The Brazilian Space Agency and Britain’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are planning to boldly go into new realms of space-based rainforest protection.
… | 30th July 2008 News Space Rainforest Brazil UK Space Deforestation Science And Technology Space Main Image.jpg The Brazilian Space Agency and Britain’s … Amazonia-I, scheduled to blast off from Brazil in 2011. Amazonia-I will take pictures …
Peter Bunyard on the battle against malaria, a fallen hero of the Colombian medical establishment and the mysterious fate of thousands of unique primates.
… from one end to the other, and even into Brazil – that is if you can tolerate the heat … overseas, some of whom arrive by river from Brazil or Peru. One attraction is the … its sprawling 300-mile-wide mouth in Eastern Brazil. Few, if any, of the Decameron Hotel …
From monocultures to deforestation, a cup of coffee can leave a bitter taste. But as Valentina Jovanovski discovered, ethically produced coffee can benefit some of the world’s poorest people and the planet to boot
… Organic Deforestation Monoculture Uganda Brazil Green Living Food And Farming … amounts of fertiliser and pesticides. In Brazil, where an estimated 5.4 million … But according to UNDP, over 70 per cent of Brazilian coffee farms – which between them …
Is orange juice as healthy and natural as it claims to be? Can it ever be 'eco'? Pat Thomas reports
… labour in the orange picking industry in Brazil and Mexico. In fact, Brazil is the largest orange producing country … and all of Tropicana's juice here, comes from Brazil. Deforestation in the Amazon, to …
MP's report leaves environmentalists facing a dilemma, should they allow GM crop trials or not?
… Food And Farming Science And Technology Gm Brazil Food Politics And Economics soil.jpg … for increasing agricultural production in Brazil in particular was strong - with a … MPs expressed concern that not only could Brazil's infrastructure not cope with a major …
In his final State of the Union address, George Bush announced his support for the adoption of biofuels on a massive scale. But is the plan such a good idea? By Pat Thomas
… sustainability at a national or global level. Brazil is a good example of this illusion. … is good about the biofuel revolution. Yet Brazil is a troubled country. Its sugar-cane … into bioethanol and, while 40 per cent of Brazil’s cars may be running on this fuel (the …
Bruce Parry on tree-bark trips, deforestation and lessons learnt from tribal living
… most shocking thing you saw? Paraì state, in Brazil. We flew for hours and hours over what … and cattle are making people rich. I love Brazil and think it has exemplary laws, but …
New research has revealed that a lack of finance and political commitment lie at the heart of the slow take-up of renewables, as a UK think tank calls for cash for low-carbon technology to be ringfenced
… Network US Germany India Nigeria Australia Brazil China Copenhagen Carbon Renewables … UK, US, Germany, India, Nigeria, Australia, Brazil and China. GCN interviewed 100 experts …
Plant fuels can never meet our current and growing energy needs and, as Robin Maynard reports, adopting a ‘carbohydrate economy’ may prove disastrous for our farmers, our food supply and our future
… diesel’. On the other side of the world, Brazil, the world’s largest sugar producer and … and rainforest to biofuel production. Half of Brazil’s sugar cane harvest goes to make … cause of rainforest destruction in the Brazilian Amazon, is being diverted to fuel …
Nicola Peel talks about her new DVD, Blood of the Amazon, telling of her travels through the rainforest and her investigations on the effects of reckless oil drilling on indigenous communities
… take a trip from Ecuador down the Amazon to Brazil, in order to research the effects of … the problem, having driven and flown around Brazil and Ecuador, I also had to become a …
Having an allotment is no longer a tiresome hobby practised by old geezers in wellies and donkey jackets. It’s an insurance policy against an uncertain future, as Paul Kingsnorth has found out for himself over the last three years.
… Seeing the light Curiously enough, it took a Brazilian peasant to change my mind. Three … I found myself in the wide fields of southern Brazil, touring a rural settlement with a … landless people on unused land all over Brazil for 20 years, giving them new life and …
Far from being the healthy drink implied by its sports sponsorships, Diet Coke is a worrying cocktail of neurotoxic and potentially carcinogenic chemicals
… – the US, the UK, Germany, Canada and Brazil – guzzle more of this supposedly …
From chasing endangered parrots to hunting for the environmental holy grail with Friends of the Earth, one of Britain's pre-eminent eco campaigners wants to take his quest for a better, greener world to the halls of Westminster.
Dixe Wills meets a man on a mission
… vast, arid shrubland in north-eastern Brazil—chasing a rare blue parrot called the …
Chemicals, pesticides, GM and agrofuels – when it comes to food production it seems the lunatics are running the asylum. But there is hope in some new approaches
… integrated farms, as pioneered in China and Brazil. Combining fish, crops and livestock, …
The claims for biofuels make it seem truly a wonder crop. Mark Anslow separates the wheat from the chaff
… 53 pence per litre to 8 pence per litre. In Brazil, although subsidies of ethanol … plants, which are particularly common in Brazil, 12 cu ft of a thick, dark red, acid …
The promise of more food from increased yields is driving the appeal for more GM crops, but that promise is theoretical and unfulfilled, argue Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch
… land required to give equal yields. In Brazil, the root vegetable arracacha and …
The US government has given he go-ahead for a test plot of genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus trees in Alabama. For the first time, these trees will be allowed to flower and set seed, opening the door to potential widespread contamination of the American South.
… deforestation is already speeding up in Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia to make way for …
The good, bad, and ugly sides of chocolate addiction.
… preserve and restore the northern part of the Brazilian Atlantic forest. The report highlighted that if Brazil, the world’s fifth largest … the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, and Cameroon. More than 90 per cent of …