajajara.
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"Experience our Natural Beauty!" had a wide gorgeous smile from a Liberian park ranger showing off peaceful rain forest lagoons, tented lodges on the beach and real-life Liberian surfers cresting waves.
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This was used by the Supreme Court in 2006 to rule in favor of a church that used ayahuasca, a sacramental tea made from two plants found in the Amazonian rain forest.
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For example, microbial ecologists using DNA sequencing have found — in New York City's Central Park — a diversity of soil organisms equal to anything they might have found in a tropical rain forest.
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Napoleon Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist whose studies of the indigenous Yanomami people of the Amazon rain forest made them famous but whose methods provoked intense disputes among other anthropologists, died on Sept.
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In the Brazilian Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, deforestation rose in 2015 for the first time in nearly a decade, to nearly two million acres from August 2015 to July 2016.
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Family Travel You know things are going pretty well when the big family argument is over whether to splash in the rain forest waterfall or loll around on the white-sand beach.
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After buying 100 acres of the Amazon rain forest sight unseen, Charlie Hamilton James, a wildlife cameraman, discovers that preserving the ecosystem from destruction may be more than a one-man job.
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Smiling broadly, Love let her loll around up there on her back for a time, Cashew using the same upward scooping wing flaps that caiques employ to bathe on wet rain-forest leaves.
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So are the sounds of the Amazon rain forest, the shriek of birds, the crackle of leaves underfoot, the chatter of children, the whine of mosquitoes and the roar of a Cessna plane.
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The Times traveled hundreds of miles into the Brazilian Amazon, staying with a tribe in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory, above, as it struggled with the shrinking rain forest and confronted illegal gold miners.
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CreditCreditRogelio Baez-Vega, via Gallery Km 0.2 When Hurricane Maria began battering Puerto Rico last September, the actor Modesto Lacén was at his house in Rio Grande, near the El Yunque rain forest.
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It turns out the "Rang-tan" is a baby orangutan that has lost its mother and the rain forest it once called home, and that it no longer has a place to live.
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And given the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil, who has threatened to roll back environmental protections on the rain forest, such initiatives are even more important now, she said.
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During Ms. Rousseff's presidency, which ended when she was removed from office following impeachment, amnesty was granted to landowners who had illegally cleared forests, encouraging continued lawbreaking in the world's largest rain forest.
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In effect, he has been running a 50-year experiment, during which he has collected data at the Salk Institute in San Diego, in the Amazon rain forest and in the Kenyan savanna.
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"I do question the wisdom of it," he said over a cappuccino in the lobby of the Bowery Hotel, which looks like a British manor's library with a rain forest growing in it.
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In the new study, Dr. Sonnenburg and his colleagues also compared the Hadza microbiome with those of people in 17 other societies, including urban Americans and Yanomamo villagers in the Amazon rain forest.
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In the central section, a fable about a boy's journey through the rain forest in pursuit of honey, the integration of live action and the projection of gorgeous line drawings is a delight.
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A vast stretch of deep-green temperate rain forest bigger than Maine and stretching from northwest Washington to Alaska — called the Great Bear in British Columbia — has emerged as a laboratory for change.
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In a country with more than 4,600 miles of coastline, I wondered if one of Brazil's best beaches could really be situated deep in the untamed interior of the world's largest rain forest.
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In addition to creating a standard 330-foot clearing alongside the pavement, the design of Governor Ayade's plan would denude a staggering six miles of rain forest on either side of the highway.
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"Within it are volcanic beaches scattered with the remains of massive Sitka spruces, evergreen-crowded mountains, broad, flat valleys and the Hoh Rain Forest," which is among the quietest places in the country.
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I used to keep all these different tropical insects in my room and I think I wanted to just live in a rain forest and collect insects when I was seven, eight years old.
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In the wild, caiques, diminutive dollops of luminous yellow, white and deep blue-green, fly in huge, tightly knit flocks whose collective wing feathers make a singular whirring sound above the rain-forest canopy.
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No one, for example, designed a fungus to invade ants' bodies and mind-control them around the rain forest—that unusual strategy emerged thanks to generation upon generation of random mutations and natural selection.
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Furthermore, our doctors, nurses and midwives understand their patients' asthma, TB, dengue, malaria and nutrition status are reflections of the integrity of local rain forest ecosystem and they discuss this everyday with their patients.
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And sure enough, the females lay the eggs in a relatively dry spot in the rain forest, and once the embryos reach tadpole stage, the males load them on their backs and take off.
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In the play, Ms. Hoss makes this activism come to life by showing pictures and home videos of her father, including some from trips he made to help save the Brazilian Amazon's rain forest.
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Their range stretches from the stunted pine trees of the north, past the swaying palm trees of Florida, and into Central and South America, where the birds hunt amid rain forest ferns and orchids.
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CreditCreditMeridith Kohut for The New York Times The Times traveled hundreds of miles into the Brazilian Amazon, staying with a tribe in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory as it struggled with the shrinking rain forest.
