Rainforest-saving chocolate The Amazon rainforest -- the largest rainforest in the world -- is under threat of collapse.
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But the rainforest most often referred to during the 1980s and 1990s was tropical rainforest: the Amazon rainforest, Congo rainforest, big chunks of Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Central America.
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Deforestation disturbs the regions rainfall patterns, and without rain, a rainforest isn't a rainforest.
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The Great Bear Rainforest on British Columbia's West Coast comprises the largest intact temperate rainforest on earth.
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Weakened Amazon rainforest facing collapse within 50 years Is China's thirst for soybeans destroying the Amazon rainforest?
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To help reforest parts of the world, you can contribute to the Rainforest Trust and Rainforest Alliance.
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Should we care about the Amazon rainforest any more than, say, the Indonesian rainforest or the Siberian steppes?
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"It is very easy to change the microbiome, but not change it from a rainforest into a desert, more like change it from a South American rainforest into a southeast Asian rainforest," Gilbert says.
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At the 2014 Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit in Sydney, Australia, Papua New Guinea voiced support for the development of a rainforest recovery plan, which would aim to halve the rate of rainforest loss by 2020.
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" In the end, the differences were only a matter of capitalization: Cunningham's dance was "RainForest," and Tudor's score "Rainforest.
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Help reforestation and slow deforestation You can help reforest parts of the world through the Rainforest Trust and Rainforest Alliance.
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Perhaps the best known is Rainforest Alliance, whose founder, Daniel Katz, actually applied for a job at Rainforest Action Network.
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Instead of catchy, brief, pithy slogans, Rainforest Action Network included multi-page, multi-thousand-word stories of life in the rainforest.
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It was a review of a seminal book on rainforest conservation, Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest, and it is a truly bonkers document.
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If we're going to be pedantic, there's no region called "rainforest" to the west of the Twelve Apostles, and there isn't any rainforest there either.
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Essex and Albrecht Farms sought Rainforest Alliance certification not necessarily because they wanted to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods (which is the Rainforest Alliance's mission).
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The collaboration will support the UK-based rainforest charity Cool Earth, which works with rainforest communities to halt deforestation and stem its impact on climate change.
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Rainforest Connection now has more than 150 active devices used by local partners to protect areas of rainforest in five countries, including Peru, Cameroon and Brazil.
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Rainforest Connection, led by founder and CEO Topher White, creates devices called Guardians that listen to the rainforest and send real-time alerts to combat illegal logging.
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Canada's Great Bear Rainforest— the sole habitat of the white-furred Kermode bear, a subspecies of black bear — is part of the world's largest coastal temperate rainforest.
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The "God Friended Me" actress posted a screenshot on her Instagram story, which showed emails she received from the Rainforest Alliance, Amazon Watch, WWF, and Rainforest Trust.
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Make sure products you buy are "rainforest safe" Products featuring the "Rainforest Alliance Certified™" seal come from farms that passed audits and met standards for sustainability.
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Scientists warn that the rainforest could reach a tipping point, turning into something more like a savanna when it can no longer sustain itself as a rainforest.
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Brazil is handing over the Amazon rainforest to mining companies and big agriculture Brazil is handing over the Amazon rainforest to mining companies and big agriculture Brazil's Amazon rainforest, the massive swath of vegetation that accounts for 10 percent of the world's known species, is again under siege.
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"Investing in Indigenous communities to develop their own plans for managing natural resources is vital to quelling this chaos in the largest rainforest on Earth," said Alex Antram, conservation outreach manager at Rainforest Trust, a US-based nonprofit that has protected more than 23 million acres of rainforest worldwide.
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On Facebook, the top six trending fundraisers are currently related to the Amazon fires and tied to advocacy groups like Amazon Watch, Rainforest Alliance, and Rainforest Foundation Norway.
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The key questions the scientists are trying to answer here are how the rainforest influences the world around it and how the world, in turn, influences the rainforest.
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Dubai is building the world's first hotel with its own rainforest — here's what it's like inside - Architects in Dubai are building the world's first hotel with its own rainforest.
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Also, when shopping look for products bearing the Rainforest Alliance Certified seal—these products come from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms and meet strict criteria for environmental and social sustainability.
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If you want to help protect the Amazon rainforest from forest fires, you can donate to charities like the Amazon Conservation Association, the Amazon Conservation Team, and Rainforest Trust.
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Unlike Rainforest Alliance and Rainforest Action Network, Seventh Generation is a company that directly sells products, but it was heavily informed by the awareness campaigns of the activist groups.
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The activist organizations started with awareness; before you can make anyone care about the rainforest, you have to actually tell them about the rainforest, and why it's so cool.
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What it does: The Coalition for Rainforest Nations is unique in that it's an intergovernmental organization of over 50 rainforest nations around the world, from Ecuador to Bangladesh to Fiji.
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For more information on the Rainforest Fund, visit www.rainforestfund.org.
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Go deeper: The Amazon rainforest — Earth's lungs — is burning
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What's the cause -- How can a wet rainforest burn?
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"They have preserved a lot of the rainforest, and there's a lot of pride in Brazil about the fact that the Brazilian Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world," he added.
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Equinor later said it was important that the rainforest is protected and said it did not have activity in the rainforest but was limited to offshore oil exploration and a solar farm.
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Bolsonaro has been criticized for doing little to protect the Amazon rainforest, even rejecting $20 million in foreign aid to help fight fires in the rainforest during the G7 summit in France.
