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Amazon Rainforests News Results

·25/8/2010 - Declining trees spell gloom for planet, Sydney Morning Herald

·28/4/2010 - United Kingdom: New to nature, the moth that disguises itself as droppings, Independent (UK)

·24/12/2009 - Seven tipping points that could transform Earth,

·30/5/2009 - New York: Mysterious green meanies, Financial Times

·17/12/2008 - What price will the world pay to prevent environmental change?, Guardian

·28/8/2008 - Australia largely untouched by humans, say scientists, Asian News International

·28/8/2008 - Almost Half of Australia Untouched by Humans: Study, Reuters

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Amazon Rainforests Link Results

·Where the Trees are a Desert

·Deforestation in the Amazon 2004

·Tropical Rainforest Information for Kids

·Rainforest Action Network: Action Center

·Rainforest Heroes

·Amazonia

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Sandra Charity, interim chief executive of WWF Brazil. She points out that the loss in the single year to August 2002 makes up five per cent of the area lost over the last 500 years. Mario Monzoni, a project coordinator for Friends of the Earth in Brazil, told...
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