Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’

• Amazon loggers captured a young tribe girl and burned her alive

  Loggers in Brazil have reportedly burned a young tribe girl alive in an effort to scare the local indigenous population from its land. The girl, who the Telegraph report was around the age of eight, came from one of Amazon’s …

• Brazilian rainforest activist murdered

  The Guardian reports that the famous Amazon rainforest activist José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva has been killed in an ambush near his home in Brazil. Six months after predicting his own murder, a leading rainforest defender has reportedly been gunned …

• Indigenous Peruvians and police in deadly clashes at oil and mining protests

  Sometimes researchers are blamed of being alarmists stirring up fears of a fictional dystopia by the business-as-usual crowd. But it seems a forewarning of conflict over oil in Peru is proceeding according to exactly such a warning. The news first… …

• The colorful Cool-er e-Reader offers huge library, available in USA and Europe

• Chevron Hires Global Warming Denier as Consultant

  According to the Amazon Defense Coalition the petrochemical company Chevron has hired Douglas Southgate, a so called “scientist” and an “environmental economist”, who is affiliated with the Heartland Institute, a climate change denying think tank. “Based in Chicago, Heartland promotes …

• Smart ad from WWF shows the Amazon go down in paper towels

  The Danish design agency Saatchi & Saatchi has made this pretty simple and straightforward environment ad: To make people realize that saving the planet starts with them saving paper, we took a standard paper dispenser and made a simple modification …