Tag: rain forest
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April 27, 2007 07:50 PM EDT --
The Bush administration wants to spend your tax dollars to
expand destructive logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest
-- a pristine rainforest haven for grizzly bears, thriving
salmon runs and . . .
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February 05, 2009 09:31 PM EST --
CHILIBRE, Panama (UPI) -- Farm acreage in Latin America is being overrun by jungles, officials say, sparking debate among scientists about how urgent it is to save primeval rain forests.
New "secondary" . . .
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June 17, 2009 05:49 PM EDT --
“The USDA is currently taking public comments on whether or not the company ArborGen should be allowed to conduct 29 field trials of genetically engineered "cold tolerant" eucalyptus trees in . . .
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April 30, 2006 12:54 PM EDT --
Tropical and temperate rainforests are among the most important and yet threatened ecosystems on the planet.
Today, more than half of Earth's original rainforests have all been destroyed, victims . . .
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September 15, 2009 09:40 PM EDT --
This is a few pictures of flowers we took while in a Hawaii Rainforest. I hope you like them as much as we do.
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September 22, 2009 03:23 AM EDT --
Large-scale afforestation, in the form of bringing vegetation into the desert by means of desalinated water, is proposed by a team of scientists. A study by Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount . . .
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June 21, 2007 06:51 PM EDT --
I just found out about this great website called Planet-Save where if you sign up for a free email account you get 25 MG of storage, and help save land and plant trees in the rainforest. How it works is . . .
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February 15, 2009 10:31 PM EST --
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has in many respects underestimated the severity of global warming and the speed at which it strikes. "From 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions . . .
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April 26, 2006 04:18 PM EDT --
New Protected Area Furthers Conservation of 4 Million Acres of the Amazon Rainforest Between Peru and Brazil
On April 3, 2006, the Peruvian government declared the Sierra del Divisor Reserve Zone a new . . .
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November 11, 2006 08:28 PM EST --
Two links below. Free clicks to help save lives.
I will be adding more as I find them. Unless anyone else knows of some.
FreeDonation.com
Care 2 Make a Difference
Stop AIDS - Support the Arts - Defeat . . .
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September 27, 2007 07:57 PM EDT --
Besides doing my small part to help the animal kingdom by giving a home to 3 dogs and a cat, (lovingly referred to as "The Boys") I go to Care2 everyday to Click To Donate.
If you've . . .
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April 07, 2008 05:15 PM EDT --
This otter is the world's largest otter. It grows to lengths of 4 to 8 ft. It tip the scale at 49 to 71 lbs. These mammals are largely aquatic. They live in the rivers and . . .
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July 03, 2008 01:29 PM EDT --
[Originally published May 26, 2007 at http://www.myspace.com/fran_and_dave_experiment]
It was a Wednesday night in May, 2007 and I was back in the Kanawha State Forest. I had stayed late at work so . . .
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January 18, 2006 10:30 PM EST --
Like a blossoming daisy he emerges from the communion of trees,
The green sucked from their leaves by Rip Van Winkle's straw.
As the rain slithers down the brittle tree bark,
He casts aside his . . .
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August 25, 2007 09:10 PM EDT --
I love Costa Rica ! I never have a horrible time there! I have been eight times and it seems it gets better every time. I remember the first time I saw it. As the boat pulled in I . . .
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May 17, 2008 06:51 PM EDT --
Silver Forest
By: Megan Blaney
Broken leaves, bent twigs
A path through silver woods . . .
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September 30, 2006 02:50 AM EDT --
A Brazilian jetliner with 155 people aboard was reported missing Friday over the Amazon jungle. Gol Airlines flight 1907 was at first believed to have collided with a smaller plane in the remote . . .
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July 30, 2006 10:11 PM EDT --
I just got back from one of those vacations you go on that you wish would never end. On July 20 my husband & I flew to Seattle. They were having a heatwave. Yep, on my husband's first trip to . . .
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April 15, 2008 08:33 AM EDT --
Well my photos are back. All 412 of them. Don't panic, I won't post them here - but hmmm what a project THAT would be.
Instead of being wordy and describing everything in excruciating . . .
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May 29, 2008 12:32 PM EDT --
Well wouldn't you know it Thursday night it started to rain. And it rained off and on the rest of the trip. Whats a little rain when camping right ? It has never stopped me, rain is beautiful. Cold . . .
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