- Brazil's Petrobras announces discovery in Amazon Rainforest region
Brazil's state-controlled oil and gas company Petrobras announced on Friday a new discovery in the Amazon Rainforest region.
According to the company, the preliminary data of the Long Duration Test started in September in the 1-ICB-1-AM well, also known as Igarape Chibata 1, confirmed an accumulation of light oil and natural gas.
The well, which reached a depth of 3,485 meters, is located in block SOL-T-171, in the Solimoes Basin. The block is in the town of Tefe, some 630 kilometers from ... ブラジルの国営石油ガス会社ペトロブラスは、地域に発表したアマゾンの熱帯雨林における金曜日新たな発見
- A climate journey: Interactive guide to Ecuador and Peru
John Vidal travels from the glaciers of the Andes to the Amazon rainforest finding out how local people are being affected by the changing climateChristine OliverJohn Vidal
ジョンVidalは地元の人々が変更climateChristine OliverJohnヴィダルによって影響されている方法を見つけるアマゾンの熱帯雨林にアンデスの氷河からの移動
- Amazon levels drop
LIMA: Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swathes of South American rainforest in the worst drought in decades.... リマは：干ばつ40年間で最も低いレベルにペルーのアマゾン河を切っており、それが最小、2005年に設定され、すでに以下のときに壊滅的な干ばつは数十年で最悪の干ばつ、南米の熱帯雨林の広大な包帯を....破損している
- Audio slideshow: Photographer Daniel Beltra on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Shots and a commentary on the disaster by the 2009 Prince's Rainforest Project award-winning photographer, who is covering the oil spill for Greenpeace
ショットや災害の解説グリーンピースの油流出をカバーする、2009年の王子の熱帯雨林プロジェクト賞を受賞した写真家による
- A bridge too far? Brazil's Manaus-Iranduba crossing
The bridge will bring much-needed economic opportunities for those living on the far bank but environmentalists fear it could open up the rainforest to further destructionPaddy AllenPaul Scruton
橋は対岸に住む人々のための待望の経済的な機会が環境保護は、さらにdestructionPaddy AllenPaulスクルートンに熱帯雨林を開く可能性が恐怖をもたらす
- Brazil approves Amazon dam
The massive Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rain forest won approval from Brazil's environmental protection agency yesterday, clearing the way for construction of a project fiercely opposed by environmentalists.... アマゾンの熱帯雨林の中心部で大規模なベロモンテ水力発電ダムが激しい環境保護ではなく、プロジェクトの建設のための方法をクリアして、昨日、ブラジルの環境保護庁の承認を獲得....
- Brazil creates crisis centre to halt deforestation
Brazil has set up a crisis centre to combat increased deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, the nation's environmental minister says.Minister Izabella Teixeira said officials had to take action after satellite data showed a... ブラジルはアマゾンの熱帯雨林の増加森林伐採と闘うための危機センターを設置して、国の環境大臣says.MinisterイザベッラTeixeiraさんは、衛星データは、a.を示した後、当局は行動を取ると述べた..
- Brazil moves to ease rainforest protection laws
Brazil has taken a big step towards passing laws that will loosen restrictions on the amount of Amazon rainforest that farmers can destroy, after its lower house of Parliament voted in favour of updating the country's 46-year-old... ブラジルは議会の、その下家は国がの46歳の更新に賛成した後、農民たちは、破壊できるアマゾンの熱帯雨林の量に制限を緩めるwill渡すlawsに向かって大きな一歩をとっている...
