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Right now in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, a day's drive over rutted tracks northeast of the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, they're counting the trees. Members of nearby indigenous communities, with help from the Bolivian green group Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) and the American nonprofit the...
After the news that Amazon deforestation rose 3.8% in the past year--the first increase since 2004--Brazil will present plans for halving the yearly destruction at the U.N. climate summit in Poznan, Poland, which began Dec. 1. Forest-razing for agriculture accelerated this year with soaring beef and soy...
President Bush has assured Indians that Mumbai’s prosperity will continue unchecked. I believe it. Some tour groups may cancel their visits to Mumbai. Businesspeople may be a little more leery about checking into the Taj. But it’s hard to imagine that Mumbai?...
Numerous studies prove that over-consumption by the wealthiest nations poses enormous threats to the environment. In Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, Richard Robbins discusses the enormous extent to which the production, processing and consumption of commodities use up limited reserves of natural resources and produce toxic byproducts...
First proposed by Ronald Reagan in 1983, the concept behind ballistic missile defense is simple. It aims to provide a way to destroy missiles in transit and to thus circumvent the endgame of “mutually assured destruction.” Technologies have varied, with initial plans favoring nuclear...