Traveling from the heart of the Amazon rainforest to the Tropical savannah climate of the Brazilian capital of Brasilia offers a lesson in contrasts -- patches of forest and deforestation are replaced with monolithic white government buildings, poor villagers of the Amazon with well-dressed politicians and businesspeople.

Thousands of years ago, a tribe of indians settled near modern day Santarem, nestled on the banks of where the Tapajós River joins Amazon in the state Pará, Brazil, living harmoniously in the region's lush rainforest.

Image: Signs in Yosemite Warn About Bears Seeking Food in Cars, via Flickr

It was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that led to the demise of Ben Story's car. A hungry bear managed to get into the car looking for the morsel Ben left on the back seat.

Image credit: Friends of the Earth UK

What's a herd of cows doing on the London Underground? Having enlisted singing cows to help fix the food chain, Friends of the Earth UK has now launched an underground (sorry!) "Moovement" to demand rainforest free meat and dairy.

photo: iangbl via flickr

Good news and bad news coming out of the think tank Chatham House today: According to their new report, Illegal Logging and Related Trade, the amount of timber chopped down and produc

Mangroves in Kiribati, photo: UNEP

The United Nations Environment Programme and the Nature Conservancy have released the first global assessment in a decade of the state of the world's mangrove forests and the prognosis isn't par

photo: Eyes on the Forest

Echoing a recent Greenpeace report on the deforestation in Indonesia by the paper industry, Eyes on the Forest is highlighting the actions of Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL in illegally clearing forests and undermining governm

Photo via TomekY

If you thought unscrupulous logging practices were the only threat to the world's largest rainforest, then think again.