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03-08-2009, 10:03 PM
Alcoa Razes Rain Forest in Court Case Led by Brazil Prosecutors
By Michael Smith and Adriana Brasileiro
July 31 (Bloomberg) -- For four decades, Edimar Bentes and his family have survived by farming tiny clearings in the jungle near their dirt-floor shack in the state of Para in the Brazilian Amazon.
On this April afternoon, Bentes, 56, squats in the driving rain and dips a glass into what just four years ago was a crystal-clear stream that provided drinking and bathing water. He frowns as the glass fills with brown silt. A thin man with short-cropped dark hair and a tanned, deeply wrinkled forehead, Bentes gazes around his land.
There are no signs of the deer, armadillos and pacas he used to hunt to feed his wife and 10 children.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&sid=aEmubrLsu.ro
Britain's dirty money: How the loose change in our pockets is costing the earth
This vast hole in the ground, visible from space, is the world's biggest copper mine. It supplies the Royal Mint, but is also responsible for inflicting shocking environmental damage and poisoning the local population...
By Dan Mcdougall
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1203057/Britains-dirty-money-How-loose-change-pockets-costing-earth.html
By Michael Smith and Adriana Brasileiro
July 31 (Bloomberg) -- For four decades, Edimar Bentes and his family have survived by farming tiny clearings in the jungle near their dirt-floor shack in the state of Para in the Brazilian Amazon.
On this April afternoon, Bentes, 56, squats in the driving rain and dips a glass into what just four years ago was a crystal-clear stream that provided drinking and bathing water. He frowns as the glass fills with brown silt. A thin man with short-cropped dark hair and a tanned, deeply wrinkled forehead, Bentes gazes around his land.
There are no signs of the deer, armadillos and pacas he used to hunt to feed his wife and 10 children.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&sid=aEmubrLsu.ro
Britain's dirty money: How the loose change in our pockets is costing the earth
This vast hole in the ground, visible from space, is the world's biggest copper mine. It supplies the Royal Mint, but is also responsible for inflicting shocking environmental damage and poisoning the local population...
By Dan Mcdougall
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1203057/Britains-dirty-money-How-loose-change-pockets-costing-earth.html