- New to Nature No 45: Ophiocordyceps camponoti-rufipedis
This fungus, found in rainforests in Brazil, infects ants and turns them into zombiesOphiocordyceps camponoti-rufipedis is one of four newly discovered fungus species that infect ants, turning them into zombies that affix themselves to leaves, sprout fruiting bodies, and spread spores to other ants.Each fungus attacks a separate species of carpenter ant but share a similar life cycle that terminates with a large sporocarp growing from the neck region of the host. All are from the Zona da Mata Atlantic rainforest system in south-eastern Brazil and probably represent a small fraction of zombie-ant fungus diversity.Quentin Wheeler is director of the International Institute for Species Exploration, Arizona State UniversityZoologyAnimalsWildlifeQuentin Wheelerguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
ブラジルの熱帯雨林で発見されたこの菌は、、アリに感染し、zombiesOphiocordyceps camponoti - rufipedisにそれらを回すと、貼付自らの葉には、他の子実体、およびスプレッドの胞子を発芽いるゾンビにそれらを回して、アリに感染four新たに発見された菌種の一つです
- Australia: it's hard to care for so many thirsty babies
Northern Queensland's rugged terrain turns a reforestation project into a tremendous challengeI'm on the Atherton tablelands, in far north Queensland, to participate in a bit of reforestation. This is no ordinary tree-planting exercise. It is the beginning of a long-term reforestation experiment: a planting of 28,000 trees. The aim is to identify a cost-effective way to recreate rainforest biodiversity on once-forested grazing lands, while also maximising the carbon sequestration potential.The rainforests of this region are home to many unique plants and animals, including the Lumholtz tree kangaroo and the large flightless cassowary. Epiphytic orchids seem to drip from the forests as mist materialises out of the canopies, and butterflies of every colour dance: all to the soundtrack of a cacophony of insect sounds.We are here in the middle of the wet season. Typically, a day is hot and humid, with clouds building throughout the day, climaxing in heavy afternoon or evening rain. Not this week, though. It has been hot and dry, with barely a cloud since the first day of planting five days ago: not what we had hoped for with thousands of thirsty trees.The planting team, a mix of backpackers, career planters and scientists new to the art of getting trees in holes quickly, is starting to tire. The combination of heat, digging and walking up and down very steep, ex-volcanic slopes is taking its toll. Clothes and skin are now a rich red, the colour of the fertile soil.With 28,000 trees on this very rugged country, it is impossible to water manually. Even if some could be watered, the scientific design of the project would require every tree to be treated the same. All or none. So for us, it is to be none. Luckily the soil was wet when we started. Now on this last day of plantin クイーンズランド州北部の険しい地形は、植林のビットに参加するには、はるか北のクイーンズランド州、アサートンテーブルランドに多大なchallengeI。。u0026#39;mに再植林プロジェクトになります
- What Cancún can take from California | Stuart Eizenstat and Jeffrey Horowitz
California's climate law which gives carbon credit to developing countries to conserve rainforest is a win-win the world can copyAs negotiators huddle in Cancún to try to eke out some progress on a global climate agreement, they would do well to look north to California for an example of how to achieve real progress while maintaining strong political support.In November, California voters resoundingly defeated well-funded attempts to roll back the state's climate law. There were many good reasons for this victory: first among them were a desire to protect the planet and a strongly-held belief that a modern, green economy is California's ticket to a prosperous, competitive future. But this stunning triumph also came about because the law's architects went out of their way to make sure that their plan was cost-effective. As environmentally-conscious as Californians may be, it was clear that an unduly costly approach would test that commitment, especially in the face of a slow economy and serious budget concerns.California's emphasis on cost-effectiveness and innovation is one that Cancún climate summit negotiators must take to heart if they are to achieve a breakthrough of any kind. Strong economic incentives and clear co-benefits are key to earning domestic support for a global climate agreement, both in the United States and around the world.Central to California's cost control effort was the inclusion of provisions to protect tropical rainforests around the globe. Forests in countries like Brazil, Indonesia and India keep the planet cool by sequestering carbon dioxide and delivering oxygen to us all. But 1,000-year-old forests are being logged and burned at the staggering rate of over a football field a second to make room in developing countries for unsustainable and 熱帯雨林を節約するために開発途上国への炭素クレジットを与え、カリフォルニア州の気候変動法が勝つ-地球規模の気候協定に関するいくつかの進歩をひねり出すしようとするカンクンでの交渉を密談copyAsできる世界を獲得するが、彼らはカリフォルニア州、北を見ると良いでしょう強力な政治的support.In月維持しながら、方法の例では、実質的な進展を達成するために、カリフォルニア州の有権者はresoundingly州の気候変動法をロールバックするために十分な資金の試みを破り、この勝利のために多くの良い理由があった：それらの中で最初保護するために欲望された惑星と近代的な、緑の経済が繁栄し、競争力のある将来のためにカリフォルニアのチケットされていることを強く心に誓った信念
