Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
See book keywords and concepts |  In the past dozen years we have visited rain forests in Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Peru, and the Yucatan; but the bulk of our time has been spent in the forests of Costa Rica and Ecuador. It is from these places that we draw most of our observations.
We have avoided using a textbook or encyclopedic approach in writing about tropical nature for two reasons. First, the ecology of tropical rain forest is still a virtually unexplored academic frontier. Some of the most fundamental biological details of this region are all but unknown. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Today, Arachis hypogaea is cultivated in all tropical and sub-tropical regions worldwide apart from the rain forests.
Production: Peanut oil is the fatty oil extracted from the seeds of Arachis hypogaea. It is extracted by means of a "cold press" method or by hexane extraction and refining.
Not To Be Confused With: Inexpensive Soya oil is sometimes added. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  There is little or no distinction made between individuals who have lived in the Andes, the tropical rain forests, or plains of Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. The Indian subcontinent thrived and flourished for thousands of years on a vegetarian diet, and so has most of the world's population. And where does ancestry begin anyway? Two thousand years ago, 100 centuries ago, or 60 million years ago? How far do we go in the bloodline of our ancestors to determine our dietary needs? | | In the same way, precious rain forests have had to give way to satisfy the demand for more meat in the world.
• To grow one pound of wheat requires only sixty pounds of water, whereas the production of one pound of meat requires a staggering 50,000 pounds of water. To produce one pound of chicken, 1,800 pounds of water are needed. Large chicken slaughtering plants, in fact, expend up to 100 million gallons of water daily, enough to supply a city of 25,000 people!
• According to research published in Chemical & Engineering News, Vol. 85, No. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
See book keywords and concepts |  Once the lords of a vast domain in eastern Chiapas, the Lacandon Maya today number only a few hundred, surviving in a pitiful remnant of what was in the past one of the New World's greatest rain forests. Nonetheless, in spite of every kind of pressure from modem-day Mexico, the Lacandon retain many cultural traditions, including culinary ones, that must hark back to Classic times. These people grow their own cacao, and prepare two kinds of drinks from it, one for ordinary consumption, and the other to be offered to their gods. | | Mexican highlanders on their chilly and cacao-less plateau; with their cacao, they must have brought in tropical products like chocolate seasonings and exotic bird feathers from the lowland rain forests.
The Maya on the Eve of the Conquest
By the 10th century AD, a new people had appeared on the Mesoamerican stage: the Toltecs. Later Aztec accounts describe them as a race of supermen, supremely capable and superbly skilled in the arts, and say that it was they who had passed on high civilization to the Aztecs who eventually replaced them as the dominant power in central Mexico. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  We're also seeing the clear-cutting of rain forests, in the Amazon especially, in order to create grazing land for cattle.
The decision to eat meat is not a solely personal decision. It doesn't just affect you. It actually affects the planet. The more meat you consume, the more land is used for meat raising and harvesting. In the case of the Amazon rainforest, it means there's less land available to support natural rain forest habitat, which is, of course, important for the oxygen production of the entire planet. |
Lynne McTaggart
See book keywords and concepts |  The health of most life in the seas depends on these lowly, single-celled creatures, and the seas, like the rain forests, represent the lungs of the Earth. As algae go, so, eventually, do we.
Being able to show that mass intention could rescue a sample of algae might demonstrate that our thoughts could combat something as potentially devastating as global warming.
On March 1, 2006,1 traveled to Germany to meet Popp and his colleagues at the IIB laboratory on Museum Island in Hombroich, west of Diissel-dorf. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Habitat: The plant is indigenous to the Amazon basin and has been introduced into other rain forests. The main area of cultivation is between Maues and Manau in Brazil.