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A Brazilian court has dealt a major blow to those seeking to protect the Amazon rainforest, by reducing the amount of rainforest landowners have to restore — by an area the size of Arizona.
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Between 15 and 17 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been lost, and if the amount of cleared forest land reaches 25 percent, there won't be enough trees cycling moisture through the rainforest.
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The deforestation and destruction of their home, the Amazon rainforest.
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Ever wondered what the Amazon Rainforest looks like from space?
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It sounded a bit like the middle of a rainforest.
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About 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil.
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Walking barefoot in the rainforest is rough on your soles.
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The mighty El Yunque rainforest now seemed made of matchsticks.
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In 21, Brazilian Amazon lost 23.3372,624 square km of rainforest.
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We have rainforest where our trucks can smash through trees.
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It's the leading cause of species extinction and rainforest destruction.
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In 2100, Brazilian Amazon lost 21,23.3372 square km of rainforest.
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Why did the Rainforest Alliance develop the Farmer Training app ?
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In the background, there was a stereo playing rainforest sounds.
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The army ants were traveling through the Costa Rican rainforest.
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The fires in the Amazon rainforest have sparked global outrage.
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In August, Brazil's rainforest was burning the most since 2010.
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This is what virgin, untouched rainforest looked like in 2005.
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In 1999, a satellite image shows deforestation in Brazil's rainforest.
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A river winds its way through untouched rainforest in 2005.
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The rainforest is meant to absorb carbon, not produce it.
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Here are five things to know about the rainforest fires.
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It also has various hiking trails through the Atlantic rainforest.
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The Amazon rainforest is also an important driver of tourism.
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The Congo basin rainforest stretches across six central African countries.
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In return Brazil must protect, rather than destroy, the rainforest.
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Now imagine an orchid in its native tropical rainforest environment.
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Mr. Hollender initially wanted to call the company Rainforest Rubbers.
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But this rainforest is the least studied and most overlooked.
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Sting even started his own similar group, the Rainforest Foundation.
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The rainforest, amazingly, makes about half of its own rain.
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Amid this splendor, the trees in the rainforest stand out.
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Scientists fear the blazes could permanently transform the fragile rainforest.
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Along the way I proclaim that it sounds like we're at the Rainforest Café, which I will likely be mocked about for the rest of my life because, duh, we were in an actual rainforest.
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The Rainforest Action Network is protesting Pepsi's "link to rainforest destruction, climate pollution and human rights abuses" this week in San Francisco, the site of Super Bowl 50 between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers.
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The world's most popular fruit -- the banana -- comes from the rainforest.
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In 1978, 2 percent of the state's rainforest had been cleared.
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From the rainforest, the génocidaires regrouped and led raids into Rwanda.
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They may go from a sweltering rainforest to a frozen tundra.
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Cows chilling in what was part of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
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"You're surrounded by the sounds of the rainforest," Ruzo told Gizmodo.
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Aerial Images Capture Swathes of Amazon Rainforest Destroyed by Gold Mining.
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In Tasmania's rainforest I found what I was looking for – peace.
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I'd leave my troubled mind behind and just breathe the rainforest.
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Luxury villas built on wooden stilts stretch far into the rainforest.
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The fires are coming from people farming and logging the rainforest.
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Fires in the Amazon rainforest, during the summer months, aren't new.
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Environmental activists have been fighting to save the rainforest for years.
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According to Reuters, parts of the rainforest smell like a barbecue.
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He noted coffee farming has taken a toll on the rainforest.
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The future of the rainforest affects the future of the world!
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Patrick McCully is Climate & Energy Program Director at Rainforest Action Network.
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Public pressure for more action to protect the rainforest is mounting.
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The Rainforest Action Network's programs extend far beyond the Brazilian Amazon.
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How big is the Amazon rainforest and what does it matter?
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Lindsey Allen is the executive director of the Rainforest Action Network.
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The Amazon is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world.
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Wendy's also had to ensure that it was Rainforest Alliance certified.
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A rainforest showerhead is mounted over the combined tub and shower.
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But he has long supported scaling back protections for the rainforest.
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But he has long supported scaling back protections for the rainforest.
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Its west-side rainforest hosts plump spruce, cedar and Douglas firs.
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But the damage caused by mining isn't limited to rainforest destruction.
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Rainforest Connection says its phones are a faster and cheaper alternative.
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The event marked a new crisis in the world's largest rainforest.
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The fight to preserve the Amazon rainforest has taken many forms.
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In most cases, that includes an expert preservation of the rainforest.
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And we're taking a seat in an office that's part rainforest.
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Experts fear the Amazon rainforest has reached a catastrophic tipping point.
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The rainforest was magic, and saving it was fun, not grim.
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You might remember Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch, which featured Brazil nuts.
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Deep in the Amazon rainforest, fruits with amazing nutrition profiles flourish.
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The record number of fires raging across the Amazon rainforest in 2019 could be part of a doomsday "dieback" scenario in which the rainforest spews carbon into the atmosphere and speeds up climate change even more.
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In the late 1980s, Rainforest Action Network launched a campaign demanding that Burger King stop importing cheap beef from tropical rainforest areas, and the fast-food chain actually stopped — it canceled $35 million worth of beef contracts.
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Bolsonaro's hope is that U.S. investors and companies will participate in his apocalyptic vision for developing the Amazon rainforest, which involves unrestrained deforestation, industrial mining and agribusiness activities across the rainforest, including within currently-protected indigenous territories.
