Microbiologist Gary Strobel has ventured deep into nearly every big rain forest on earth.
Today, the situation is far closer to being dropped in the middle of the Rain Forest.
"You were very, very emphatic about wanting to visit a rain forest, " Figueres kidded Clinton.
"And people go gaga when they find 5 new species in the Amazon rain forest, " says Barton.
It turns out Ray knows Sue, the proprietor of our little slice of Puerto Rican rain forest.
Belo Monte has been the source of drama in the rain forest for the past two years.
"Nicaragua has one of the three great blocs of remaining tropical rain forest in Central America, " he said.
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To take up the slack, Brazilian farmers are clearing more of the Amazonian rain forest to plant soybeans.
Doss suggests that innovation is more like a rain forest, than a plantation.
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More than 800, 000 Maya nut trees have been planted for rain forest conservation.
The landing strip is just a tiny break in the rain forest's canopy.
In 2001 he brought back twigs of an ulmo tree from Chile's Patagonian rain forest on which lived the fungus Gliocladium roseum.
When the festival wound down, Ivy invited me to stay with her and her husband at their home in the rain forest.
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Scientists have tracked the ancestor of HIV to something like a zip code, a remote corner of the West African rain forest.
The Amazon rain forest covers a huge area, roughly half as large as the United States, with about 60% of it in Brazil.
Picinguaba is every Brazilian-beach fantasy come to life: laid-back, sultry, simple, with seemingly endless empty beaches and dense rain forest both close by.
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Similarly, the (plaintiffs) argue that the (plaintiffs) are poor, indigenous people of the rain forest who cannot properly be sued in New York.
Over the past decade, Brazil has cracked down on clear-cutting, especially in the biodiverse Amazon rain forest, reducing the rate of deforestation by 80%.
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Produced water does not biodegrade, and when Donziger and his colleagues visited the Oriente they discovered that hundreds of oily pools pockmarked the rain forest.
The "Rain Forest" room, for example, has a saltwater plunge pool.
For centuries, the rain forest was inhabited only by indigenous tribes.
National Geographic Expeditions runs tours throughout the year for the same price, covering natural wonders like Easter Island and the tropical Daintree rain forest in Australia.
Enter the mileage, and the app tells you what size of mangrove forest, equatorial rain forest or seagrass meadow, among other habitats, store an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.
Out of the Black Hawk open doors the immaculate rain forest stretches as far as the eye can see, broken only by pockets of coca fields.
"We believe today's judgment affirms what the plaintiffs have contended for the past 18 years about Chevron's intentional and unlawful contamination of Ecuador's rain forest, " he said.
At first we hear only the usual sounds of traffic, then, suddenly, the taxi honks are joined by bird shrieks and gurgling streams of a rain forest.
Once well within the rain forest, the city as well as its surrounding area now looks like Texas and is the capital of the state's cattle industry.
Training rural women about the Maya nut has made them champions of rain forest conservation and reforestation, as well as entrepreneurs who turn Maya nut products into income.
Now suppose we made you either Indiana Jones or Lara Croft and dropped you into the middle of the Amazon Rain Forest and you had to get home?
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