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Amazon rainforest fires date back thousands of years

Rhett A. Butler 14 Mar 2007

Indigenous populations deforested New World rainforests before European contact

Rhett A. Butler 28 Feb 2007

Biofuels, logging may spur deforestation in Guyana

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2007

New maps reveal causes of Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 26 Jan 2007

Brazil claims soy and beef not responsible for Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2006

Expansion of agriculture in the Amazon may impact climate

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2006

Amazon soy becomes greener

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2006

Amazon Port Pits Farmers Vs. Rainforest

The Associated Press 18 Jul 2006

Hudson Institute calls Amazon savanna biome a wasteland

Rhett A. Butler 23 Apr 2006

Greenpeace accuses McDonald’s of destroying the Amazon rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 7 Apr 2006

Pre-Columbian Amazon supported millions of people

Tina Butler 18 Oct 2005

Amazon deforestation lower than last year says Brazil

Rhett A. Butler 27 Aug 2005

Brazil’s growth as agricultural giant has cost — LA Times

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2005

Brazil’s grasslands could replace food production of American heartland

Tina Butler 1 Aug 2005

Rainforest loss in the Amazon tops 200,000 square miles, new figures from Brazilian government

Mongabay.com 20 May 2005

Farmers and landless poor battle over the Amazon

Reuters 22 Apr 2005

Chinese economy drives road-building and deforestation in the Amazon

Tina Butler 17 Apr 2005

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