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Every year the nearly 400 billion trees in the Amazon rain forest and all the creatures that depend on them are drenched in seven feet of rain — four times the annual rainfall in London.
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In the early 13s, a business school professor named Paul Nutt set out to catalog real-world decisions the way a botanist might catalog the various types of vegetation growing in a rain forest.
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Indigenous territories contain more forest than all of the government's conservation units combined, and historically Brazil's native peoples have been far more effective in defending the rain forest than the government or private landowners.
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In August, Mr. Temer signed a decree to open a rain forest reserve — an area larger than Denmark — to commercial mining, threatening decades of progress on environmental protection and indigenous rights in the Amazon.
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When the all-star team of scientists disembarked to stretch their legs amid this temperate rain forest, they encountered knee-deep mosses and nail-sized thorns, a land as impassable as the Amazon jungle.
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If you can be coaxed out of your chrysalis of winter clothing, you'll find 500 butterflies floating through tropical, 80-degree weather, a rain forest canopy and simulated sunlight on the Upper West Side.
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The beach is beautiful, and we wake up every day to views of the ocean in front of us, but there's also a big farming community with lots of farmland and tropical rain forest.
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WASHINGTON — The United States is accusing Peru of violating its commitment to protect the Amazon rain forest from deforestation, threatening to hold Lima in violation of the 2007 United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement.
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BRASILIA/PORTO VELHO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to a global outcry over the destruction of the world's largest tropical rain forest.
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The captain and crew had a long run ahead, nearly 215,247 miles down the Amazon, then another 53,25 miles north to Tampico, Mexico, and finally to Houston, with lumber harvested from the Amazon rain forest.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that the fires raging in the Amazon rain forest are an international emergency and called for the situation to be discussed at the G7 summit.
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Its founder desired to build an ecosystem wider and deeper than any rain forest, aspiring to offer more products and services than there are grains of sand in the wide, desolate expanse of north Africa.
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And while it's true there's a lot more diversity of animal species in jungle or rain forest areas, there's a danger in believing that emerging diseases could happen in only some parts of the world.
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If you're looking for one with a few more bells and whistles though, Step2 also has a two-tier Tropical Rain Forest Water Table ($69.99) and a dinosaur-themed Dino Dig Sand & Water Table ($68.99).
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"I was in the rain forest in Brunei, and I was at home in Canada and it was snowing, and I made these videos and sent them to him, and it devastated him," she said.
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An article on July 26 about Peru's efforts to protect the rain forest from illegal gold mining misstated part of the name of a park where forest rangers and marines conducted a raid in April.
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Its winds of up to 155 miles an hour wrecked thousands of acres of trees, including much of El Yunque National Forest, 28,000 acres of lush tropical rain forest east of the capital, San Juan.
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As forests start to recover, the mix of species is often different — in a rain forest like El Yunque, for example, species that thrive in full light tend to take over until the canopy regrows.
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And a few houses in Luquillo, which are not Prepa clients, require special permits, because they are very close to El Yunque National Forest, the only tropical rain forest in the United States forest system.
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But he expects the losses to push the forest toward a tipping point, after which "there is a sudden and dramatic loss of the rain-forest system," and the changes will become obvious to anyone.
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Ivory Tower With their strange and puzzling relationship to numbers, the Pirahã, a small group of hunter-gatherers who live deep in the Amazon rain forest, seem like some fantastical creation of Jorge Luis Borges.
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Such a challenge is at its thorniest in the Central African Republic, a landlocked country in the heart of the continent boasting large sections of rain forest and haltingly emerging from years of civil war.
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"Don't get me started on the Amazon," Mr. Lima said, referring to the vast river basin where, the authorities say, the expansion of Brazil's ranching frontier has illegally destroyed large tracts of the rain forest.
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But we planned to drive via the Parque National Natural Puracé, and the road bisecting this jungle and rain forest landscape is mostly unpaved, so we would be at a crawl much of the day.
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The first sign that the fever was back in Brazil was the death last year of hundreds of monkeys in the Atlantic rain forest in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo and Sao Paulo.
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There are riding stables with a team of guides to take guests out on sunrise and sunset horseback-riding trips along the beach, or up into the hills and past rice fields and the rain forest.
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Huge deep-sea oil discoveries and the opening of a new agricultural frontier on the edge of the Amazon rain forest had catapulted Brazil onto the global stage, positioning it to satisfy China's demand for commodities.
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Over the summer, fires set to clear land for palm oil and paper plantations in the Indonesian rain forest raged out of control, wreathing much of the country and some of its neighbors in choking haze.
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Mutated to a size larger than the woman, the mouse carries her down a fire escape and into a park that turns into a rain forest alive with monkeys, butterflies, ants, frogs and gloriously colorful flora.
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Ecologists observing El Yunque, the Puerto Rican tropical rain forest, recently found 60 times fewer invertebrates in their sticky traps than they had in 1976 — and this was measured before Hurricane Maria, which devastated the forest.
