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POPSThe World's Largest Butterfly: Queen Alexandra's Birdwing is the largest butterfly in the world, with a wingspan up to 1 foot (30 cm). This tropical butterfly is from the rainforest in northern Papua New Guinea. The caterpillars eat the pipevine plant, which contains poison; this makes the butterfly toxic to predators, which will get sick if they eat it. So they quickly learn to leave these huge butterflies alone.
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POPSYes We Will Have No Bananas Amazing the way oil, the rain forest, shipping, and marketing developed and then may lose the banana market... not to mention Mother Nature's assistance/interference.
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POPSWildlife in the DMZ: Vanishing rainforest of the Congo basin 1, The demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating South and North Korea is home to over 1,000 plant species and rare animals. The DMZ Forum is a lobby group promoting the idea of turning the area into a nature reserve. 2. The forest is the world's biggest after the Amazon. Now Britain and Norway have created a £108m fund to help protect it from logging and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The Congo basin forest is home to around 50 million people in six countries including Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Congo-Brazzaville. The Congo basin forest is twice the size of France and exceeded in size only by the Amazon. It is estimated that logging - much of it illegal - destroys an area the size of 25,000 football pitches every week. The UN estimates that at present rates two-thirds of the forest will have vanished by the year 2040.
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POPSClick to give food. No brainer here. Click to give food, it's that easy. Note the tabs at the top of the hungersite.com.......page, click for breast cancer, child health, literacy, rainforests, animal rescue.
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POPSNitrogen-fixing puzzle solved. Fixing Nitrogen is 'expensive' in organic terms, 'costing' the plant twice as much carbon as does nitrogen drawn from the soil. Phosphorous also needs to be released from organic matter and made soluble, in phosphorous poor soils. The extra nitrogen is used to do this. Other plants in the surrounding area also benefit.
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POPSAmazon Rainforest Dwindles In The Rush For Biofuels
'' 'It offends me to see fingers pointed against clean energy from biofuels, fingers soiled with oil and coal,' President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said." As the politicians were hurling accusations in Rome, a new Brazilian study indicates that Amazon rainforest depletion is intensifying. Read about it here. Brazil's new environment minister is blaming it on cattle ranchers. That nine-month total surpassed the entire acreage in the Amazon that was destroyed over the previous 12 months, according to DETER data. What's worse, the satellites couldn't see about half of the forest in April due to cloud cover, suggesting that actual deforestation likely was much greater. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/557332.html The minister, Carlos Minc, says Brazil's government will impound cattle caught grazing on illegally cleared pastures with an operation, dubbed "Rogue Bull," to attack deforestation in the rain forest. http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/556812.html
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