"Rainforest in Transition: Is Amazon Transforming before Our Eyes?"
"A review suggests that the Amazon rainforest may be changing, courtesy of human impacts on the region's weather."
Source: Scientific American, 01/19/2012
South America
"Brazil Amazon Deforestation 'at Lowest Level in Years'"
"Brazil says the rate of deforestation in its Amazon region has fallen to the lowest level for 23 years."
Source: BBC, 12/08/2011
"Chevron Fined $28 Million, Faces Backlash for Brazil Spill"
"RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil's government slapped Chevron with a $28 million fine on Monday for causing an oil spill off the country's coast, a penalty that could rise as the U.S. company faces a political backlash over the accident."
Source: Reuters, 11/23/2011
"Eighth Brazilian Farmer Since May Killed in Amazon"
"An agricultural leader protesting illegal deforestation was shot to death in northern Brazil, the eighth environmentalist farmer to be killed since May in the Amazon, activists said Tuesday."
Source: AFP, 10/26/2011
"Shark Massacre Reported in Colombian Waters"
"Colombian environmental authorities have reported a huge shark massacre in the Malpelo wildlife sanctuary in Colombia's Pacific waters, where as many as 2,000 hammerhead, Galápagos and silky sharks may have been slaughtered for their fins."
Sibylla Brodzinsky reports for the Guardian October 19, 2011.
Source: Guardian, 10/20/2011
"In Peru, A Hunt For Chocolate Like You've Never Tasted It"
Researchers are discovering previously unknown species of the cacao bean in the rainforests of Peru.
Source: NPR, 10/11/2011
Access to Environmental Info Will Be an Issue at Rio+20
In June 2012, the nations of the world will convene in Rio de Janiero for the 20th anniversary of the landmark 1992 Rio Conference on Environment and Development that set the stage for a number of important treaties, including the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Brazil Police Arrest Suspects in Amazon Murders of Environmentalists
"Police in the Brazilian Amazon say they have arrested two men in connection with the murders of two rainforest activists who were gunned down in May."
Source: Guardian, 09/20/2011
Brazil Moves To Prevent 'Massacre' of Amazon Tribe by Drug Gangs
"Brazilian indigenous protection officers to make emergency visit to isolated community facing threat from heavily armed gangs."
Source: Guardian, 08/10/2011
Environmental Health Perspectives
EHP is a world-renowned, peer-reviewed research journal with a news section. It's published monthly by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, with select translations for subscribers in China, Brazil, Mexico and Chile.
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