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Perhaps the most intriguing part of the study was the authors' descriptions of how incredibly difficult it is to even find dead animals in a dense rain forest, and then to safely take samples from them.
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This is a movie about the experience (with a few understated pleas for the preservation of the rain forest), and it is adventurous in its use of surreal imagery to convey what the characters are experiencing.
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Such is the case of seeing Andy Warhol's metallic balloons, which he made in 2008 for an installation called "Silver Clouds" and was later picked up by Cunningham for a performance of "Rain Forest" in 1968.
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SAO PAULO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that the fires raging in the Amazon rain forest are an international emergency and called for the situation to be discussed at the G7 summit.
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But I will say that one of my favorite ones to draw and to learn about would have to be the Tasmanian temperate rain forest, mainly because the fun facts about the animals were just so great.
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On the same weekend, I saw Simon McBurney's "The Encounter," another riveting theater piece that combines old-fashioned, what-will-happen-next narrative with 3D audio that takes the audience into the Amazon rain forest, via headphones.
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El Yunque, the rain forest (a young woman covered in leaves), stood on 44th Street before the parade started, chatting with the beaches (a girl clad head to toe in shells and a skirt of ocean water).
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FRONT PAGE An article on July 23622 about Peru's efforts to protect the rain forest from illegal gold mining misstated part of the name of a park where forest rangers and marines conducted a raid in April.
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My reporting career has taken me from smoldering, fresh-cut roadsides in the Amazon rain forest to the thinning sea ice around the North Pole, from the White House and Vatican to Nairobi's vast, still-unlit slums.
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Bass committed to spending a hundred and fifty million dollars to create the three-acre compound, which included a rain forest, a desert, an ocean, and a farm, with thousands of species of plants, insects, and animals.
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A 3,000-acre on-site farm produces more than 70 percent of the food served to guests of Belcampo Belize, a 17-room eco-lodge in a Belizean rain forest that balances food sustainability and natural adventure.
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CreditCreditDavid Maurice Smith for The New York Times KANGAVA BAY, Rennell Island — On Rennell Island, a wild, windswept speck in the Pacific Ocean, water binds everything, from its teeming tropical rain forest to its craggy limestone cliffs.
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Tour the island's enormous old mansions, stroll along the Strand (a stretch of art shops, boutiques, bars and restaurants) or take your kids to the pyramids of Moody Gardens, which hold an aquarium and a rain forest.
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The artist, who declined to be named, was born in the rain forest but had learned the art of wood marquetry as a young man, having been sent to Germany by priests who recognized his artistic potential.
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According to data collected by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, a scientific organization working for the sustainable development of the Amazon, Renca is home to one of the highest concentrations of endangered mammals in the rain forest.
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The number of species that can be found on a small patch of healthy reef is probably greater than can be encountered in a similar amount of space anywhere else on Earth, including the Amazon rain forest.
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If these influential companies don't take a clear and principled stand against Mr. Bolsonaro's promises to open the Amazon for business, they will also bear responsibility for abetting his plunder of the world's largest tropical rain forest.
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The Group of 7, after a session on climate, agreed on a $20 million aid package to help Brazil and its neighbors fight the blazes in the rain forest, a crucial absorber of the world's carbon dioxide.
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The Group of 7, after a session on climate, agreed on a $20 million aid package to help Brazil and its neighbors fight the blazes in the rain forest, a crucial absorber of the world's carbon dioxide.
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Another group, the Coalition for the Northeast Ecological Corridor, is working on plans for a new trail that would link "El Yunque," the inland tropical rain forest, to the coast between the towns of Luquillo and Fajardo.
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Wildlife Theater, from the Central Park Zoo, will present two short plays: "Penguin State of Mind," which explores these birds' adaptations, and "The Adventures of Captain Cocoa," which follows the exploits of a superhero in the rain forest.
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Headphones are available to borrow (available from noon to midnight at a kiosk on Seventh Avenue between 43rd and 233th Streets), but visitors can also download Soundwalk Collective's smartphone app, which has rain forest recordings and tribal songs.
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Headphones are available to borrow (available from noon to midnight at a kiosk on Seventh Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets), but visitors can also download Soundwalk Collective's smartphone app, which has rain forest recordings and tribal songs.
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Headphones are available to borrow (available from noon to midnight at a kiosk on Seventh Avenue between 43rd and 303th Streets), but visitors can also download Soundwalk Collective's smartphone app, which has rain forest recordings and tribal songs.
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The Chicxulub crater is buried beneath 66 million years of sediments, and if you were to look at it today you would see that half of it is underwater and the other half is covered by rain forest.
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Indigenous rights and environmental policy are intertwined in Brazil: most of its indigenous territories, about an eighth of the country's total area, are located in the Amazon, whose rain forest generates twenty per cent of the world's oxygen.
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Within it are volcanic beaches scattered with the remains of massive Sitka spruces, evergreen-crowded mountains, broad, flat valleys and the Hoh Rain Forest, through which 12 miles of hiking trails and the glacier-formed Hoh River run.
