Gold Rush Tears Up a Patch of the Amazon

It's a gold rush in the Amazon jungle, driven by the Internet. Speeding past unbroken walls of foliage, a motorboat packed with gritty prospectors veers toward the shore of the Juma river and spills its passengers into a city of black plastic lean-tos veiled by greasy smoke. All around them are newly dug pits, felled trees, misery and tales of striking it rich. This is Eldorado do Juma, scene of Brazil's biggest gold rush in more than 20 years.

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The landscape of health has changed. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's and allergies.

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"A group promoting reforestation in Appalachia is seeking more than $422 million to plant trees on mountains that were cleared or leveled for surface mining."

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A Million Boat Float...a 'Two Day' protest in California

There are numerous articles posted here and all over the web about 'Water' use/users here in California. It is a growing concern and one that is not going to be easily settled.

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In still another effort to insure the GOP agenda of gutting environmental policies & furthering corporate interests, the Bush administration has been quietly stacking the deck against the incoming President Obama.

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In response to arctic melting, and increased shipping in the arctic north, Canada seeks to regulate shipping, and protect the environment...

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A great win for minimal intrusion into the park by commercial interests.

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Chief Justice John Roberts was pained.

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Bitter opponents over the future of the Klamath River unveiled a formal agreement on Tuesday to pave the way for removal of four aging hydroelectric dams that re-engineered the watershed and sharply decreased fish stocks.

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One week after the ill-fated cruise ship M/S Explorer struck an iceberg and subsequently sank in the frigid waters of the Antarctic Ocean, the accident continues to pose a major environmental threat to the pristine region's fragile ecosystem.

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The eco-tourism lodges, owned and operated by families who once grew coca and located on Colombia's Caribbean coast will be promoted by the European Union via its various Colombian embassies.

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Let's be honest: as nice as it is to live in Southern California — and who doesn't enjoy the near daily blazing sun, blue skies and toasty weather — one could hardly credit its "pristine" environment for being a main selling point.

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If what goes up must come down, then it's quite logical to also assume that what goes in must come out.

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Lamination is a quick and easy way to protect your prints. Lamination protects prints by permanently bonding clear plastic film to one or both sides of the prints, making them tear- and waterproof. It preserves your prints from moisture and environmental damage.

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