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Reason
June 2007
Ronald Bailey |
Back Into the Woods More people don't necessarily mean less forestland, according to a study.   |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Could Environmentalists Learn to Love This Road? An asphalt strip through Brazil's Amazon rainforest is intended to anchor an economy based on a newer, gentler way to use the rain forest. |
Smithsonian
March 2004
Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - World View Panama offers an ideal vantage point for scientists to see the big picture of life on earth. The forests and coral reefs of the tropics are the world's most biologically diverse ecosystems. |
IDB America
January 2006 |
We Are Trying to Make Dreams Happen The governor of Brazil's Amazonian state of Acre is a passionate advocate of the rain forest and his people's economic future. Here's an interview with Jorge Viana on his government's innovative approach to preserving the rain forest. |
Reason
May 2002
Brian Doherty |
Freeing Forests Privatizing land management: it was just a suggestion in one paragraph of President Bush's proposed 2003 budget, but it has already generated many pages of controversy... |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
New Amazonians Latin America is attempting to create a relationship between man and nature that includes the history, heritage and views of local people. |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Tomorrow's Amazon In the far western Amazonian state of Acre, a group of idealists is inventing a pragmatic, hard-nosed way to protect the rainforest. |
Smithsonian
November 2005
Elizabeth Royte |
35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Plotkin This ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation. |
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IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Machines in the Garden A state in Brazil's Amazon enlists laboratories and industrial parks to help protect its forests. |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Chico Mendes: Amazon Journey In tiny forest communities in the far western corner of the Brazilian Amazon, conversations often begin and end with the rubber tapper who rallied local communities and world opinion to the cause of protecting tropical forests and their inhabitants. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2007
Jeremy MacNealy |
International Paper Turns Over a Greener Leaf? The paper giant aims to increase profitability and do more to protect the environment. Investors, sound crazy? |
IDB America
April 2005
Roger Hamilton |
The Message of a Little Monkey In Rio de Janeiro and across the globe, natural ecosystems are being altered and simplified to serve burgeoning human demands. If the golden lion tamarin escapes extinction, the world will be a little more habitable for the rest of us. |
IDB America
July 2005
Roger Hamilton |
Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Alexandra Wolfe |
Next Life: Scouring the Forest for the Trees Private equity player Harald Orneberg sold his fund, then headed for Brazil to form The Forest Co. and grow (money on) trees. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
Stuart Biggs |
New Zealand Farmers Harvest Carbon Credits Growing trees can be more profitable than raising sheep. |
Outside
June 2003
Douglas Gantenbein |
We're Toast Last summer, U.S. wildfires cost $1.6 billion to stop and claimed the lives of 23 firefighters. The expense and sacrifice did nothing to solve the problems of overgrown forests, misguided policies, and misspent resources. We need to get serious about rethinking the role of flame in the woods. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Greg Peterson |
Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests. |
Geotimes
October 2005
Naomi Lubick |
China's Changing Landscape As China continues its economic metamorphosis into the gorilla in the global sandbox, it has rapidly changed its physical environment. Home to some of the world's largest cities, the country contains several of the most polluted cities in the world, partly because of its reliance on coal for energy. |
Geotimes
May 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Yellowstone Fires Leave Microbes Nitrogen-Hungry Researchers hot on the trail of severe fires in Yellow-stone National Park have found that the nitrogen in forest soils can be greatly affected by such fires, which occur within the region once every few hundred years, and kill most of a forest's trees. |
Scientific American
August 2008
Keren Blankfeld Schultz |
Wildfires May Improve Forests' Ability to Sequester Carbon When saving trees means less carbon storage. |