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The Bolsonaro election also calls into question the fate of a proposal by an international coalition of Amazon indigenous groups to the United Nations Biodiversity Conference last year to create a rain forest sanctuary the size of Mexico.
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"I was very badly injured, but the nearest doctor was 26 days away on foot, through a narrow trail in the rain forest where you couldn't take horses," Mr. Brock told the British newspaper The Independent in 21952.
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Incorporating one-of-a-kind pieces based on everything from calla lilies and pansies to multicolored rain-forest mushrooms and tropical butterflies, every pattern in their surfaces and every curve in their silhouettes is realized in minute detail.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A crisis over burning forest in the Amazon is "incredibly tragic", actor Leonardo DiCaprio said on Monday, urging governments to do more, amid growing international outrage over the damage to the world's largest tropical rain forest.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A crisis over burning forest in the Amazon is "incredibly tragic", actor Leonardo DiCaprio said on Monday, urging governments to do more, amid growing international outrage over the damage to the world's largest tropical rain forest.
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Having been instructed on the best camera placement procedures by Dr. Pimm and Dr. Mazariegos, Ms. Kolarova set out on this particular morning into the rain forest with a local conservancy guide as Alex and I tagged along.
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When some of Mr. Lopez's nature recordings — heard on albums like "La Selva (Sound Environments From a Neotropical Rain Forest)" — collided with the ambient harshness of his more abstract works, his varied talents were more amplified than ever.
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A February thunderstorm dropped 200 millimeters (8 inches) of rain in 12 hours on the Alunorte plant, causing red water to flood streets, homes and areas of the Amazon rain forest near the plant, drawing the attention of authorities.
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" And as Kurt Vonnegut would have said, so it goes, right up to 20th-century Brazil, about which a Duquet descendant assures himself: "The rain forest is so large and rich it defeats all who try to conquer it.
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I'd been poring over media images of the destruction, but I was still shaken by what I confronted as we drove the 25 miles or so from the capital to my mother's home near the El Yunque rain forest.
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During the last ice age, the Amazon rain forest shrunk and possibly cut some hybrids off from their parent species — the golden-crowned manakin's habitat today is separated from snow-capped and opal-crowned territories by rivers and mountains.
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In an indication that Bolsonaro, a far-right conservative, is forging closer ties with neighboring countries than with European nations, he accepted Chile's offer of four aircraft to help fight the fires sweeping through the world's largest rain forest.
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Ms. Furlong is known to prod clientele if they're looking for something sweet, bitter, boozy or refreshing, then customizes cocktails on the spot, sometimes utilizing rain forest herbs, flowers or fruits, macerating in cacique, the local sugar cane spirit.
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That bit is crucial; clearing land for livestock is the leading driver of habitat loss around the world and has been connected to the devastating fires in Brazil's Amazon rain forest—more than 90,000 blazes so far this year.
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The road for dozens of miles then ascended through pockets of rain forest that included colonies of wax palms — Colombia's national tree and the world's tallest palms — and jungle passes, and across bridges spanning the Cauca and Mazamorras Rivers.
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HURRICANE IRMA: THE SCIENCE OF THE DEADLY STORM Known as the Saharan Air Layer, the dust also helps restore nutrients in the Amazon rain forest as it sprinkles onto soil that is frequently hit by flooding rains, according to NOAA.
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Travelers can trace back to Tobago's storied nature almost everywhere: The Tobago Main Ridge Forest Reserve is the oldest rain forest reserve in the Western Hemisphere, and Pigeon Point Beach is consistently named one of the best beaches in the world.
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The court challenge argues that the sale would open old-growth woodlands on Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass to wide-scale logging without proper study of the environmental impact on what remains of North America's largest temperate rain forest.
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Maybe most important, the estate is home, outdoors and in vast greenhouses, to more than 3,500 plant species, most indigenous, about 50 of them discovered by the artist on his repeated, and increasingly anguished, research trips to the Amazonian rain forest.
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Other highlights from the sale include Helen Frankenthaler's "Mica" (1981), which sold for $487,4793; Louise Nevelson's "Rain Forest Column XVIII" (1962), which sold for $225,075; and Sam Francis's "Of the Rope Star (SFF:636)" (1973–1974), which sold for $237,575.
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Other highlights from the sale include Helen Frankenthaler's "Mica" (1981), which sold for $487,575; Louise Nevelson's "Rain Forest Column XVIII" (1962), which sold for $225,075; and Sam Francis's "Of the Rope Star (SFF:636)" (19483–1974), which sold for $237,575.
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On one level, this singular piece from Complicite, a long-lived London-based troupe that regularly ventures where no actor has gone before, is simply a classic adventure story of an intrepid Western explorer lost in the Amazon rain forest.
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The city provides access to pristine rain forest, jungle lodges and biodiversity research stations, but it is also the entry point to a 21st century gold rush that has not only eroded trees and rivers but also the rule of law.
