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...Amazon was deforested in the second half of 2007 and even more was degraded by fire. Some scientists believe fires are now altering the local microclimate and could eventually reduce the Amazon to a savanna or even a desert. "It's approaching a tipping point," says ecologist Daniel Nepstad of the Woods Hole Research Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clean Energy Scam | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...Westerners may have a tough time knowing which of these movie spells and rituals are grounded in ancient Taoist dogma - the rules of a sacred old game - and which ones were dreamed up by screenwriters high on hash and trash. For some of the answers, consult Peter Nepstad?s essays on his always-enlightening website, The Illuminated Lantern. And if they don?t fill in all the gaps in your ignorance, consider the words of the Taoist priest in ?Devil Fetus.? He offers this sage advice ?to the dead and the alive: Take it easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...life to watching movies and can put their informed prejudices into words. I can heartily recommend the essays on Bergman, Bresson, Bunuel and other demanding European auteurs in Gregory and Maria Pearse?s Truth-in-Cinema Quest site and the panoramic considerations of themes in Chinese movies on Peter Nepstad?s The Illuminated Lantern. And I?m agreeably flummoxed by the attention ladled onto the 175 films made by Spanish bad-film auteur Jesus Franco. Tim Lucas? overview is almost enough to force me to watch, again and again, those tortured films with gorgeous naked women. Anything for film research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Web, the Masses are Critical | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Conditions have conspired, say scientists, to make the Amazon more vulnerable than ever before. Of most concern is the heightened impact of El Nino, the periodic warming of Pacific waters that plays havoc with the world's weather. El Nino helped cause the 1998 Amazon dry spell, and ecologist Nepstad has studied the vicious circle of drought and fire. The first year of drying and burning sucks vital moisture from the soil and leaves the forest littered with tinder. Sheltering leaves that ordinarily prevent the forest floor from baking in the sun are thinned out. The rainy season may provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road To Disaster | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...open the forest to settlers, and they will undoubtedly set fires to clear land near the road. This area, however is regularly hit by drought and is perhaps the most vulnerable part of the forest. Fires here could grow into the worst conflagration the Amazon has ever seen. Daniel Nepstad, an ecologist who divides his time between the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts and the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research in Belem, Brazil, warns that the paving of BR-163 "could be the beginning of the end of the Amazon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road To Disaster | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

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