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Ethical coffee helps save Peruvian rainforest
Quillabamba, Peru (AFP) Aug 8, 2008 - Once bleak and lifeless places degraded by years of high-impact farming, Peruvian coffee farms are being transformed by a growing trend for certification schemes offering ethical and environmental guarantees to western consumers.
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Peruvian doctors showcase high cure rate for drug-resistant TB
More than 60 per cent of patients diagnosed with a type of tuberculosis that is very difficult to treat were cured with aggressive drug treatment, according to a study from Peru that shows the disease is not a 'death sentence.'
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Yale to return Machu Picchu artifactsLima, Peru - Yale University has agreed to return thousands of Inca artifacts taken from Peru's famed Machu Picchu citadel almost a century ago. |
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Miracle baby found in ruins of churchPisco, Peru - A 10-month-old boy was pulled from the ruins of a collapsed church seven hours after an earthquake leveled the Peruvian city of Pisco, state news agency Andina reported Saturday. |
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New research reports good environmental newsWashington, D.C., USA - For a change, there's some good news from the world of the environment. |
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Peru Launches Drive To Regrow Lost Forests And JunglesLima, Peru - Peru has launched an ambitious drive to regrow millions of hectares (acres) of jungle and forests laid bare by illegal logging, pollution and slash-and-burn farming, officials said Thursday. The immediate goal is to reforest more than 100,000 square kilometers (the size of South Korea) of forest that have been devastated these past 40 years, said National Institute of Natural Resources (Inrena) president Roberto Angeles. |
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The World’s Mysterious PlacesMountain View, California, USA - This compilation of the world's most mysterious places on Google Earth includes Oak Island, Area 51, the Pyramid of the Sun & Moon, various figures from Nazca, the Atacama Giant, Loch Ness, Arbor Low, Stonehenge, Avebury, Silbury Hill, St. Michael's Mount, Angkor Wat, Ayres Rock, the Olgas, and Maree Man. |
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The new 7 Wonders of the World are NamedLisbon, Portugal - As reported earlier today, the new 7 Wonders have been announced at a show in Lisbon tonight. |
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Wildlife Watchdog Eyes New Trade LimitsThe Hague, Netherlands - The international body overseeing wildlife trade may throw a lifeline to the shark popular in fish and chips and the aromatic cedar tree used for fine furniture and humidors, as it considers new limitations on commercial fisheries and timber. |
news from South America
- Ethical coffee helps save Peruvian rainforest
- Peruvian doctors showcase high cure rate for drug-resistant TB
- Brazil launches international fund to preserve Amazon
- Whale-Watching Report: Whales More Valuable Alive Than Dead
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- PHOTOS: 1,000 Tombs Discovered in Colombia
- Brazil simplifies malaria treatment
- VIDEO: Private Rain Forests Touted
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