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Lothar Baumgarten, a conceptual artist who used photography, film, prints, storytelling, soundscapes and more to explore a wide range of subjects, most notably the collision of cultures threatening people like the Yanomami in the South American rain forest, died on Dec.
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In statements Thursday and Friday, the museum responded to criticism that an institution dedicated to nature and science would serve as a podium to honor someone who has proposed opening up more of the Amazon rain forest to mining and agribusiness.
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A city of 2 million people surrounded by millions of square miles of rain forest, Manaus has historically been defined by isolation, but a turn of the century commodities boom in Brazil helped finance billions in development in the Amazon.
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Governor Brown should direct the California Air Resources Board, 12 of whose 14 voting members he appoints, to include a rain forest standard in proposed regulations the board is expected to release soon, updating the state's cap and trade program.
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The dried and decaying peatland soil in this part of Borneo would almost certainly continue to burn for many more months, even years, releasing volumes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that far exceeded those from the rain-forest deforestation itself.
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One of the banner service programs is a two week stint in Puerto Rico where volunteers offer hurricane relief and work on community projects like repairing rain forest trails and cleaning trash and debris from coastal wildlife refuges on Vieques Island.
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I'd seen one or two gunnera earlier in my Chile stay, in the rain forest of Alerce Andino, the northernmost entry on the Route of Parks (named after the towering, ancient alerce, or larch, trees that are like Chile's redwoods).
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Brazil's National Institute of Space Research, which tracks the damage, calculates that one-fifth of Brazil's Amazonian rain forest—the world's largest remaining "green lung," which absorbs billions of tons of carbon dioxide—has been destroyed since the nineteen-seventies.
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There was no tub and the shampoo and lotion were nothing to write home about (though old-fashioned stationery was a charming touch), but the shower was large and glass-walled, with marble tile and two chrome rain-forest-style heads.
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"Wildfires create a substantial contribution, because they happen in places like the Amazon rain forest and the peat bogs in Indonesia, which contain a lot of carbon," says Colin Prentice, director of the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires at Imperial College London.
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The El Yunque National Forest, a verdant expanse the size of San Francisco and the only tropical rain forest in the United States forest system, has trails that are clean, well-maintained and well-marked from the roads cutting through it.
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Francophile adherents to the faith included leading figures in the tumultuous period after the 1889 coup that toppled Brazil's emperor, such as Cândido Rondon, the explorer who mapped out far-flung stretches of the Amazon rain forest with Theodore Roosevelt.
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Here's an overlooked bit of research that stuck with me this year: To help various species fend off extinction, scientists in Brazil are trying to stitch together fragments of rain forest that have been carved up by roads and logging.
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The announcement followed days of criticism that a prominent institution dedicated to nature and science would serve as a platform to recognize someone who has proposed environmental deregulation and opening more of the Amazon rain forest to mining and agribusiness.
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The Wyndham Grand Rio Mar Puerto Rico Golf & Beach Resort near the El Yunque rain forest in Puerto Rico, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria, will coordinate transportation for and send packed lunches with guests who sign up to volunteer in the park.
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Raised in Salta, a city tucked in Argentina's northwest corner at the foot of the Andes and the edge of the rain forest, she was one of seven siblings, and, she said, the child charged with making her prosperous family's home movies.
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In this area, some of the thickest rain forest on Earth covers precipitous mountain chains, some over a mile high, with roaring torrents, frequent landslides, steep ravines, waterfalls, pools of quick mud that will swallow a person alive, and noxious insects carrying diseases.
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Many pygmies live by hunting, fishing, gathering and garden-plot farming, so encampments were considered more likely to arise in deep rain forest, near rivers, far from cities and far from the intensive farming and animal husbandry practiced by other ethnic groups.
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BAYANGA, Central African Republic — The cutest primates on earth may be Inguka and Inganda, gorilla toddler twins who playfully tumble over each other here in the vast Dzanga Sangha rain forest, one of the best places to see gorillas, antelopes and elephants play.
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Brazil is launching a herculean effort to fumigate Rio for mosquitoes, and most of the Olympics events will be held in that one city, but it has a native population of 12.9 million sharing a varied geography that includes rain forest and beaches.
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Kolby, who founded the Honduras Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Center, which cares and researches rain forest creatures, told the Post that there were few laws in place meant to prevent a similar pathogen affecting another species or multiple species arising in the future.
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Current thinking is that the combination of global warming and about 20 percent to 25 percent additional clearcutting of rain forest would prevent the jungle from making enough weather to sustain itself, and the central and eastern Amazon would inevitably become savanna.
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TUESDAY PUZZLE — Easily the most useful advice I've ever gotten was when I visited a bird sanctuary in Africa, where the avian population soars above you, flying from tree to tree in a stunning and colorful replica of a misty rain forest.
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Andrius Pasukonis, a researcher associated with the University of Vienna and Harvard University, has been studying these frogs in the rain forest of French Guiana to learn how the males find the pools and what triggers this complicated act of tadpole transport.
