A new iPhone app could revolutionize the way we do business nowadays. Forget about the pen left at home, the tons of paper manufactured and distributed annually and the millions of hectares of forests destroyed over this cause. Due to an innovative Adobe EchoSign application, users can sign important documents dire... |
22 December 2011
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The Brazilian Senate gives green light to a new controversial legal framework, meant to change the Forest Code, stipulating how many acres of forest can be wiped off private lands every year. Eco-groups talk about an emerging “disaster,” but their protest is useless at this point in time, since the... |
7 December 2011
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Gemma Arterton, the former Bond Girl, is keen on displaying an eco-friendly attitude. After returning from a from a six-day eventful journey to the remote Amazon with Sky Rainforest Rescue jungle, an eco-conscious organization, she wants to tell the story of the endangered ecosystems and their poor inhabitants. Ins... |
5 December 2011
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This September 17 image collected by Expedition 29 astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shows slash-and-burn forest clearing being conducted in Amazonia, the rainforest covering the Amazon Basin, in Brazil, South America.
This technique for clearing land is used to convert forests into arable la... |
10 October 2011
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Scientists have always thought that the Australia’s weird and mysterious marsupial mole came from an unknown desert, but the discovery of the first fossil record of one of their ancestors, showed everyone that they were far away from the truth.Living marsupial mole are blind, have no ears and live underground i... |
3 November 2010
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Greenpeace announced that over 200 people and 100 logging and charcoal companies faced prosecution in Brazil for their involvement in a large-scale fraud case. The companies allegedly contracted hacking groups that broke into the government's network and altered the records in order to allow for excessive defore... |
13 December 2008
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The Amazon is one of the richest areas in the world, in terms of tree diversity, recent studies show. On a single patch of soil, measuring about 25 hectares, researchers managed to identify more than 1,100 species of trees, whereas the same area was populated by 600 species of birds and some 170 species of mammals. S... |
24 October 2008
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A rainforest represents an explosion of life, the peak of biological diversity on Earth. But the trees that make the current rainforest appeared for the first time during the Cretaceous, at the sunset of the dinosaur realm. So, when did the first rainforest appear? And how did it look like?Now a British-American te... |
23 April 2007
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