Slash and Burn Agriculture
Also known as swidden cultivation or shifting cultivation, slash-and-burn agriculture is a primitive agricultural system in which sections of forest are repeatedly cleared...
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There's a new chirp in the forest but it may be choked by the slashing and burning of trees by coca farmers, researchers said.The Gorgeted Puffleg, a rare hummingbird that boasts a plumage of viole...
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Singapore (dpa) - Slash-and-burn tactics used to clear Indonesia's
forests for palm oil plantations could trigger a "climate bomb," the
environmental group Greenpeace warned...
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GOP chaos seems to be extending down to the undercard gubernatorial scrap between John Faso and Randy Daniels. An email went out Friday from an anonymous "Randy Watch" account under the heading "Le...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has not endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate, but his son has.Rory Reid is signing on as Nevada chairman for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's preside...
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There's a new chirp in the forest but it may be choked by the slashing and burning of trees by coca farmers, researchers said.The Gorgeted Puffleg, a rare hummingbird that boasts a plumage of viole...
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Singapore (dpa) - An increasing number of childcare centres in
Singapore have cancelled all outdoor activities amid one of the worst
smoky hazes in a decade sparked by Indon...
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Jakarta (dpa) - Indonesia has leased two Russian firefighting
aircraft to tackle hundreds of man-made forest fires that have sent
choking haze across parts of South-East Asi...
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Jakarta (dpa) - Smoke from illegal land-clearing fires has
shrouded West Kalimantan province on Indonesian part of Borneo,
delaying flights from and into the region, the sta...
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Barack Obama picked up an endorsement Tuesday from filmmaker Ken Burns, who said he was disappointed in what he called the negative tone of Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign.Burns, a Walpole, N.H.,...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama, struggling to
gain ground on rival Hillary Clinton in the 2008 White House
race, faces a delicate dilemma in trying to bring down the
Democratic front-runner w...
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Slash and Burn Agriculture
Rare hummingbird discovered in Colombia