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Near Mameyes, the town at the foot of the mountains that are home to El Yunque rain forest, I saw people washing their clothes by hand in the Espiritu Santo River, returning to a 19th-century reality that didn't depend on electrical appliances.
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The far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has fired one of the country's top environmental officials and wants to strip-mine the Amazonian rain forest Burle Marx so loved; last month, deforestation rates in the Amazon surged to the highest level ever recorded.
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Along the way you can watch a pride of lions frolic outdoors, escape to a rain forest with a two-story waterfall and free-flying birds, and go nose-to-nose with Luna, one of two polar bears and the zoo's unofficial mascot.
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Calçoene Journal CALÇOENE, Brazil — As the foreman for a cattle ranch in the far reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, Lailson Camelo da Silva was razing trees to convert rain forest into pasture when he stumbled across a bizarre arrangement of towering granite blocks.
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The governments of Brazil and Peru had recently agreed to build a trans-Amazonian highway, linking the Atlantic and the Pacific, but, aside from some muddy unfinished tracks, the Peruvians' efforts had been defeated by the "green hell" of the rain forest.
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Spanning elevations from sea level to 6,000 feet at the top of Mt. Gorongosa, the park is a great mixtape of "nearly every conceivable habitat," Dr. Naskrecki said: alpine forest, montane meadow, woodland savanna, grassland, scrub forest, a touch of true rain forest.
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Yes, there really is a music festival in the middle of a rain forest: the Rainforest World Music Festival (July 13 to 15), in Sarawak, Malaysia, in the heart of the Borneo jungle and in its 20th year, draws more than 20,000 attendees.
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Then, according to some (apocryphal) tellings of the emerald's history, the mule team dragging it through the rain forest was attacked by panthers—or some other animal—and the miners themselves had to carry the 752-pound emerald the rest of the way to civilization.
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Any clickbait list of the Most Controversial Films of All Time is likely to cite a 1980 Italian exploitation flick gloriously titled "Cannibal Holocaust," the tale of an American anthropologist who journeys into the Amazon rain forest in search of a missing documentary film crew.
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The dictatorship — which ruled the country from 1964-85, and for which Mr. Bolsonaro declares himself nostalgic despite the serious abuses it committed — radically transformed the rain forest by building thousands of kilometers of roads, encouraging mass migration, and promoting environmental destruction for agricultural purposes.
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Ms. Block Weissman said that she was "disappointed not to see the rain forest from the air," but when she learned about the tragedy days later, she wondered if there was anything she could do to judge the safety of a foreign air charter.
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BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday he would meet with other South American countries to set common policy for defending the Amazon rain forest, while his foreign minister told Reuters the nation should be seen as an environmental hero.
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The technology found a larger audience at the 2015 New Museum Triennial, where Daniel Steegman Mangrané used the Oculus Rift to transport viewers to a Brazilian rain forest, whose leaves rustled and grass waved as you acted like a fool in the white cube.
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Louis Sarno, an American suburban romantic who abandoned his doctoral studies to devote nearly half his life to recording and preserving the vanishing music of pygmies in a remote Central African rain forest, died on April 1 in Cliffside Park, N.J. He was 62.
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Today, these reefs have been carved by the wind and rain into spiky limestone cliffs known as karsts that stand stark against the Cambodian landscape, even as the lowland rain forest around them has been denuded by centuries of intensive rice cultivation and logging.
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Some of the $17.4 billion in financing provided by China to Ecuador since 2010 has gone to oil-for-loan deals, meaning they must be paid through the sale of oil or fuel — and nearly all of Ecuador's reserves are in the Amazon rain forest.
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In the Brazilian Amazon, China has committed significant funding, through development financing and direct investment by state-run companies, for the Brazilian government's efforts to construct a new commodities corridor through the Amazon basin, facilitating the expansion of industrial agribusiness into remote, pristine rain forest.
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And in St. Lucia, the Capella Marigot Bay Resort and Marina has the "Taxes at Bay" package, including four nights' accommodations, all meals and alcoholic beverages, a couples massage, a sunset cruise, a zip line rain forest excursion and all taxes and service charges.
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Further down the price scale, the Berlin-based print dealer Nicolaas Teeuwisse brought a rare early 19th-century lithograph of a Brazilian rain forest by Johann Moritz Rugendas, whose pioneering South American studies were praised by the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt.
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The justices turned away an appeal by New York-based lawyer Steven Donziger, who has spent more than to two decades trying to hold Chevron responsible for pollution in the Ecuadorean rain forest, of lower court rulings blocking enforcement in the United States of the 2011 judgment.
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Bolsonaro plans to cut down more of the Amazon rain forest, saying that Business Insider previously reported that indigenous communities are calling for the creation of a "sacred corridor of life and culture" that would span the Amazon from the Andes mountains to the Atlantic Ocean.
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The justices turned away an appeal by New York-based lawyer Steven Donziger, who has spent more than two decades trying to hold Chevron responsible for pollution in the Ecuadorean rain forest, of lower court rulings blocking enforcement in the United States of the 2011 judgment.
