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DIED Renato Dulbecco, 97, a virologist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for his work on viruses that led to the discovery that genetic mutations cause cancer...
Rain Forest for Ransom
The canoes slip from the dock, the morning mist still clinging to Anangucocha Lake in eastern Ecuador's Yasuni National Park. The Amazon rain forest has yet to...
Amazonia: What’s Happening to the World’s Biggest Rain Forest?
I’d say you have to see the Amazon for yourself to understand how vast it is, but I’ve been there—and even I can’t imagine it. The rain forest is more than 2...
Rain Forest for Ransom?
In this week’s international edition of TIME—which is thankfully not behind the paywall—I have a piece on Ecuador’s innovative plan to forswear drilling for oil...
Rio: Birds of a Fabulous Feather
It's a toga party at the Tiki Room. In the first minutes of Rio, the new animated feature from 20th Century Fox's Blue Sky studio, the 3-D screen explodes in a...
Malaysia: A Coal Plant in Paradise
There are worse places to be than in the eco-paradise of Sabah, a state on the northeast tip of Malaysian Borneo. To one side is the Coral Triangle, home to the...
Gulf Oil Threatens an Underwater 'Rain Forest'
The WeatherBird II is not a pretty ship. A boxy, businesslike, 194-ton vessel, it prowls the waters off St Petersburg, Fla. where it competes for attention with...
Rain Forests Lose Out in Senate's New Climate Bill
Much of the handwringing by greens over the new climate and energy bill introduced in the Senate on May 12 has focused on the overtly controversial aspects of...
A Tree-Hugging Tea.
As a college student in california in the early '90s, Alex Pryor always kept some of his native Argentina with him. His link to home was a beverage made from the...
Study: Economic Boost of Deforestation Is Short-Lived
For the people who live in the Brazilian rain forest, the perfectly logical thing to do is cut it down. Large swaths of the rain forest are burned or chopped...
Prince Charles Goes Viral to Save the Rain Forests
He doesn't write e-mails or — perish the thought — use a BlackBerry or iPhone. Indeed, the Prince of Wales still deploys a fountain pen to scratch out letters...
Beauty
Amala Taking its name from Sanskrit for "most pure," this line of skin and body products is made entirely from whole plant ingredients and contains no...
The New Age of Extinction
There are at least 8 million unique species of life on the planet, if not far more, and you could be forgiven for believing that all of them can be found in...
Green Banks: Paying Countries to Keep their Trees
Right now in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, a day's drive over rutted tracks northeast of the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, they're counting the trees...
King of the Hill.
It's just two days before its official reopening, and the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco looks like the old MGM lot back when they used to...
Rain Forest Tribesmen Just Want to Be Left Alone
Nine ironwood spears protruded from the lifeless body of Luis Castellanos when it was found in March, near a jungle road. Castellanos, 37, was the third poacher...
On the Market: a Whole Rain Forest
How much is a rain forest worth? Until recently the answer was: virtually nothing. A tropical rain forest provides habitat for untold species of animals and...
Life on the Amazon River
Most travelers associate Brazil with the Amazon and Peru with the Andes. Yet, some two-thirds of Peru is actually covered by dense Amazonian rain forest. Since...
Rio de Janeiro
Even though Narciso Rodriguez lives and works in New York City, he finds much of his design inspiration on trips to Rio de Janeiro, where he goes to unwind. In...
A Monkey Advocate Lands Behind Bars
Marc Van Roosmalen is a world-renowned primatologist and environmentalist who discovered five new species of monkey in the Brazilian Amazon. He was named a...