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"The destruction of the rainforest started to happen and I thought maybe this show should be a celebration of the beauty of the Amazon," Fast told Reuters backstage referring to the recent fires in the Amazon rainforest.
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"The destruction of the rainforest started to happen and I thought maybe this show should be a celebration of the beauty of the Amazon," Fast told Reuters backstage referring to the recent fires in the Amazon rainforest.
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This is an opinion piece by Brittany Wienke of the Rainforest Alliance.
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Some good ones: Rainforest Alliance, World Wildlife Fund, or the Nature Conservancy.
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Is Netflix luring us to the Brazilian rainforest to complete the mission?
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You can donate to a reputable charity tasked with protecting the rainforest.
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You can buy paper products that are endorsed by the Rainforest Alliance.
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Waking up to a warm rainforest animal napping on your chest: terrifying.
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The birds inhabit the northern part of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
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Brazil's president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, wants to weaken protection of the rainforest.
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This problem is expected to be especially acute in the Amazon rainforest.
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Another near a rainforest allows for the study of a diverse ecosystem.
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Gas flare from an oil field in the Congo Basin rainforest. 2.
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Cristina Cerda has spent her entire life in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest.
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But the locals won't be able to depend on the rainforest forever.
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Here in the rainforest, water is everywhere, collecting in puddles and ponds.
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Jessie Baker: Nearly everything we consume has some connection to a rainforest.
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One researcher estimated that humans start 99% of all Amazon rainforest fires.
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"Set It Up" star Zoey Deutch donated money to the Rainforest Alliance.
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As for deforestation, the rainforest has been getting chopped down for years.
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Seen here is an area of rainforest that was developed in 1999.
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The Amazon rainforest is burning, and it's sparking outrage around the world.
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What is happening in the Amazon rainforest right now is just devastating.
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In Brazil, the Amazon rainforest is now burning at a record rate.
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The Amazon rainforest saw thousands of wildfires this year because of deforestation.
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All 26 okapis at the base wandered back into the Ituri rainforest.
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I feel like I'm queuing for an Amazon rainforest-themed Disney ride.
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Cashews are being farmed in Indonesia at the expense of the rainforest.
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And for many of Brazil's surviving indigenous tribes, the rainforest is home.
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The campaign also includes discounts on activities, like diving and rainforest hikes.
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The Guajarara are an indigenous tribe that works to protect the rainforest.
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Here in the Napo Province in Ecuador, the rainforest is their home.
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So losing the rainforest has a huge potential to warm the planet.
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Children's Books THE LOST RAINFOREST: MEZ'S MAGIC By Eliot Schrefer 368 pp.
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The INSIDER Summary: The Amazon is the world's largest remaining tropical rainforest.
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Go deeper: Earth's lungs are burning In photos: The Amazon rainforest fires
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Times Insider A technologist works in rainforest canopies to track illegal logging.
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An entire cosmos has been rent in the largest rainforest on earth.
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In the desert, scarcity is more of a problem than the rainforest.
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Congo's rainforest is damp enough to stop blazes from tearing through it.
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A baby tarantula made for a nice meal for this rainforest frog.
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The Amazon rainforest has faced encroachment and deforestation for a long time.
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Fires don't typically occur in the Amazon, the rainforest is too wet.
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A project with DemocraciaAbierta, funded by the Rainforest Journalism Fund, Pulitzer Center.
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They found one among the animals and plants of the Mexican rainforest.
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Java, which is now mostly rainforest, used to be covered in woodlands.
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Looking back, the entire "save the rainforest" thing feels frivolous, ineffective, naive.
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"Nobody took you seriously," says Daniel Katz, the founder of Rainforest Alliance.
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The transição is already hotter and drier than most of the rainforest.
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The hostel seems to be deep in the rainforest, what's that like?
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In a rainforest amidst lush nature, fragile porcelain animals can be found.
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The Amazon rainforest covers land in nine countries, but international attention has been drawn to the Brazilian rainforest since last week, when satellite data from Brazil's space agency showed that fires are burning there at a record rate.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous women from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest have called on the country's president to end oil and mining projects on their ancestral lands, as the nation pushes to open up more of its rainforest to drillers.
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If the forest doesn't grow back, as happens when Amazon rainforest is converted to cropland, or worse, if the rainforest can't sustain itself, the atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is just as long-lasting as when we burn fossil fuels.
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Last month, Brazil's space research agency, INPE, revealed that the highest number of forest fires were tearing through the Amazon rainforest since 2010, sparking international outcry demanding that the country do more to protect the world's largest tropical rainforest.
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You can look for Rainforest Alliance certified products, like coffee, bananas, and chocolate.
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Environmentalists grouse that its research enables farmers to push into the Amazon rainforest.
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They've bounced from leaf to leaf, tracking dew down to the rainforest floor.
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Fire in the Amazon rainforest, near Abunã, Rondonia state, Brazil, on Aug. 24.
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TARTE Water Foundation Broad Spectrum SPF 15 Rainforest of the Sea™ Collection.
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Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning and the fire can be seen from space.
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Messok Dja is a dense rainforest in the northwestern Republic of the Congo.
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Thousands of wildfires are also decimating the Brazilian Amazon, the world's largest rainforest.
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Maria felled the rainforest and knocked out the electricity, telecoms and water supplies.
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Huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest were cut down to create these ranches.
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Inside, I am immediately struck by the size and scale of the rainforest.