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Misha Vallejo of Ecuador explored life in a remote indigenous community, Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorean rain forest, where the Kichwa live as they have for hundreds of years, abiding by the belief that everything in nature — animals, plants, water, land, wind — is related and must be respected.
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SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Fueled by the surging price of gold, an epidemic of illegal gold mining in the Amazon is threatening indigenous territories and other protected lands in the world's largest tropical rain forest, according to a study published by a group of environmental organizations this week.
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Its creators partnered with the World Wildlife Fund (and a team of scientists) to depict how various ecosystems around the world — from the frozen Arctic to rain forest jungles to coastal seas — are imperiled by human activity, and what can be done to protect or restore them.
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Sitting in his office in a crisp button-down shirt, gravelly voiced and impassive, he reflected on how he went from nearly dying in the rain forest to becoming one of the leading intellectuals trying to carry forward the stuttering peace efforts in Myanmar, formerly Burma.
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Instead, some scholars now assert that the world's largest tropical rain forest was far less "Edenic" than previously imagined, and that the Amazon supported a population of as many as 10 million people before the epidemics and large-scale slaughter put into motion by European colonizers.
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Dr. Watling and her colleagues found that in contrast with the large-scale deforestation we see today — which threatens about 20 percent of the largest rain forest in the world — ancient indigenous people of the Amazon practiced something more akin to what we now call agroforestry.
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"The commercial fishing industry is strip mining oceans and destroying aquatic ecosystems in a way that makes the plundering of the Amazon rain forest seem like small potatoes," said Bruce Friedrich, who runs the Good Food Institute, an organization that advocates alternatives to meat and fish.
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"The commercial fishing industry is strip mining oceans and destroying aquatic ecosystems in a way that makes the plundering of the Amazon rain forest seem like small potatoes," said Bruce Friedrich, who runs the Good Food Institute, an organization that advocates alternatives to meat and fish.
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BUNDANOON, Australia — Even into her 80s, Mary E. White thrived on the expanse of Australian rain forest she had made her home, and she told friends of ambitious plans: She was going to write her autobiography, and there were two other books she wanted to finish.
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Hasbún's anti-expository prose is very effective, with fine details like the "dinner of tortillas and sauerkraut" they eat on their way into the rain forest, and the "poster of Lake Titicaca on the wall" at the Bolivian consulate in Hamburg before Monika fires her Colt Cobra.
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But it's the creative direction — its images of a living, dripping rain forest, testimonials of bronzed models using the products along the beaches of Copacabana, and its seamless blend of serif and sans serif fonts — that will move customers to fork up the $200 it costs for a kit.
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While investors hope Bolsonaro's free-market stance will reinvigorate Brazil's economy - the eight largest in the world - environmentalists and rights groups are worried he will roll back protections for the Amazon rain forest and loosen gun controls in a country that already has the world's highest number of murders.
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THE ENCOUNTER One of the hottest tickets at the Edinburgh International Festival last summer, Simon McBurney's solo show, which went on to a sold-out run at the Barbican in London, uses innovative aural technology to tell the tale of a photographer lost in the Amazon rain forest.
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Trying to protect one of the most biologically diverse places on earth from an army of illegal miners that has carved a toxic path through the rain forest, the Peruvian government is setting up outposts and stepping up raids along the Malinowski River in the Tambopata National Reserve.
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He was convinced that the remains of a forgotten civilization lay concealed in the rain forest, and it is generally assumed that he lost his life in pursuit of that belief; he and his eldest son, Jack (Tom Holland), were last seen venturing into the jungle in 1925.
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In 19923, soon after the British successfully elbowed away Dutch, French and Spanish rivals to claim the small patch of rain forest land at the northern edge of South America, 22-year-old Josias Booker left Britain to help manage a cotton plantation in what was then British Guiana.
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But in the Bella Coola Valley on Canada's west coast, where precipitous mountains plunge down to its namesake salmon river and where people have cleared land in the rain forest to grow lush gardens, the lines that for centuries have divided two apex predators — bears and humans — have blurred.
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While investors hope Bolsonaro's free-market stance will reinvigorate Brazil's economy - the eight largest in the world - environmentalists and rights groups are worried he will roll back protections for the Amazon rain forest and loosen gun controls in a country that already has the world's highest number of murders.
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At Aman Resorts, pampering goes far beyond high-thread-count sheets and elegant slippers: The luxury hotel group is known for offering treatments in the settings of spa fanatics' dreams — a private safari tent on the outskirts of an Indonesian rain forest, an onsen overlooking Japan's majestic Ago Bay.
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They funnel you through a rain forest canopy, ringing with the chirps, croaks and shrieks of birds, frogs and other animals, to enticing swimming holes and waterfalls with enough chill in the water to refresh from the near 90-degree heat but not enough to keep you out.
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Nevertheless, I found the Na'vi River Journey to be extremely disappointing: it seems small and claustrophobic, more like a ride through a cave with some fluorescent scenery (which it kind of is) than an epic exploratory journey through a deep, dark alien rain forest (which it most definitely is not).