Production: Guarana seeds are the seeds of Paullinia cupana. A preparation is also made from the ground seeds. Over a period of approximately 75 days, the pollinated flower develops a "ripe" guarana raceme, which is harvested by hand from October to December. Seeds (up to 80 per raceme) are taken out of the capsule shells, soaked for a time in water and then finally separated from the arillus. |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
See book keywords and concepts | | Academically cautious discussions about the ecology of tropical rain forests certainly serve valuable scientific ends, but they are not likely to hold the interest or pique the curiosity of anyone other than a professional biologist. Alexander Skutch, a well-known tropical naturalist, has suggested that naturalists have motives fundamentally different from those of scientists. | | But there are some exceptionally endangered rain forests in tropical America, most notably the fascinating Atlantic coastal forests in southeastern Brazil and the unique rich forests of northwestern Ecuador.
The loss of tropical rain forest seems a subject far removed from everyday life here in North America, and it has not received the attention its significance warrants. Despite the rise of the environmentalist movement in the late 1960s, economic growth and exploitation still take precedence over environmental concerns. | | We have tried to focus on phenomena that can be observed by anyone on a visit to a tropical American rain forest.
The rain forests of the New World tropics constitute so vast an area that no one can claim to be familiar with all of it. Between us we have made several dozen trips to the American tropics and have spent a total of six or seven years wandering about in various parts, but there is much that we haven't seen. | | This book grew partly out of our own clumsy initial contacts with the lowland rain forests of the New World tropics. When we first visited this realm more than a decade ago, we found little to prepare us for our initial encounter. The books and articles we read seemed polarized between exaggerated, sometimes hysterical popular accounts and dry, specialized academic prose that conveyed little of the excitement of tropical nature. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |  Range and Appearance
Muira puama is a small tree native to the rain forests of South America. It grows to about 16 feet in height and has a bark that is slightly pink in color. Its small white flowers have a fragrance reminiscent of that of jasmine.
MULLEIN
Botanical Name
Verbascum densiflorum, V. phlomoides, V. thapsus Family
Scrophulariaceae (Figwort Family)
Etymology
The genus name, Verbascum, derives from the Latin barbascum, "with beard." The species name, thap-sus, is that of an ancient town in what is now Tunisia. | | Guarana thrives in hot, damp environments, such as are found in rain forests.
GUGGULU
Botanical Name
Commiphora africana, C. tvightii (syn. C. mukul) Family
Burseaceae (Frankincense Family) Etymology
The genus name, Commiphora, derives from the Greek kommi, "gum," and phoros, "carrier. | | They are native to the tropical rain forests of South and North America, preferring warm climates with moist soil and full sun. Though most species are vines, a few are shrubs. The leaves are palmate and trilobed, and the aromatic, hermaphroditic, large, five-petaled flowers are white, with purple- and pink-tinged centers. The edible fruit is ovoid and usually orange-yellow.
P'AU D'ARCO
Botanical Name
Tabeuia spp. (syn. Tabebuia spp.), including T. impetiginosa, T. rosea, T. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts | | Today, Arachis hypogaea is cultivated in all tropical and subtropical regions worldwide except in the rain forests.
Production: Peanut oil is the fatty oil extracted from the husked seeds of Arachis hypogaea by means of a "cold press" method or by hexane extraction and refining.
Other Names: Arachis, Groundnuts, Monkey Nuts actions and pharmacology
COMPOUNDS
Fatty oil: chief fatty acids include oleic acid, linolic acid and palmitin acid. Also present in small quantities are longer-chained fatty acids such as eicosanoic acid and tetracosanoic acid. | | Habitat: The plant is indigenous to the Amazon basin and has been introduced into other rain forests. The main area of cultivation is between Maues and Manau in Brazil.
Production: Guarana seeds are the seeds of Paullinia cupana. A preparation is also made from the ground seeds. Over a period of approximately 75 days, the pollinated flower develops a "ripe" guarana raceme, which is harvested by hand from October to December. Seeds (up to 80 per raceme) are taken out of the capsule shells, soaked for a time in water and then finally separated from the arillus. |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
See book keywords and concepts | | In a single day's drive in Ecuador it is possible to pass through Andean paramos (moors at a high elevation), cloud forests, lowland rain forests, marshes, mangrove swamps, and even desert beaches. These habitats are all tropical, yet they have little in common except geographic proximity. It would be difficult to describe them all in a single short book.