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"There are times when [the rainforest] is almost too loud," he tells me.
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An irrigation system is not needed; being in a rainforest has its advantages.
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Eating beef is bad for the climate, as is clearing the rainforest. 20.
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"It's different than deforesting a tropical rainforest for example," Springer tells The Verge.
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The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest and covers 2.1 million square miles.
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"Umbrella Academy" star Robert Sheehan made a monthly donation to the Rainforest Alliance.
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Many people, like Frere Henri Burin Des Roziers, work to protect the rainforest.
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According to many of the early models, there shouldn't be a rainforest there.
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One of every 10 species in the world lives in the Amazon rainforest.
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"We're thinking about hitting Planet Hollywood and then the Rainforest Café," McBride said.
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The rainforest soaks up 600 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year.
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Soon this rainforest may be as silent as the rest of the universe.
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In September Gabon received $150 million in international funds to preserve its rainforest.
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Additionally, being located in the rainforest means plenty of water for the crops.
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The rain in the rainforest is not an accident of geography or meteorology.
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He has long sneered at concerns about the Amazon rainforest from other countries.
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The all-glass shower had a rainforest showerhead and offered excellent water pressure.
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But this viewpoint overlooks the deeper, and deeply human, past of the rainforest.
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Go deeper: Brazil has lost 1,330 square miles of Amazon rainforest under Bolsonaro
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The Rainforest Foundation is one organization that works to support these local communities.
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Blogger Nathalie Muñoz posted a series of photos about the Amazon rainforest fires.
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The Rainforest Trust allows you to restrict your donations to a specific project.
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You also can buy products that feature the "Rainforest Alliance Certified™" seal.
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A tract of the Amazon rainforest in Boca do Acre, Brazil, Aug. 24.
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Still strapped in her seat, she fell two miles into the Peruvian rainforest.
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A good start is looking for Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance and organic certifications.
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When this was commissioned for Cunningham's "RainForest," Warhol first showed his Mylar balloons.
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Go deeper: Brazil has lost 1,330 square miles of Amazon rainforest under Bolsonaro
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The other intriguing factor is that the cave opens out over the rainforest.
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This fern is native to the rainforest, where it grows between tree branches.
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You've replicated a tropical rainforest and you are now an orchid growing expert.
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That will cause the rainforest to dry out and degrade into a savanna.
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This year, we watched terrifying scenes of devastating fires across the Amazon rainforest.
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Instead, she worked for groups such as Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network and MoveOn.
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Some of these images were made as part of the Rainforest Defenders series.
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"When you read 1,500 words about the rainforest, you get converted," says Gunther.
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They set up a widespread boycott of "rainforest beef"; worked with Earth First!
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The head of Amazon Frontlines Mitch Anderson said the win "shows once again that the fate of the Amazon rainforest, and consequently our climate, hinges on whether or not indigenous people can continue to protect their rainforest territories and cultures".
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"Protecting the world's remaining rainforests is now acknowledged as one of the most effective ways to mitigate climate change, yet every day nearly 70,000 acres of rainforest are destroyed forever," said Chris Redston of Rainforest Trust UK in a statement.
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Shin Yang, one of the "big six" logging companies on the Malaysian part of Borneo, has systematically cleared pristine rainforest from the Southeast Asian island, said a statement by charities, including Global Witness and Rainforest Action Network, released on Thursday.
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And imagine eating at Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Cafe with robochimps swinging and flipping overhead.
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But we have far fewer observations of butterfly species in, say, the Amazon rainforest.
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But before leaving Brazil, Pence was taking a helicopter tour over the Amazon rainforest.
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None of those four are located in states with jurisdiction over the Amazon rainforest.
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A rainforest road trip for a day costs $142 in Juniper, the converted vehicle.
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About 60 percent the land that was once rainforest is now occupied by cattle.
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The Rainforest Foundation on Tuesday submitted a letter alleging "severe deficiencies" in WWF's investigation.
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In the Amazon rainforest, one soccer field-size area is clear-cut every minute.
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Fire burns in Amazon rainforest in the northern Brazilian state of Rondonia on Friday.
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In his presidency, he advocates economic development and the development of the amazon rainforest.
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The Amazon - 60% of which is in Brazil - is the world's largest tropical rainforest.
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Thousands of wildfires are also decimating the neighboring Brazilian Amazon, the world's largest rainforest.
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Before joining Tor, Appelbaum worked on security for Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network.
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But to make way for plantations, huge swathes of tropical rainforest have been razed.
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Environmentalists, outraged at his plan to open up Brazil's rainforest to mining, had objected.
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Below is a recording from an acacia plantation in the rainforest of Berau Indonesia.
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The Amazon rainforest and Indonesia's peat swamps aren't the only places suffering from deforestation.
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"There are amazing cliffs, gullies and rainforest through the otherwise open woodland," he explained.
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The difference is that he has lived in the Amazon rainforest his entire life.
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The two-level rainforest cottage also has a flat-screen TV and Wi-Fi.
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Environmentalists say the surge in fires in the Brazilian rainforest is due to deforestation.
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The Brazilian government has been criticized for prioritizing agricultural and mining over the rainforest.
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In July, the rainforest lost an area more than twice the area of Tokyo.
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Delivering medical supplies into the heart of the Amazonian rainforest is no easy feat.
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Workers here repair a road to El Yunque Rainforest a year after the storm.
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But the Rainforest Action Network is more freaked out by what's inside their bags.
