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Rainforest Action Network's new Executive Director, Rebecca Tarbotton, has big plans for the Bay Area-based advocacy group. RAN, which was founded in 1985, takes on big banks that are funding the coal industry, like JP Morgan and Chase, and it has worked to protect the world's most threatened rainforests, like those in Indonesia that are home to endangered orangutans and tigers.

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According to preliminary data from Brazilian NGO Imazon, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 16% over the past twelve months, with 1,488 s

Russian rock star Yury Shevchuk sings in Moscow's Pushkin Square at an Aug. 22 demonstration to protect Khimki Forest.

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New York City has recently come under fire from rainforest advocates, and rightfully so: The City is the country's number one buyer of endangered rainforest wood.

Another interesting twist in the ongoing saga of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and how to slow them: As Mongabay reports, a new report by the World Agroforestry Centre shows that because so many of the nation's emissions fr

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From the top of Rio de Janeiro's towering mountain of Corcovado, at the feet of the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, the high rise urban centers neatly tucked along the shoreline are dwarfed by the rugged natural skyline

Forget for the moment about to what degree climate change has influenced the flooding in Pakistan.

Avatar's Home Tree Initiative heading to six continents. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox

James Cameron already planted one million trees in Brazil last April.

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If only Visa treated my debt the way the U.S. is treating debt from developing countries. On Friday, the Obama Administration announced that it will cancel debt from Brazil in exchange for forest protection. The U.S. has done the same for Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and the Philippines.

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At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. It sounds like the plot from a bad B-movie, but the reality is far more grim: More than 500 people have been infected and at least four children have died.

It's not the result of secret government experiments or a scientist gone mad.