Posts tagged Amazon Basin
News flash: Scheme to gut eco-safeguards being railroaded through Brazil's Congress
PoliticsPhilip FearnsideBrazil, Brazilian Senate, Philip Fearnside, Senator Romero Juca, environmental safeguards, fast-tracking, environmental licensing, hydroelectric dams, Amazon Basin, deforestation, roads, power lines, Madeira River, Belo Monte Dam, Tapajos River
Habitat fragmentation is having "terrifying" effects on ecosystems
Bill Laurancehabitat fragmentation, deforestation, Nick Haddad, Thomas Lovejoy, William Laurance, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, experimental studies, roads, forest invasions, edge effects, Amazon Basin, Congo Basin, forest elephants, poaching
ALERT confronts US Ambassador about roads
Bill Lauranceroads, highways, road expansion, wilderness, deforestation, Kenneth Quinn, US ambassador, Congo Basin, Amazon Basin, New Guinea, Siberia, National Geographic, environmental impacts, rural communities, food security