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Nearly 22003% of Brazilian livestock are raised in fields that used to be rainforest.
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While the Amazon rainforest burned, Amazon dot com inadvertently capitalized on related search traffic.
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Smoke rises from a cigarette in a quiet wooden hut in the Amazon rainforest.
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How does brushing aside the entreaties of outside powers rescue the Amazon rainforest precisely?
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France's Macron accused Bolsonaro of failing to uphold earlier commitments to preserve the rainforest.
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In summer, they blossom into this almost rainforest-type jungle of flora and fauna.
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This will be Cunningham's second appearance in "Bloodlines"; the first season included "RainForest" (1968).
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Trudeau had long opposed the project, which would run through the Great Bear Rainforest.
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Creating formal protected areas was a better way of protecting the rainforest, Davalos said.
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In South America, the rainforest is being burned down for the sake of cheeseburgers.
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It reminds me more of a tiny Rainforest café instead of a coffee shop.
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"That alone will not save the rainforest ... but every little bit helps," O'Hare said.
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The environment at Ngandong changed, and the open woodland was replaced by a rainforest.
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WWF is closely entwined with forest rangers at Salonga, Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve.
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Through BlackRock, he is also investing in companies that are destroying the Amazon rainforest.
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It's the main reason for rainforest destruction and the poisoning of our water systems.
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This is the Brazil nut tree, Bertholletia excelsa, an icon of the Amazon rainforest.
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Araujo's speech is all the more striking as the Amazon rainforest continues to burn.
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The chain restaurant Rainforest Cafe launched; the clothing store Banana Republic was jungle-themed.
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There weren't organizations speaking specifically about the rainforest, so these activists founded their own.
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The Rainforest Action Network was founded in 1985 by Randy Hayes and Mike Roselle.
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His administration has scoffed at the idea of the rainforest as a global asset.
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A humpback whale feeding off the coast of Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada.
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Most of the water parks in Wisconsin Dells had a wilderness or rainforest theme.
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Voices of creatures in some parts of the Costa Rican rainforest have gotten louder.
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Get out of your comfort zone in the Bolivian Amazon rainforest at Rurrenabaque, Bolivia.
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Read More: Striking photos show the devastation wreaked by record-breaking fires in the Amazon rainforest"We have to keep in mind: Most Brazilians live a long way from the Amazon rainforest, and they are as appalled as everyone else," he said.
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As long as this idea of the rainforest in kept alive, then the decline of the actual rainforest and the human and animal life within it can easily become an abstracted image, an exotic and remote as it was for Alfred Russell Wallace.
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"If you create a street [all the way to the research site], people are going to cut down the rainforest," warned Stefan Wolff, a meteorologist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry who is studying the exchange of gases between rainforest and atmosphere.
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The Amazon rainforest isn't one big ecosystem as much as it is dozens of unique biomes stitched together, he explained, each with its distinct library of life, but working together to spread moisture and nutrients that sustain the rainforest as a whole.
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Finding new species, while exciting, is hardly a novel experience in the world's largest rainforest.
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Changing land use to expand avocado production in Mexico, for example, is displacing the rainforest.
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Congo is Africa's second-largest country and is blanketed by the world's second-biggest rainforest.
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The film industry has a long, storied, and particularly clichéd relationship with the Amazon rainforest.
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"The rainforest is doing us a huge service for free," she says in the clip.
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The Irish Independent said Varadkar was very concerned at the record levels of rainforest destruction.
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Irish Independent reported that Varadkar was very concerned at the record levels of rainforest destruction.
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Keith Haring's "The Last Rainforest" is estimated to sell for £2 million to £3 million.
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It's a bittersweet, but joyful goodbye to these high honors students of the Bornean rainforest.
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Photographer Kirsten Luce and I started documenting the wildlife tourism industry in the Amazon rainforest.
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So… it's like the Rainforest Cafe, except you're wearing a fucking phone on your face.
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There have been reports of wide-scale destruction of the rainforest, but Pardieu disputes this.
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Through its unconventional choreography, RainForest conveys an idea of freewheeling anarchy in the natural world.
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An estimated 148,000 acres of rainforest have been lost to illegal gold mining in Peru.
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During his second ayahuasca experience, Sarlo's visions took him far away from the humid rainforest.
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The world's largest rainforest is considered one of the best natural defenses against global warming.
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This required traps placed in the canopy and spotlighting -- both difficult in the dense rainforest.
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What's a final word that you want to impart about the need for rainforest protections?
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They hunt, live off rainforest fruit and plant vegetables such as sweet potatoes in gardens.
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Clearing the rainforest for cattle farming is a major cause of the fires and deforestation.
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Meanwhile, smoke is filling the rainforest, which is frequently called "the lungs of the world."
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The US-China trade war is helping drive the massive fires burning the Amazon rainforest
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Ultimately, the effects from rainforest loss will be far scarier than a Halloween without candy.
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You can also reduce your paper/wood consumption or ensure you buy rainforest safe products.
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Fires in the Amazon rainforest continue despite a ban from the Brazilian government on burning.
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Over half of Brazil's 88,816 fires from January through August took place in the rainforest.
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This area includes areas of Brazil's rainforest and one of Brazil's best-preserved coastal towns.
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" Defending his invitation, Drew adds, "We were building for families with WE in the rainforest.
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Glide down the Amazon River to Lake Sandoval, a jungle lake nestled in Peru's rainforest.
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Some of the blazes were deliberately set by farmers to clear the rainforest for pastureland.
