Word: forested
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...started by creating the EMA Green Seal, which is a badge of approval for productions that follow environmentally friendly practices. "You hit the targets, and you get the stamp of approval," says Bochner, who in his own career as a filmmaker helped ban the use of luan, a rain-forest mahogany wood often harvested in threatened Indonesia, in favor of more sustainable materials. "We want to make this the norm...
...walking through the Réserve Spéciale d'Analamazaotra, a few hours' drive west of Madagascar's capital of Antananarivo. The reserve is one of the few remaining patches of untouched forest on Madagascar, where more than 90% of the native tree cover has already been lost; chameleons, rare frogs and lemurs make their home here. It's late afternoon, and patches of early spring sunlight (this is the Southern Hemisphere) peek through the Ravenea louvelii, the native palm. Lemurs are sleeping this time of day, though, and a sleeping lemur is hard to spot. But then...
...walk through Analamazaotra reminds you of how much there is to be gained when projects like this work - or lost, if they fail. After the sun sets, Mittermeier and Razafindrasolo lead a nocturnal tour along the outskirts of the reserve. The forest throbs with invisible life. What we can't see, we can hear: tree frogs mating, insects whirring, a rustling through the branches. Our flashlights pierce the canopy, but just barely, before a thicket of leaves absorbs the beam. After hundreds of years of human exploration on this island, there are still countless species that have...
...leader and high school dropout, become Brazil's most popular President in a half-century. The oil find could make Brazil one of the world's largest crude producers, but even without that bounty, the economy has been growing as vigorously as a guava tree in the Amazon rain forest, allowing Brazil to start reducing its epic social inequality. Economic strength has also allowed the country to flex its diplomatic clout as the hemisphere's first real counterweight to the U.S. Lula led the creation of a bloc of developing nations, the G-20, to thwart U.S. and European hegemony...
Some colleges, such as Bates, Lawrence, Wake Forest and Smith, have already made the SAT and ACT optional, and could prove to be at the vanguard of a new trend if the recommendations of Fitzsimmons and his committee take hold...