Today, the situation is far closer to being dropped in the middle of the Rain Forest.
Belo Monte has been the source of drama in the rain forest for the past two years.
The landing strip is just a tiny break in the rain forest's canopy.
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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Similarly, the (plaintiffs) argue that the (plaintiffs) are poor, indigenous people of the rain forest who cannot properly be sued in New York.
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.
For centuries, the rain forest was inhabited only by indigenous tribes.
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.
They soon found that much of the rain forest that would have harbored coffee trees in the past had been clear cut to grow corn, bananas and grass for livestock.
The luxurious new Black Rock Oceanfront Resort is a curving sweep of glass, steel, and wood beside the rain forest and above a surge channel that boasts the best storm-watching in the West.
The manager of Arco Iris Amazonica, a small hotel in the rain forest city of Iquitos, told police the couple stayed there on February 16 and told him they planned to travel to the town of Naplo, a 15-day trek.
The President, the Minister of Forests, could be "champion of the rain forest" but he would need to apply Guyana's own laws and policies and procedures, thoroughly and equitably, in place of the past two decades of corrupt mis-use and abuse.
Tykes will find plenty to keep them busy too, with Goosebumps' Attack of the Mutant, and Microsoft's Creative Writer 2, Magic School Bus Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs, Magic School Bus Explores the Rain Forest, Plus for Kids, and 3D Movie Maker.
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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.
And on top of it was the more graspable everyday bewilderment of a sick child: the humiliation of being suddenly removed from class, the disappointment of missing a trip to the IMAX theater or to the rain-forest exhibit at Moody Gardens, the growing awareness of a defining and isolating vulnerability.
The Amazon rain forest covers a huge area, roughly half as large as the United States, with about 60% of it in Brazil.
"And people go gaga when they find 5 new species in the Amazon rain forest, " says Barton.
To take up the slack, Brazilian farmers are clearing more of the Amazonian rain forest to plant soybeans.
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%.
The "Rain Forest" room, for example, has a saltwater plunge pool.
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?
Some fair points are scored who, after all, is not angered by the fate of Nigeria's Ogoni, the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, or agribusinesses exploiting Europe's crazy agricultural policies?
But it wasn't until he got out of his Atlanta office, traveled to the Costa Rican rain forest (at the Tourism Board's invitation) and relaxed on his patio at a resort that he got the idea of making an ad based on something other than words.
Scientists have tracked the ancestor of HIV to something like a zip code, a remote corner of the West African rain forest.
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.
With one tree able to produce as much as 400 pounds of food a year, using the Maya nut prevents rain forest clear-cutting to harvest other foods and increases populations' food supplies.
The Franz Josef glacier on the west side of the Southern Alps of New Zealand advanced sharply during the period of the Little Ice Age, actually invading a rain forest at its maximum extent in the early 1700s.
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The problem is that while clear-cutting sections of rain forest and burning out all the underbrush makes great soil for pastureland, it only does so for about three years.
For those who prefer to travel by boat, Wailua Kayak Adventures and Kayak Wailua offer tours that begin with a slow, two-mile paddle down the calm Wailua River, pass an old Hawaiian village along the banks and end in the middle of a tropical rain forest.
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