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...relief is likely to be temporary, and dryer conditions will return later in the year. Experts are particularly worried about Brazil, where a new dry season is just starting. Daniel Nepstad, a tropical-forest ecologist at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, notes that "the eastern Amazon is teetering on the edge." The region has received one-fifth of its normal rainfall in the past year, and Nepstad says an area 20 times the size of Massachusetts is at risk...
After studying groups of modern hunter-gatherers living in Ethiopia, the Amazon area and New Guinea, Pontius concluded that a constant fear for life altered the way the brains of their Stone Age ancestors operated...
Three days before Christmas 1988, Brazil was stunned by the news that Chico Mendes, a humble rubber tapper who had become the country's most famous crusader for the protection of the Amazon rain forest, had been murdered by furious Brazilian landowners. Martyrdom can help fulfill a life's mission, and that was true for Mendes: his death electrified a generation of young Brazilians, who found both magic and meaning in his seductive brand of environmentalism...
...Associated Press article appearing in the Crimson (Real World, March 17) described an "Amazon Fire out of Control" whose spread was endangering a number of Yanomamo villages. Despite the well-intentioned concern for the Yanomamo voiced in the article, I was truly surprised at the racist assumptions pervading the description of this people. Beginning with a description of the Yanomamo as a "Stone Age tribe," the article concludes with the following: "For centuries, the Yanomami lived in virtual isolation, hunting and fishing with bow and arrows. They have no written language and count only up to two--anything more...
Another neurotoxicology topic that occupies him involves mercury exposure in the Amazon as a result of gold mining. Such exposure can cripple the human nervous system. Last year, Counter met with actor and conservationist Harrison Ford, the 1996 Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, to publicize the cause...