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Today, nearly 2200% of Brazilian livestock are raised in fields that used to be rainforest.
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This massive rainforest helps control the planet's climate by absorbing greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
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Think beaches of sugary soft sand, and rainforest views from 196 oversized rooms and suites.
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Thousands of Westerners flock to the rainforest every year to drink the powerful ayahuasca psychedelic.
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Fires burning across the Amazon rainforest have renewed the debate about solutions to climate change.
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Some scientists anticipate the rainforest will change into a seasonal forest rather than a savanna.
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He campaigned on exploiting the rainforest and won the endorsement of the country's agricultural lobby.
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Bolsonaro has also worked to strip protections for indigenous peoples that live in the rainforest.
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Its followers have been encouraged to wear robes and colonize remote lands in Peru's rainforest.
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From there, we're updating you on the status of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest.
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It contains six houses, each surrounded by rainforest, and has capacity for just 20 guests.
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This woman, head of a national association, was fined for burning 350 acres of rainforest.
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The rainforest stores a huge volume of carbon dioxide, which is unleashed through the fires.
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By comparison, the massive Amazon Rainforest fires in 2019 burned an estimated 17.5 million acres.
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A single Cheesecake Factory, Rainforest Cafe or Applebee's could sell 500 Asian salads a week.
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MacRitchie Reservoir Park's hiking trails wind through a tropical rainforest, with macaque monkeys scampering about.
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They are descendants of people who lived in the rainforest for centuries without destroying it.
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The world's biggest rainforest would then begin an irreversible collapse, eventually turning into dry savanna.
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Many have to travel through the Darien Gap: dense, dangerous rainforest between Colombia and Panama.
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It helped that few at the time knew very much at all about the rainforest.
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Not all of the companies that sprang from the rainforest-saving well were activist groups.
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The rainforest was simply cool, and people liked toucans, monkeys, macaws, tree frogs, and bromeliads.
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From the soil to the sky, every layer of the Amazon rainforest pulsates with life.
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Accounting for relative size, the Cerrado is disappearing nearly four times faster than the rainforest.
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Brazil led the world in rainforest destruction in 2018, according to independent monitoring group Global Forest Watch.. The World Wildlife Fund estimates that more than a quarter of the Amazon rainforest will be without trees by 2030 if the current rate of deforestation continues.
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In a 23 report, Founders Pledge highlighted two groups: the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, an intergovernmental organization of rainforest nations that played a huge role in reducing emissions from deforestation, and the Clean Air Task Force, a US-based nonprofit that's helped reduce air pollution.
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Meanwhile, the lava has also blanketed over 40 square miles of rainforest, communities, and historical sites.
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Meanwhile, your country is well-known for its natural beauty and resources, particularly the Amazon rainforest.
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It's usually found in rainforest, but has been seen near buildings, according to James Cook University.
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White's startup places sensors high in the canopy of the Amazon Rainforest in Pará, northern Brazil.
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"It's hard to teach someone about a rainforest that grew up in a desert," he said.
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Combined with the lush, green rainforest surroundings, these create a natural spa with endless comfort. 295.
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Increasingly arid climes would likely mean that drier grassland savannah would replace rainforest, the research concluded.
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But deforestation isn't an organized shrinking of the rainforest, paring it down from the edges in.
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WWF has worked in Salonga, Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve, since 2005, according to its website.
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But when the rainforest is burning, it sends a lot of carbon dioxide into the air.
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São Paulo was shrouded in smog caused by fires raging in the Amazon rainforest 163,700km away.
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The habitation of the rainforest scene was comprised of performers that are actual descendants of aborigines.
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A: I love the planet, I love nature, and I love being out in the rainforest.
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After seven years of planning and construction, Amazon's mini rainforest spheres are finally opening in Seattle.
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Back in 2011, nature photographer David Slater left some camera equipment out in the Indonesian rainforest.
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And so Fordlandia, a midwestern factory town in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, was founded.
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The Amazon, about 60 percent of which lies in Brazil, is the world's largest tropical rainforest.
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The Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve is comprised of over two-million hectares of rainforest and wetlands.
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Low humidity caused by the loss of rainforest has already triggered record droughts in Brazil's northeast.
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"The Last Rainforest" (1989), one of the artist's last paintings, sold for £19333 million (~$5.6 million).
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Rainforest QA, an on-demand software QA service, announced a $25 million Series B investment today.
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From a customer perspective, they connect their software to the Rainforest QA platform via an API.
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She waded through water in the swampy rainforest with ten men from Nepal, India, and Cuba.
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Deep inside Brazil's Amazon rainforest sit the dilapidated remains of what looks like an industrial town.
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Like dinosaur bones or the rainforest, it's important to preserve the work of these lionized musicians.
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Many ranchers and farmers have viewed this stance as a green light to burn more rainforest.
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He has come out against Northern Gateway, mainly because its route passes through a temperate rainforest.
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To celebrate the launch of two enormous collections, Double Duty Beauty and Rainforest Of The Sea.
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Yet it's slightly smaller than its sister species that can be found in the Amazon Rainforest.
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Colombia is home to a swathe of rainforest roughly the size of Germany and England combined.
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Firefighters are still trying to stop the fires that have ravaged much of the Amazon Rainforest.
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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has encouraged the development of the rainforest for mining, logging, and farming.
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Read more: Striking photos show the devastation wreaked by record-breaking fires in the Amazon rainforest
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Respiratory health issues have increased in parts of Brazil following widespread fires in the Amazon rainforest.
