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Simply writing about nature and how to save it from destruction doesn’t really deem me and many like me as hardcore eco-enthusiasts. Its guys like Bruno Torfs who take the cake for being absorbed by nature completely. Being born in South America, he...
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A new book about Sen. Barack Obama has intensified a rivalry between two powerful competitors: Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Amazon.com.
made popular Aug 19 2008
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Oil exploration in the Amazon rain forest represents the latest, perhaps greatest, threat to preserving what remains of the world’s largest remaining tropical...
made popular Aug 13 2008
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Brazil’s environment minister said Monday he granted a license for an Amazon hydroelectric dam but attached stringent conditions to protect Indian reservations...
made popular Aug 12 2008
Few legal battles have been more exotic than the lawsuit tried over the past five years in a steamy jungle courtroom in Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest.
made popular Jul 29 2008
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Amazon.com Inc. shares leaped 13 percent Thursday after the Internet retailer showed that it doesn’t seem to be bothered by the sputtering U.S. economy.On...
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Amazon.com Inc. doesn’t seem to be bothered by high gas prices or the sputtering U.S. economy.On Wednesday, the Internet retailer reported second-quarter earnings...
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Amazon.com Inc. showed that it wasn’t being hurt by economic weakness and high fuel prices, reporting Wednesday that its second-quarter profits more than doubled...
made popular Jul 23 2008
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Amazon.com Inc. says its second-quarter profit more than doubled and surpassed Wall Street’s expectations. Sales were strong in several sections of Amazon’s...
made popular Jul 23 2008
After the announcement of Diablo III, Amazon has had a massive spike of requests for the Diablo II set. The game has risen to their bestselling list pretty quickly. The...
made popular Jul 1 2008
There is one question that arose a few times here and that became a real debate: in what extent the banks, in time to adopt rural credits, are responsible for the...
made popular Jun 25 2008
Hoax news from press photographer about lost Amazon tribe of warriors. It is fun or irresponsible journalism in the name of fun or attention seeking acts.
made popular Jun 24 2008
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed a new 3.8 million acre (1.5 million hectare) Indian reservation Friday in the heart of the Amazon rain forest’s...
made popular Jun 20 2008
Even as hundreds of other dotcoms fell by the wayside at the turn of the century, these three made it through the great internet crisis. Their fates have reflected the...
made popular Jun 20 2008
E-book has been in controversy since the inception of its idea. Publishers, authors and readers are in fight with each other proving its merit and demerits.
The logic...
made popular Jun 20 2008
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Grain crushers have extended a two-year-old moratorium on the purchase of soybeans planted in areas of the Amazon rain forest cut down after 2006, Brazil’s...
made popular Jun 17 2008
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Amazon.com Inc. had more trouble with its Web site Monday, just days after unspecified system issues knocked the online retailer offline for more than two hours.The...
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Amazon.com’s Web site is having more trouble.The extent of the problem isn’t yet known but some attempts to reach the e-commerce site Monday have resulted...
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Amazon.com’s Web site experienced problems in North America for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday because of system issues, the online retailer...
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Amazon.com’s Web site experienced problems in North America for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday because of system issues, the online retailer...
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Online retailer Amazon.com’s Web site went down for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday.Around 10 a.m. PDT, the Web site shut down, giving an...
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Rain forests are fast depleting from the face of our planet courtesy deforestation from illegal logging and clearing forests for plantation. The problem in curbing...
made popular Feb 7 2008
The humble cattle in the Latin American rain forest are falling prey to human’s merciless chopping of the rainforest to make way to their farmland and livestock...
made popular Aug 21 2007
The Brazilian government was on Wednesday set to announce near record deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest, the world’s leading source of biodiversity and...
made popular Aug 11 2007
Rain forests are thought to hold more than half of the world’s plant and animal species and store an immense amount of the planet’s carbon. However, the...
made popular Dec 5 2006
The gentle “hippie chimp” are known for resolving squabbles through sex rather than violence. The bonobo are disappearing dramatically and scientists are...
made popular Mar 7 2006
It is doing this for a century. By now, it has evaporated whole lagoons and kindled forest fires, killed off fish and crops, stranded boats and the villagers who travel...
made popular Dec 12 2005
A millennium has passed. A sprawling palace in the old royal city of Cancuen now lies in ruins. But, it still talks of the chilling massacre. Deep in Guatemala’s...
made popular Nov 25 2005
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