- Complacency over deforestation pushes orang-utan closer to extinction | Jimmy Bond
Illegal logging and hunting continues despite legal protection, so the WWF is raising awareness to help save the orang-utanThe destruction of the world's rainforests continues at an alarming rate. Where I'm from in Borneo, illegal logging, coupled with hunting, is driving species such as the orang-utan ever closer towards extinction.There are three subspecies of orangutan in Borneo and we only have about 2,000 orangutans left in the wild in West Kalimantan province, and through deforestation and hunting their numbers continue to fall. Just last month I heard from villagers that some people are still killing and eating them even though they're supposed to be protected by law.I've just been travelling around the region in this part of Indonesia as I've been running a series of summer schools as part of a WWF awareness campaign to highlight the problems facing the orang-utan.Over the past two years, the main focus for the campaign has been children because we've found it very difficult to change the minds and attitudes of older generations. We invite the kids to come along to these camps from nearby villages and at the last one more than 200 kids turned up. We do many different activities from drawing to tug-of-war competitions but the over-arching aim is to touch their hearts with stories about this wonderful creature and the rainforests in which they live. We want to leave them with the understanding that these unique creatures need protecting.We're also starting to join forces with local government officials and religious leaders to spread the message to communities that live in traditional longhouses. We tell them about a recent success story that acts as a warning against killing orang-utans. One trader in Pontianak, where I'm based, was recently jailed for two years 違法伐採は、狩猟は、法的保護にもかかわらず引き続き、WWFは、世界の熱帯雨林のオランウータンutanThe破壊を救うために意識を高めていますので、驚くべき速さで進んでいます
- Environmental research: Nature's choreography | Editorial
Researchers have shown how the Amazon rainforest depends on the Sahara desert for half of its fresh mineral nutrientsDeserts cover a third of the world's land surface, they have a powerful role in the planetary climate machine, and they are home to 500 million people. And – as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature has been saying at the world heritage committee meeting in Brasilia, which finished last week – deserts are unique and fragile environments that are home to a remarkable array of plants and animals. The dust whipped up by storms in the Sahara or the arid highlands of Asia absorbs sunlight and darkens the skies, but at the right altitude the same dust also provides surfaces on which water vapour can nucleate as ice to fall as rain. The same dust storms have been linked to outbreaks of respiratory disease in the US and Europe, and to sudden eruptions of plant and animal disease across the distant oceans: one gram of Saharan dust carries a burden of a billion microbes, and some of these are certainly plant and animal pathogens.But the world heritage meeting also hailed one of the most remarkable discoveries of the last decade: the role of deserts as deliverers of nutrients to the rainier parts of the planet. Around 40m tons of dust is carried by prevailing winds from the Sahara to fertilise the Amazon basin each year. This is a very satisfying finding, since the extraordinary fertility of the Amazon rainforest – one of the richest and most biodiverse places on earth – has been a puzzle. Tropical rains leach nutrients from jungle soils, and the soils of the Amazon forest are notoriously poor, which is why clearance for cattle farming is such a bad idea. Biologists had calculated that the forest needed at least 50 研究者たちはどのようにアマゾンの熱帯雨林は、その新鮮なミネラルnutrientsDesertsの2分の1のサハラの砂漠に依存して示されて、世界の地表面の3分の1をカバー、彼らは惑星の気候のマシンで強力な役割をしており、彼らは500万人に家である
- Letters: Colombia must stop coca fumigations