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"To All the Boys I've Loved Before" star Lana Condor gave money to the Rainforest Alliance.
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Since taking power, Bolsonaro has also hampered what government agencies can do to protect the rainforest.
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The burning and deforestation of the Amazon rainforest will have lasting effects on the global climate.
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This photo was taken on the island of Kauai, which is known for its tropical rainforest.
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BRAZIL AMAZON RAINFOREST DEFORESTATION TOTALS 9,762 SQUARE KM FOR 12 MONTHS THROUGH JULY -SPACE RESEARCH AGENCY
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This photo was taken on the island of Kauai, which is known for its tropical rainforest.
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Groups like the Rainforest Action Network have been pressuring banks for months to reduce coal lending.
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Her new LP EARS is colorful, and humid, each song bubbling and chirping like a rainforest.
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ICYMI: The Indonesian government retracted a threat to deport Leonardo DiCaprio over tweets about the rainforest.
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The gator releases a truly bowel-clenching growl that almost sounds like a Rainforest Cafe animatronic.
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That means large chunks of Brazil's rainforest can't legally be used to farm or raise livestock.
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In November, Rainforest Adventures opened a new zip line — the Flying Dutchman — in Emilio Wilson Park.
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"We've had over 1,500 guests participate in these activities," said Rocio Guzman, Rainforest Expeditions' marketing manager.
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But the Amazon rainforest, which remains drenched for much of the year, does not burn naturally.
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Once the rainforest loses a certain amount of area, this orchestra will fall out of tune.
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In addition to deforestation from industry, the Amazon rainforest is under pressure from rising average temperatures.
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Why it's been so lucrative to destroy the Amazon rainforest These women survived abuse and assault.
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Bathrooms are large with walk-in rainforest showers and heated towel racks, while apartments have bathtubs.
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A burned area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil, on Aug. 25.
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Roughly half the size of the United States, it is the largest rainforest on the planet.
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Budget cuts and federal interference are making it even easier for people to exploit the rainforest.
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The Rainforest Alliance says 100% of your donation will help stop deforestation in Brazil right now.
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Citizens around the world have been horrified to learn about fires burning in the Amazon rainforest.
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A section of the Amazon rainforest is decimated by wildfires near Porto Velho, Brazil, Aug. 24.
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An aerial view of burnt areas of the Amazon rainforest, near Porto Velho, Brazil, Aug. 24.
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But the flaying of the rainforest for oil and palm oil cannot go on as planned.
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It is the world's second-largest rainforest; and like its biggest, the Amazon, it is shrinking.
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He was handed 4,000 acres of rainforest, part of a government plan to develop the Amazon.
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According to Brazilian satellites, more than a soccer field worth of rainforest is cleared every minute.
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In Ecuador, I loved the tropical rainforest and upper Amazon, where I saw endangered river otters.
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In the Amazon rainforest areas of Brazil, many Catholics go without attending daily Mass for months.
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But activists argued that the move could damage the world's largest and most diverse tropical rainforest.
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The Congo basin rainforest is the second biggest tropical forest in the world, after the Amazon.
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The Amazon rainforest does not burn naturally, so fires are a direct result of human activity.
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The Amazon rainforest appeared in headlines this summer as thousands of fires raged month after month.
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But that didn't last: In 2019, tens of thousands of man-made fires ravaged the rainforest.
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Cattle graze after a fire in the Amazon rainforest near Novo Progresso, Brazil, on Aug. 2257.
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It's ambitious, especially in the face of setbacks, like the accelerating deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
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The Congo Basin, stretching across six countries, is home to the second-largest rainforest on Earth.
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From about 21990 through 19983, a mass movement centered around saving the rainforest dominated popular culture.
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In a forest on land, and even in a rainforest, there's more oxygen in the soil.
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Scientists say there are seldom natural fires in the rainforest; almost all are ignited by humans.
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The aptly named "Spheres" building consists of three dome structures, with a miniature rainforest planted inside.
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Rainforest farmers are required by law to preserve 80 percent of native vegetation on their plots.
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Animal agriculture is responsible for nearly 90 percent of Amazon rainforest destruction; we lose more than 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest each day to grow livestock feed, and are quickly running out of space to raise all the animals we want to raise and kill for food.
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Read more: Twitter users have hopped on a viral hashtag to ask Jeff Bezos of Amazon (the company) to help save the Amazon (the burning rainforest)"I told him if the United States can help with the Amazon Rainforest fires, we stand ready to assist!" he tweeted.
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Fires have surged in the Amazon this year -- the world's largest rainforest is burning at its highest rate since 2013 -- and Brazil's National Institute for Space Research says more than one-and-a-half soccer fields of Amazon rainforest are being destroyed every minute of every day.
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Ardent voices were speaking up for the giant panda and the rainforest; not many spoke for corals.
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Trauma, animal and snake attacks, infections and childbirth all bring down life expectancy in the Amazon rainforest.
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He and Styler co-founded an environmental organization, the Rainforest Fund, to protect the world&aposs rainforests.
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Even weighed against the astounding biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest in general, Yasuní National Park is noteworthy.
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The forest -- about the size of West Virginia -- and region form the world's largest intact temperate rainforest.
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Brazil's Amazon rainforest experienced an 84% surge in wildfires this year, according to the country's space agency.
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Beyond a certain threshold, the world's largest rainforest will dry out into a savanna—with dire consequences.
