Tropical trees keep turbines turning
Source: BBC
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-14 00:12:00 -0700 | green-news
IP Rainforests, by their very name, are prime locations for the dams that are usually required to create the force of water needed to generate electric power. Until now the presumption has been that cutting down the trees near a...
Study Finds Loss of Rain Forests Can Deplete Hydropower
Source: The New York Times
Brasília :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-13 13:22:17 -0700 | green-news
May 13, 2013 The loss of tropical rain forests is likely to reduce the energy output of hydroelectric projects in countries like Brazil that are investing billions of dollars to create power to support economic growth. That is the conclusion...
Amazon ‘May Lose 65% of Land Biomass by 2060'
Source: Truthdig
Viçosa :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-10 07:56:44 -0700 | green-news
Amazon continues to expand, say researchers from Brazil and the US. They calculate that the large-scale expansion of agriculture at the expense of the forest could entail the loss of almost two-thirds of the Amazon's terrestrial biomass by later this...
Lost Continent off Brazil
Source: Fox
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-09 06:02:13 -0700 | green-news
Published May 08, 2013 FoxNews.com A research team says they have found an area off the coast of Brazil that may have contained parts of the original continent Pangaea, which existed before the Americas, Africa and other land masses drifted...
Expedition finds biodiversity around undersea mountain
Source: NewKerala
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-09 00:48:48 -0700 | green-news
The biologist and oceanographer, one of the few Brazilian scientists taking part in the expedition, said he observed a large number of animals. "Beautiful cold water corals that have a lot of life around them: starfish, brittle stars, holothuroidea (sea...
Brazil oil giant discovers crude
Source: NewKerala
Santos :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-09 00:48:48 -0700 | green-news
The Entorno de Iara well is 235 km off the coast of the southeastern state of Rio de Janeiro in the pre-salt layer, Petrobras said. The pre-salt layer is found beneath the sea bottom and contains a gel-like deposit of...
Severe Weather Watch for Auckland and Coromandel (Newstalk ZB)
Source: Xtra News
Coromandel :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-08 17:43:31 -0700 | green-news
Severe Weather Watch for Auckland and Coromandel Laura Heathcote, Newstalk ZB May 9, 2013, 12:25 pm A Severe Weather Watch has been issued for Auckland and Coromandel...Rates could reach 20 to 40 millimetres an hour in a few places. Drivers...
Awa's Plight Reaches Top Human Rights Watchdog
Source: Scoop
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-07 18:46:16 -0700 | green-news
Brazil's government to account for failing to remove hundreds of illegal invaders from the Awa's land. It says, The Awa will not survive without their lands, which the State of Brazil has failed to take timely and effective measures to...
You can't ride on this railroad, but it may keep your lights on
Source: Bakersfield Californian
Arês :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-04 22:58:04 -0700 | green-news
Photos The goal is to create an efficient and environmentally sound method for storing and stabilizing energy generated by wind farms and photovoltaic solar plants, which by their nature work only when conditions are right. Wind and solar are all...
Brazil firm to step up search for onshore gas reserves
Source: NewKerala
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-04 03:38:56 -0700 | green-news
In remarks at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, she said one of the priorities of Petrobras' Strategic Plan 2030 is to develop reserves of natural gas and so-called non-conventional gas. "One of the key activities of the Plan...
Dams in the Amazon: The rights and wrongs of Belo Monte
Source: The Economist
Altamira :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-02 10:21:06 -0700 | green-news
From the print edition THE biggest building site in Brazil is neither in the concrete jungle of Sao Paulo nor in beachside Rio de Janeiro, which is being revamped to host the 2016 Olympics. It lies 3,000km (1,900 miles) north...
Asia: Transportation's Role in Sustainable Development
Source: Scoop
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2013-04-23 16:16:21 -0700 | green-news
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed efforts by Asian countries meeting at a United Nations-backed regional forum to address transportation as part of the effort to fight climate change and achieve sustainable development. In his message to the opening of the...
Amazon Treaty Body A Model for Regional Conservation Efforts
Source: Scoop
Brasília :: Brazil | updated 2013-04-18 16:39:11 -0700 | green-news
It comprises Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. South-South cooperation, when it comes to the conservation and sustainable management of forests...It is a laboratory where we can build a common vision for sustainable development, said Ambassador Mario...
Brazil accused of not protecting Indians
Source: The Boston Globe
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2013-04-18 19:30:31 -0700 | green-news
Brazil's government has failed to comply with a court order to protect the Awa indigenous people in the Amazon jungles, a British-based Indian rights group said Thursday. Survival International said in a statement that authorities have ignored a federal judge's...
Brazil's wind-power generating capacity soars
Source: NewKerala
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2013-04-17 04:20:42 -0700 | green-news
Wind farms provided electricity to about 7.5 million people, or a population larger than that of Rio de Janeiro, the industry group said in a report. Wind-power investment totaled 3.5 billion reais (about $1.77 billion) last year, with 15,000 direct...
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