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...relatively few roads into the forest. But oil and gas projects will require new roads, and roads destroy forests and damage wildlife habitats. Roads also invite in the most formidable agent of ecological disruption: humans. That means an influx of hunters and loggers, along with the heavy equipment and personnel needed for oil exploration. "Our attention has always been focused on the rainforest in eastern Brazil, because that's where the road network is," says Finer. "But the roads being put into the western Amazon have the potential to open up the area...
There are ways to extract oil and gas without building an extensive network of roads - in fact, Finer points out that the energy company Petrobras plans to use helicopters to transport all personnel and material to and from a site in Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. That move came at the behest of the Ecuadorian government, and it's representative of the sort of smart energy policies that South American governments will need to follow if the western Amazon isn't going to be sacrificed for oil. Just as important are the environmental impact assessments that can accurately gauge just...
...heavily managed media tour into Tskhinvali on Thursday, the army forced photographers to stay inside locked armored personnel carriers. Yet on Tuesday, before Human Rights Watch issued its report, it allowed photographers to stand with their torsos outside the vehicle to see burning buildings and irregular fighters carting away home appliances. On the ride out of the city on Thursday, commanders allowed a Russian TV reporter to sit outside the vehicle - even while they claimed to fear snipers - while they pushed me roughly back into the vehicle when I tried to stick my head...
...Russian tank squats across the main road heading into the town of Gori, its turret pointing east toward the capital, Tbilisi. Three armored personnel carriers seal off the rest of the thruway; one churns up the asphalt and repositions itself in the bushes. A handful of Russian special forces crouch next to their rocket propelled grenade launchers and eye the Georgian positions a few hundred yards away. In the valley behind the Russian units, in Gori itself, a column of thick black smoke billows skyward...
...naval vessels to deliver humanitarian aid to Poti could sharpen Washington's confrontation with Moscow and put the U.S. in the middle of the crisis. It is not clear yet where the U.S. will be delivering the aid, nor whether any Russian naval forces, rather than just Armored Personnel Carriers, are involved in blocking Poti. But the comparison to the Berlin airlift is unavoidable, and both rhetorically and practically the Administration has clearly decided to go in that direction. "We fully expect Russia to keep its word to provide free access to humanitarian assistance and allow any of our assistance...