Rainforest Cafe Closes Iconic Edison Location, Leaving New Jersey with One Remaining Outpost
Edison, NJ – The Rainforest Cafe at Menlo Park Mall in Edison, New Jersey, has officially shut its doors, marking the end of a 27-year …
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Brazil lawmakers pass bill to pave a highway through Amazon rainforest
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has approved a bill to relax environmental licensing to pave a highway cutting through the heart …
‘Green Nobel’ prize to recognize environmental work in Amazon rainforest
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel is offering a “Green Nobel” prize, unrelated to the Nobel Foundation, to environmental champions of the Amazon …
Wildfires in dry Amazon rainforest choke Manaus city
By Bruno Kelly MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) – Clouds of dense gray smoke from dozens of wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon, many of them illegally started, …
Journalists to complete book on saving Amazon rainforest by murdered British writer
By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – One year after British reporter Dom Phillips was murdered in Brazil while working on a book about saving the …
Explainer-What Brazil’s election means for the Amazon rainforest
By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday may determine the fate of the Amazon jungle, the world’s largest rainforest, after …
Pipeline Rupture Causes Massive Oil Spray Into Amazon Rainforest
A South American energy company was forced to halt operations of a pipeline traveling through the Amazon rainforest after a rupture caused a large leak …