Today former defence minister Juan Manuel Santos takes over as president of Colombia. We, 57 academics and other professionals from the UK, Colombia and elsewhere, have confirmed knowledge that since January 2010 Colombia's anti-narcotics police have established a base in the small town of Guapi in the Cauca region along the Pacific coastline, from where they have led operations to fumigate plots of illegally cultivated coca plants. However, this spraying of poisonous chemicals affects large parts of the rainforest and legally planted food crops. We believe that these fumigations constitute a double crime – against humanity and against the environment; we urge the new president to take immediate action to halt them.Black and indigenous communities have been living for hundreds of years along the river banks in this region, in harmony with their surrounding environment. They have succeeded in preserving this unique and vulnerable ecosystem, which is widely acknowledged as one of the world's hotspots of biological diversity. This was recognised by the World Bank-supported Proyecto Biopacífico (1992-98). It is in utter disregard of the recommendations drawn up by this acclaimed study that the Colombian government has undertaken a massive, indiscriminate fumigation campaign in the region, hoping to eradicate illegal coca cultivation.The impact of the widespread spraying on the local communities has been devastating. The planes have targeted not just illegal coca plants, but all vegetation, including staple crops that local populations depend upon. Rivers have been contaminated, and elderly people and children have been particularly badly affected by skin rashes and asthmatic attacks. There are also unconfirmed reports of congenital malformations occurring as a result of the 今日の元国防長官フアンマヌエルサントスはコロンビアの大統領として引き継ぎます
- Malaria kills hundreds in Amazon
Venezuelan health workers say an epidemic that may be malaria has killed dozens of people, decimating three villages of the Yanomami Indians in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest. Two indigenous health workers who visited... ベネズエラの保健医療従事者は、マラリアすることができるの流行はアマゾン熱帯雨林のリモート部分のヤノマミ族インディアンの三つの村を間引き、数十人が死亡していると言う
- In praise of … São Tomé | Editorial
No news was good news last year for this forgotten and magical island in the AtlanticLast year, it turns out, the Guardian managed to mention, in print or online, almost every country in the world. Three independent states were overlooked, however: Palau, Comoros and São Tomé. Already, by printing this, the omission has been corrected for 2011. More than that, however, the last of these forgotten states deserves praise. If travel writers ever descended on São Tomé they would be able to deploy every cliche. The island, and its even more isolated neighbour Príncipe, is a magical place of ridgeback mountains and rainforest, palms and rocky pinnacles, beaches and old Portuguese towns. Not very much has happened there since its rather vicious colonial rulers walked away in 1975; few people know that it is an independent country or can find it on the map, in the Atlantic just south of Nigeria and west of Gabon. Its government is democratic, the sun shines, the rain falls, the soil is good and the sea is full of fish.No one seems to go hungry and it is possible to walk across the capital in little more than 30 minutes. Chickens peck at the dust in the streets outside the pink presidential palace. For the last decade the country's citizens have been waiting for all this to change, amid expectations of an oil bonanza. But São Tomé's absence from the news is a sign the oil rush has failed so far. The money would be welcome. But neighbours such as Equatorial Guinea are a warning of how riches can be destructive. Perhaps forgotten states should be thankful.Sao Tome and Principeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
いいえニュースはAtlanticLast年に、この忘れられたと魔法の島、昨年の良いニュースだったことが判明、ガーディアンは、世界の印刷またはオンライン、ほぼすべての国では、言及することができた
- New climate deal reached
A new climate change deal reached in Mexico has set up a global framework to pay to protect rainforests vital to the ecosystem, but held off on the controversial introduction of a market role. メキシコに達し、新しい気候変動との契約は、熱帯雨林を生態系に不可欠な保護に支払うことに国際的な枠組みを設定しているが、市場の役割の論争の導入をオフに開催された
- From the lab to the field: How does climate science play out in reality? | John Vidal
