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Video: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest
Anderson Cooper 360 —
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Editors Note: Were following the climate summit in Copenhagen but were not taking sides – were reporting the facts. As part of our Planet in Peril report, Anderson traveled to the rainforest to examine the impact of logging, agribusiness and construction on the worlds largest rainforest. Dont miss more of his ...4 days ago -
Video: Planet in Peril, water loss in Lake Chad
Anderson Cooper 360 —
Authority: 544
Sanjay Gupta | BIO AC360° Contributor Lake Chad once was the sixth-largest lake in the world, but in 45 years it has shrunk to half the size of Rhode Island – only 10 percent of its earlier size. The shallow body of water borders four countries: Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria – and provides water to 20 ...4 days ago -
Rainforest clash in Panama signals larger debate
Anderson Cooper 360 —
Authority: 544
Evidence of deforestation near the Congo Arriba river in Panamas Darien Province, April 2008. David Ariosto CNN Hunched over a campfire in eastern Panama, Embera tribesman Raul Mezua chanted a song his grandfather taught him when he was a boy. The words are memorized, passed down from an aging generation to ...4 days ago -
Papua New Guinea fact sheet
Anderson Cooper 360 —
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U.S. Department of State OFFICIAL NAME: Independent State of Papua New Guinea Geography Land area: 462,860 sq. km.; about the size of California. Cities: Capital–Port Moresby (254,158). Other cities–Lae (78,038), Mt. Hagen (27,789). Terrain: Mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills. The ...1 week ago -
Video: Planet in Peril, changing tides
Anderson Cooper 360 —
Authority: 544
Dr. Sanjay Gupta | BIO AC360° Contributor CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Located in the South Pacific, the Carteret Islands are fighting a losing battle against the ocean. Its estimated the six islands will disappear into the water by 2015. Papua New Guinea plans to relocate the Carterets 2,000 residents. But ...1 week ago -
Video: Planet in Peril, deforestation in the Rainforest
Anderson Cooper 360 —
Authority: 544
Anderson Cooper | BIO AC360° Anchor The Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world and covers nearly 70 percent of Brazil. The rainforest produces about 20 percent of the Earths oxygen and plays a big role in controlling the climate of the entire planet. The Amazon also is home to more species of plants and ...1 week ago -
Planet in Peril Video: Tracking Polar Bears in the Arctic
Anderson Cooper 360 —
Authority: 544
Anderson Cooper | BIO AC360° Anchor In Alaska and across the Arctic, the average amount of sea ice has been decreasing during the past few decades. This could be huge trouble for polar bears, which live and hunt primarily on sea ice. About 4,700 polar bears live in Alaska, U.S. officials say. The U.S. Fish ...1 week ago -
Planet in Peril Video: Greenland – how fast is the ice melting?
Anderson Cooper 360 —
Authority: 544
Anderson Cooper | BIO AC360° Anchor The ice sheet that blankets the largest island in the world holds about 630,000 miles of ice. But NASA estimated in 2005 that the ice sheet was losing about 200 gigatons per year – roughly 200 times more than the amount of water Los Angeles uses every year. At a research ...1 week ago -
The Kihansi spray toad is now extinct in the wild
Frog Matters —
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The Kihansi spray toad used to live in the spray region of the Kihansi waterfall, in Tanzania, and relied heavily on the spray from the waterfall to maintain a constant temperature and humidity in its environment. But due to the construction of a dam which funded by the World Bank, the waterfall has been disrupted, ...5 weeks ago