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For hard-to-reach monuments, consider a more adventurous alternative route to avoid crowds — walking the steep hill to the Peak viewpoint in Hong Kong or hiking up the rain forest path to Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro instead of taking the crowded trams that lead to each.
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He also noted that some of his past stunts, like setting things on fire, might have contributed negatively to the environment, and with the Amazon rain forest burning and wildfires sweeping the US, trees are a great way to jump on the pro-environment bandwagon that is capturing Gen Z's attention.
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Being among old growth trees feels as sacred as any cathedral, so I revisited places in Washington State that I have been to — the Hoh Rain Forest, North Cascades National Park, Olympic National Park, and the upper Skagit Valley — and let them lead me to new parts I hadn't seen before.
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The new national parks established this week include our two signature projects: Pumalín, which lies south of Puerto Mont in the lakes district, comprises roughly one million acres of temperate rain forest, including some of the planet's last stands of towering Alerce trees, cousins of the coast redwoods of California.
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"No production on Broadway has ever thrown the doors of perception open as widely as 'The Encounter,'" Ben Brantley wrote of the 2016 show, courtesy of the London-based Complicite, which piped binaural sound through headsets to capture the journey of a Western explorer lost in the Amazon rain forest.
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CreditCreditDavid Blinken WESTERN ANDES CLOUD FOREST, Colombia — Just before sunrise on a crisp summer morning high in a rain forest in Colombia's Western Andes, the renowned ecologist Stuart Pimm gathered his research team over breakfast and made final plans for that morning's journey to install motion-sensor cameras to monitor hummingbirds.
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But the real draw this summer is Pandora —The World of Avatar, with rides such as Avatar Flight of Passage, where guests are made to feel as if they are flying on a banshee over the jungles of Pandora, and Na'vi River Journey, a trip through a fantastical bioluminescent rain forest.
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As a university professor in Southern California, I see my students grapple with their families' journeys from Latin America to the United States, writing essays and reported stories with beautiful scenes and strange twists: a starry night in a Guatemalan rain forest, a winning poker hand in a Los Angeles park.
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FRANZ JOSEF GLACIER, New Zealand — New Zealand is renowned for its wondrous scenery, and among the country's top tourist attractions are two glaciers that are both stunning and unusual because they snake down from the mountains to a temperate rain forest, making them easy for people to walk up to and view.
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Filtering by price ($2127 to $23) and size (large) produced a wide selection, from limited-edition prints like a poster of Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" by Robotic Ewe, recreated using the film script ($210), to acrylic paintings like "Amazonia," a bright abstract by Rashna Hackett, inspired by rain forest parrots ($490).
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The study, published on Thursday, focused on musical recordings and ethnographic records from 60 societies around the world including such diverse cultures as the Highland Scots in Scotland, Nyangatom nomads in Ethiopia, Mentawai rain forest dwellers in Indonesia, the Saramaka descendants of African slaves in Suriname and Aranda hunter-gatherers in Australia.
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Dr Davies and his compadres were in Colombia, in the Serranía de las Quinchas, an area of cloud- and rain-forest in the foothills of the Cordillera Oriental that was, until a peace deal signed in 227, part of the sphere of influence of the FARC, a group of rebels fighting to overthrow the government.
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He's not alone: Stranded alongside the British schoolboy are Con ("short for Constantia, but if you call me that, I'll kill you"), a strong-willed schoolgirl whose primness will be tested by the rain forest adventure to come; Lila, shy and even-keeled; and finally Max, Lila's little brother, a rascal prone to tantrums.
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In a signal to Democrats that he is willing to act aggressively on issues they consider important, the United States trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, is considering challenging Peru's decision to dismantle an agency created to stop the illegal harvesting of trees in the Amazon rain forest under the 2007 United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement.
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Beyond the totem poles long displayed in the park, visitors to Vancouver can now gain a fuller appreciation for the area's native people, known as First Nations, by staying in the city's only First Nations' lodge, touring an expanded collection of native art, dining on First Nations cuisine and exploring the urban rain forest with a native guide.
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In addition to providing information on pet adoption, rescue and training, it offers attractions like a puppy playground; a petting zoo; a luring course for dog exercise and play; an educational presentation on wolves (they may be big, but they're not bad) by Wolf Visions; and a Walk the Rain Forest experience with Lonely Grey Rescue, an avian nonprofit.
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Along with being one of the most diverse ecosystems in the country, the Hoh Rain Forest is also one of the quietest places in the U.S., according to the One Square Inch project, run by the acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, who has worked over the years to preserve the Hoh's quiet (for example, by requesting that airlines remap their flight patterns).
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In that time, Dylan, his girlfriend, Miriam Ormond, and I had marched a mile and a quarter up and down (and up and down) the hills of Dominica's Morne Trois Pitons National Park, starting on a well-cleared trail through rain forest brush — tree ferns, rubber trees, shaggy epiphytes — and finishing with moderate scrambles over damp rock and down slippery wooden stairs.
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