For the next 10 days, I'm trekking from the chilly Andes to the sweltering Amazon, to hear how climate change is affecting human development in Latin America. First stop: PeruTonight we are in Lima, Peru's coastal capital city. It's freezing, with a bitter wind coming off the Pacific, but it's going to get worse. Tomorrow we go to Cusco at 3,400m to acclimatise and from there we're heading up into the really high Andean communities of Cuatro Lagunas and the remote valleys of Espinar at over 4,000m.Brrrr!Peru is going through its coldest winter in 50 years and hundreds of people and thousands of animals have already died of hypothermia as temperatures have fallen to record -23C lows in the mountain villages. But while this year's cold has been put down to a periodic La Niña phenomenom, scientists here are convinced the bigger picture in the Andes is of progressive climate change. Retreating glaciers, wild fluctuations of temperatures, unseasonal weather patterns, unpredictable frosts and extreme weather events are all consistent with climate change models.The idea of this 10-day journalistic expedition – I'm travelling with people from Oxfam, and writers from Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador and elsewhere – is to see on the ground how changing weather is affecting human development in the Andes. So, from the glaciers we plan to drop down through the many climatic zones all the way to the humid Yasuni national park in the Ecuadorean Amazon rainforest, where vast quantities of oil have been found. Along the way we hope to meet scientists, community leaders, farmers and others who will share their experiences and observations.We want to know what's happening to water supplies, crops and glaciers. Are the changes in climate pushing people to the cities? I 次の10日間、私は、気候変動はラテンアメリカで人間開発に影響を及ぼしているかを聞いてうだるようなAmazonに冷ややかなアンデスからトレッキングしています
- Frogs send bad vibrations
Tree frogs in tropical rainforests send messages to each other by vibrating the branches of the plants they live on, Boston University scientists have found. Biologists have discovered that red-eyed tree frogs, which are typically... 熱帯雨林の木のカエルは、お互いに彼らが住んでいる植物の枝を振動させてメッセージを送信すると、ボストン大学の科学者が発見した
- Deforestation in Brazil to be record-low this year, says Minister
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region would be a record-low this year, Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said Thursday.
According to figures released by the National Institute of Space Research (Inpe), deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in May fell to 109.6 square kilometers, a year-on-year decrease of 12 percent.
The figures indicate deforestation this year will be lower than the 7,400 square kilometers registered in 2009, which was the lowest in the past 20 years.
... 森林伐採は、地域のブラジルのアマゾンの熱帯雨林の今年とされる記。低く、環境大臣イザベッラテイシェイラと発表した
- Flello is right to tackle soya cultivation | Graham Harvey
The Labour MP's private member's bill promoting planet-friendly farming could be a major step towards sustainable agricultureMP Robert Flello's choice of planet-friendly livestock farming as the subject of his private member's bill must have come as something of a surprise to his constituents.The Labour man represents Stoke-on-Trent South, not known for its high population of farmers. Yet his bill – if it makes it to the statute book – will chiefly benefit farmers both in South America and in the UK.Flello, whose name came out second in the parliamentary private members draw, has taken up a Friends of the Earth campaign to reduce the volume of soya meal imported to the UK as animal feed. It's certainly a worthwhile cause. In a new report, Pastures New, Friends of the Earth highlights the damage caused to wildlife and the rainforest in Brazil and Argentina by the growing of soya for western livestock farmers.The UK currently imports around a million tonnes of the soya meal each year for livestock feed. New research commissioned by the environmental group shows that at least half these imports could be easily replaced with home-grown protein crops such as peas, beans and sunflower and by better use of clover-rich pasture.The research – carried out at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester – was presented at a Commons meeting in support of the Bill. What the people of Stoke-on-Trent would have made of detailed cost comparisons between different feedstuffs in the diets of pigs and cattle is hard to say. But their MP seemed to follow all this Farmers Weekly stuff without problem.Flello's aim is to get broad support from both farmers and environmental groups for the measure that will mark a major step towards a sustainable agriculture in Britain. It will mean that money 彼constituents.The労働には驚きのようなものとして来ている必要があります労働党のプライベートメンバの法案が推進地球にやさしい農業を自分のプライベートメンバの法案の対象と地球にやさしい畜産の持続可能なagricultureMPロバートFlelloの選択に向けて大きな一歩かもしれない男が表すストークオントレント南、農家の高い人口の知られていないの
- Burger King to Stop Buying Oil From Indonesian Co.
