U.S. Debut: Holistic Health And Beauty From The Rainforest - New Book Reveals Closely Guarded Malaysian Health and Beauty Secrets Introducing the World to Time-Honored Tradition of Ramuan

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Ramuan , a little-known secret to unlocking health, beauty and overall wellbeing from ancient Malaysian culture, will be revealed to a global audience for the first time this summer with the launch of a new book, Health and Beauty from the...

From the Amazon Rainforest to a Smoothie Near You, Planet Smoothie Expands Superfoods Menu Selection

ATLANTA, July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Planet Smoothie, home of the original "pure" Acai smoothie, announces today its partnership with Sambazon, the Acai global leader, to launch three new smoothie flavors in a limited-time offer: Amazon Energy, Amazon Cherry, and Jungle Fruit Fuzion. Superfood smoothie...

Cleaner Air May Threaten Amazon Rainforest

Reducing sulphur dioxide emissions linked to increasing risk of drought, scientists say WEDNESDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) -- Cleaner air may actually threaten the Amazon rainforest, according to Brazilian and British climate scientists. They claim that a reduction in coal burning...

Explorer's Bounty Unveils New Line of Tribal Stone Crackers

...e debut of its new Tribal Stone Crackers. Launching in July 2009, Tribal Stone Crackers are the first snack of their kind in the world to be made from rainforest Alliance Certified Yuca. In addition to being 100% certified organic and authentic, these artisan-baked crackers have no added sweeteners, are gluten ...

Next Generation Waters - Nuu

... Nuu rainforest Spring Water launches in the United States with several major distributors ...st premium quality water. Next Generation Waters first introduced this rainforest Spring Water in the Republic of Panama during the last quarter of 2008. Th...

Endangered Great Ape Finds Safe Haven

... New rainforest reserve protects more than 1,000 bonobos and benef...e state of Rhode Island, the 1,847 mi2 (4,875 km2) rainforest reserve delivers essential ecosystem services to t...ommunity-driven initiative, which protects a vital rainforest and rare and endemic species, including the bonobo...

Sambazon, World Leader in Acai, Stands up for the Amazonian Fruit's True Nutritional Properties

...nd thousands of grocery chains, specialty stores and juice bars across the country. Sambazon's market-driven conservation business model in the Amazon rainforest promotes forest stewardship, creates new jobs, improves living conditions and educational opportunities for thousands of small family farmers through ...

Abbott Successfully Completes Tender Offer for Shares of Advanced Medical Optics

...OTT PARK, Ill., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abbott today announced the successful completion of the tender offer by its wholly owned subsidiary rainforest Acquisition Inc. to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Advanced Medical Optics (AMO). The tender offer expired at midnight Eas...

Abbott Receives European Commission Clearance on Acquisition of Advanced Medical Optics

...ffer to Purchase, dated Jan. 27, 2009, and in connection with the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated Jan. 11, 2009, entered into by and among Abbott, rainforest Acquisition Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Abbott, and AMO, which Abbott and AMO announced on Jan. 12, 2009. About Abbott Abbott is a gl...

AdEx Media Introduces Acai Alive(TM)

...e and on TV appearances including the Oprah show. The acai berry (pronounced "ah-sigh-ee") is a small grape-sized berry that grows in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. The berry is packed with a large amount of free-radical fighting antioxidants and is considered to have the best overall nutritional value...

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Bolivian rainforest study suggests feeding behavior in monkeys and humans have ancient, shared roots

Behavioural ecologists working in Bolivia have found that wild spider monkeys control their diets in a similar way to humans, contrary to what has been thought up to now. Rather than trying to maximize their daily energy intake, the monkeys tightly regulate their daily protein intake, so that it s...

Live-in domestics: Mites as maids in tropical rainforest sweat bee nests

Mites not only inhabit the dust bunnies under the bed, they also occupy the nests of tropical sweat bees where they keep fungi in check. Bees and their young are healthier when mites live-in, report researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the University of Texas ...

Biofuels boom could fuel rainforest destruction, Stanford researcher warns

Farmers across the tropics might raze forests to plant biofuel crops, according to new research by Holly Gibbs, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment. "If we run our cars on biofuels produced in the tropics, chances will be good that we are effectively bur...

New rainforest mapping technology gets huge support

Stanford, CAA lack of technology needed to explore and monitor vast regions of tropical rain forest has been a critical bottleneck for Earth scientists, conservationists, and forest managers. As a result, we have limited understanding of the composition and function of these forests and how they a...

Latin American Science Initiative Puts Tropical Rainforest Diversity Online

Tropical plant guidebooks are written largely by scholars from museums and universities in the U.S. and Europe where plant collections are housed. Researchers and conservationists in countries where the plants were originally collected may not have access to tools for understanding some of the mos...

Diversity of trees in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest defies simple explanation

Trees in a hyper-diverse tropical rainforest interact with each other and their environment to create and maintain diversity, researchers report in the Oct. 24 issue of the journal Science . This study was conducted in the Yasuni forest dynamics plot of the Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecua...

University of Leicester professor adds new perspective to rainforest debate

The Head of Geography at the University of Leicester has addressed an international conference in Brazil on the use of modern radar technology for monitoring the rainforests. Professor Heiko Balzter told 200 scientists and foresters in Brazil "We need advanced radar satellites for monitoring tr...

Tropical rainforest and mountain species may be threatened by global warming

STORRS, CT Contrary to conventional wisdom, tropical plant and animal species living in some of the warmest places on Earth may be threatened by global warming, according to an article by University of Connecticut Ecologist Robert K. Colwell and colleagues in this week's (Oct. 10) issue of Scien...

International workshop to address capacity building for rainforest leaders

From the silent victims of climate change, rain forest peoples in Latin America are preparing themselves to have an active voice in international decision-making on climate issues. A major landmark in preparing for the dialogue with authorities of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will...

Single-largest biodiversity survey says primary rainforest is irreplaceable

As world leaders prepare to discuss conservation-friendly carbon credits in Bali and a regional initiative threatens a new wave of deforestation in the South American tropics, new research from the University of East Anglia and Brazils Goeldi Museum highlights once again the irreplaceable importan...

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Oil palm plantations are no substitute for tropical rainforests, a new study shows

...s a future agent of deforestation is enormous', the study says. Most of the suitable land left is within the last remaining large areas of tropical rainforest in Central Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Where oil palm has replaced tropical forest the impact on wildlife depends on what species surviv...

DOE JGI plumbs termite guts to yield novel enzymes for better biofuel production

...lding blocks of wood. The tiny insects that gave up their stomach contents to advance the frontiers of science were isolated on a safari into the rainforest of Costa Rica, the world's geographic hotbed of biodiversity for termites, by co-author Jared Leadbetter of Cal Tech, first author Falk Warnecke of DO...

Verenium Explores Bacterial Genes Inside Termite Guts to Understand How Wood is Broken Down and Converted to Energy

...ship with INBio, Verenium created an environmental library of DNA collected from the wood-feeding "higher" termite species, Nasutitermes, found in the rainforest of Costa Rica. The DNA was then sent to JGI for sequencing. "The degradation of wood components, such as cellulose and xylan, requires a battery of ...

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Alfred Russel Wallace

...allace, together with another naturalist, Henry Walter Bates (whom he had met in Leicester ), left for Brazil to collect specimens in the Amazon rainforest , with the express intention of gathering facts in order to solve the riddle of the origin of species. Unfortunately, a large part of his collection ...

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Food web

...fuel needed to ... The food web is the consumer relationship between rainforest animals and plants. ... Food Web . Protection from Predators. rainforest Animal Printouts ... The food web can be viewed not only as a networ...