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WWF has worked at the park, Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve, since 2005, according to its website.
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A number of viral photographs claiming to depict the fire devastating Brazil's Amazon rainforest have been misattributed.
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Like HIV, Zika originated in central Africa, very rarely infecting human beings, and circulating among rainforest primates.
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I visited the spa, where I lounged in heated chairs and enjoyed their temperature-controlled "rainforest" showers.
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The land was once part of the Atlantic Rainforest, but was cut down and redeveloped by industrialists.
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Castelobruxo can be found deep within the rainforest in Brazil and looks a little like a temple.
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At least 94 percent of subjects remembered whether a desk was made of rainforest or sustainable wood.
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Set in a rainforest in Malaysian Borneo, the three-day event is a celebration of world music.
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This realization spurred Fundaeco to shift its focus on not just rainforest conservation but also women's health.
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Swollen by rainforest tributaries, it defines the Myanmar-Laos border and most of the Laos-Thailand border.
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It's known for its Four Mile Beach and is a short drive away from the Daintree Rainforest.
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VICE Impact got the chance to talk with Jessie Baker of the Rainforest Alliance's Landscapes & Livelihoods team.
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Though the fires aren't as bad as they were in August, the Amazon Rainforest is still burning.
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The Amazon rainforest is on fire, and people are asking Jeff Bezos to do something about it.
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The Amazon rainforest has been seized by massive fires as Brazilian farmers cut down trees for farmland.
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A judge has already temporarily blocked logging on 42,500 acres of temperate rainforest in Tongass National Forest.
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Instead, I rent a typical Costa Rican home, a small two-bedroom house in a rainforest town.
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Yuan took this photo after doing some filming work in the rainforest of Xishuangbanna in southwest China.
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The tropical rainforest surrounding the innovative house features trees as high as 40 metres (131 feet) tall.
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Earth, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, German NGO Urgewald, the Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace International.
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Then we slip on the headset and our whole field of vision is consumed by the rainforest.
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Growing Brazil's economy and protecting the Amazon can be at oddsBrazil controls 60% of the Amazon rainforest.
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If you want a more festive environment for your turkey day, Rainforest Café hosts special Thanksgiving meals.
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"The dams have violated social rights and environmental safeguards producing disastrous results for the rainforest," he said.
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The rainforest generates around half of its own rain by recycling moisture through trees and other vegetation.
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Recent reports have shown that the Amazon rainforest is losing a soccer field-size area every minute.
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G7 countries promised €20 million in aid for the rainforest, which Bolsonaro said Tuesday he would reject.
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Prosecutors in Brazil are now investigating a drop-off in enforcement of environmental protections for the rainforest.
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Paul Salaman, the chief executive of Rainforest Trust, is familiar with the objections to species-naming auctions.
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Brian Armstrong from Coinbase, we had Instacart, we had Lever, and Clever, and Rainforest and Boosted Boards.
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Burle Marx's designs highlight the wealth of the rainforest while creating places for people to be together.
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Bethenny Frankel is the latest celebrity promising to help with the raging fires in the Amazon rainforest.
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The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest and serves as a vital carbon store for the globe.
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Another photo making the rounds on social media claims to also show the Amazon rainforest on fire.
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The Amazon rainforest -- the lungs of our planet which produces 20% of our oxygen -- is on fire.
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The Amazon rainforest covers land in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
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Now, they are now fighting to save the Amazon rainforest with the almighty power of self-promotion.
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Bolsonaro originally tweeted Saturday that he was mobilizing more than 43,000 troops to fight the rainforest fires.
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By August, the Amazon rainforest had suffered more than 70,000 wildfires since the start of the year.
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Cattle farming in Brazil is also a culprit behind deforestation and, consequently, fires in the Amazon rainforest.
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Other countries also saw record-breaking heat and cold, and raging fires severely damaged the Amazon rainforest.
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Adriana Ayales is a rainforest herbalist who grew up in Costa Rica and runs Anima Mundi Apothecary.
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"I am looking for something like 'shade grown,' 'rainforest certified,' in addition to 'Fair Trade,'" he said.
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Most of the fires appear to have been lit on purpose in savannah, outside of the rainforest.
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And in Brazil, some 121,000 fires have burned since January — more than half in the Amazon rainforest.
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Each strike of his mallet cuts through the relative quiet of the world's second-largest tropical rainforest.
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The rainforest stores and takes in a vast quantity of carbon, making a valuable global environmental asset.
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Employees of the Rainforest Alliance audit the plantations registered with the NGO every year to ensure compliance.
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A section of the Amazon rainforest is left decimated by wildfires near Porto Velho, Brazil, Aug. 25.
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But the standout feature was my natural stone bathroom with rainforest shower and stand-alone soaking tub.
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It was unsurprising that Mr. Petronio began "Bloodlines" in 2015 with a Cunningham piece ("Rainforest,") from 1968.
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"ANCHO-RITE" will be opening the concept "400 days in the rainforest" — a series of art concepts.
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This tipping point could lead the Amazon to devolve into a barren, savannah-like landscape that not only fails to produce oxygen but could cause the release of the 140 billion tons of carbon stored in the rainforest into the atmosphere, the Rainforest Trust said in a 2017 post.
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As wildfires continue to engulf the Amazon rainforest at a record pace, Bolsonaro, who has called for the development of the Amazon region in his country, has come under immense scrutiny, with advocates saying fires have increased in areas of the world's largest rainforest where deforestation has also risen.
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