Burger King to stop buying palm oil from Indonesian company accused of rainforest destruction
Indonesia - Rainforest - Business - Asia - Oil and Gas バーガーキングは、ガスと石油のアジア- -を停止するインドネシアからの購入のパーム油会社被告の熱帯雨林の破壊インドネシア-熱帯雨林-ビジネス
- Burger King cancels Sinar Mas palm oil deal in eco push
Environmentalists praised Burger King's decision to stop buying palm oil from an Indonesian company accused of destroying rain forests.
環境保護は、バーガーキングの決定をインドネシアの熱帯雨林を破壊するの被告人からのパーム油の購入停止に賞賛した
- Tour operators 'helpless' in face of Iceland's volcano
Tom Marchant, of tour operator Black Tomato: 'Normally we can help our customers plan – this time it's different'As days go in a tour operator's life, yesterday was a strange one. It began with the news that the active volcano, whose images the office had been cooing over for the past few weeks, had sent an ash cloud into the atmosphere that had taken all commercial aviation activity out of the air. The mood then changed from a sense of bewilderment at the power of Mother Nature to a state of emergency. Frenzied calls were made to airlines and countless conversations were had with customers as we worked out ways that we could bring them home or rearrange plans for future travel.But perhaps what was stranger still, was that no matter what contingencies were being put in place and advice was being given, there was a sense of helplessness that this was a situation that was out of our hands.Up until yesterday, all the talk had been about volcanoes. I was off to climb one in the Congo – the beginnings of the Icelandic eruption a couple of weeks ago had produced stunning images that prompted a surge in requests for people to travel there. One of our other volcanic experiences of surfing down the ash-strewn slopes of a dormant Nicaraguan volcano had also seen a spike due to the chatter about Iceland. From my position as the owner of a tour operator, volcanoes were a brilliant catalyst for some of the best travel experiences in the world.And now? Well, it's quite the opposite, isn't it? I'm sure you can appreciate the irony that as I completed the final preparations for a trip to climb one of central Africa's highest volcanic peaks, the activity of a volcano set in a very different landscape to the Congolese rain forest was bringing a halt to my travel proceedings.Travel is a c ツアーのトムマーチャントは、演算子黒トマト：。。u0026#39;通常我々は顧客が計画ヘルプすることができます - それはdifferent。。u0026#39;As日だこの時間はツアーオペレーターの生活の中で行くと、昨日の奇妙なものだった
- Our letter to tomorrow | Graham Wynne
As the election approaches, we must remember that politicians hold the key to ensuring the survival of our natural worldThe opening shots have already been fired in what promises to be a long and hard fought election campaign. As we prepare to go to the polls, our planet stands at a crossroads. Whoever forms the next government will face not only a financial crisis, but the crises facing our wildlife and our climate too.The solutions to these crises are linked. The decisions our political leaders make to fix the nation's finances will have major implications for the health of our natural environment and the wellbeing of ourselves and future generations. Put simply, it is time to cut wasteful expenditure that pollutes or destroys the environment, and invest in protecting nature and the services it provides.If there is one thing which stands as a symbol of waste and folly in public spending, it is our approach to biofuels. Biofuels were meant to be part of the solution to climate change; helping to wean us off fossil fuels. Instead, motorists are being forced to pay for a policy which is little short of an environmental disaster.Intensive production and land-use change mean many of the crops grown to make biofuels may produce more greenhouse gas emissions than the fossil fuels they are meant to replace. Some crops, such as palm oil, are grown on land hacked from the rainforests.In the UK, the amount of biofuels in our cars is driven by the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation, which requires 3.25% of vehicle fuel to be made up of biofuels. Three years from now, that will have risen to 5%, and we will have collectively paid up to £720m more for fuel as a result.We are quite literally paying to destroy the rainforests, their precious stores of carbon and their irreplaceable 選挙が近づくと、私たちは、政治家はすでに何が長いと懸命に戦った選挙されることを約束に解雇されている私たちの自然worldTheオープニングショットの生存を確保するためにキーを押した覚えがあります
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