The lowland forest—the jungle of common parlance—is the subject of our discussion. But there are many kinds of forest in the tropical lowlands of South and Central America. We will focus in particular on the lowland rain forest. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  These concerns magnify with every report of oil spills, disappearance of rain forests, species extinctions, and so on. For some people, the "Save the Planet" mantra sounds like a monumental mission for the individual; but if you simply think small-scale—if you merely live with a "Save the Body" mentality—you will be doing your part in the global quest for a healthier, cleaner world. And that can be a very motivating, deeply satisfying way of thinking. You can't get much more local than focusing on your own body, and it may just be the best way to start effecting change in our world at large. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  In August 2005, Indonesian rain forests were burning so intensely that they smothered the neighboring Malaysia peninsula in a choking haze, threatening public health, and raising fears for its economy.26 Malaysia sought crisis talks with its bigger neighbor as much of peninsular Malaysia, including the capital, had been shrouded in thick smog for a week, presenting the country with its worst pollution crisis since 1997, when smoke mainly from Indonesian forest fires blocked out skies across Southeast Asia. | | Of course, we will have to scrutinize sourcing of biofuels since we don't want sugarcone, soy- or other crop-based biofuels obtained from recently cleared Indonesian, Amazonian, or other precious rain forests. These would be a negative net impact that would only hurt the environment. In addition, the use of fossil fuel catalysts should be replaced, and nitric oxide emissions reduced. What's more, use of biofuels should also include much improved mpg. They are still not an excuse to continue being spendthrifts with mpg. | | At that point, the vast amounts of carbon dioxide being stored in rain forests like the Amazon will be released. This could lead to global warming increases of 1.5 degrees C, which would cause tremendous climate change. "Of course, this could be accelerated, and may be 'short-circuited' by direct human deforestation," say the researchers in the Nature article.
Wangari Maathai wanted to create a sustainable supply of fuel wood for rural African women while halting soil erosion and other threatening forms of environmental degradation. | | In contrast, we have only 750 species in all of the United States and Canada 46
The Amazon, African Congo, and Indonesian rain forests are being destroyed at staggering rates. Almost half of Earth's original forest cover is gone, much destroyed within the past three decades, according to a 1997 World Resources Institute report47
The Amazon has been described as the "lungs of our planet," because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. | | The heart accounts for less than 1 percent of the weight of the human body, yet without a healthy heart the body cannot survive. rain forests cover only around 2 percent of the Earth's surface and 6 percent of its landmass, but they store vast amounts of carbon dioxide. In a recent article in Scientific American, Stuart L. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  From Bioregions to Bioregionalism
¦¦¦¦ No sooner had biologists borrowed geographers' tools and begun to map earth's natural communities (boreal forests, temperate grasslands, tropical rain forests, and other biomes defined by their native vegetation) than some earth-centered activists began to envision new realms for civic engagement. Their "precinct" was the bioregion: a discrete area with ecological and cultural unity.
"All politics is local," said Congressman Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill. | | The effect of global warming on coral reefs—the rain forests of the ocean—is more direct. Warming waters can cause "heat shock," bleaching reefs and quickly killing them, while increased carbon dioxide in the water makes reefs more acidic and brittle. Research suggests that by the midpoint of this century, the rate of degradation of reefs will outpace their ability to self-repair, essentially killing them off.
Fortunately, such a result isn't inevitable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  We've only explored 1% of the medicinal herbs in the rain forests. Our best scientists still haven't even been able to measure or quantify or even recognize the vibrational nutritional qualities of homeopathic remedies.
We are infants, really. We are children in understanding the true causes of health and the complexities of what it takes to be a healthy person that lives in balance with our environment. We're nowhere near understanding what we need to understand in order to even call ourselves an advanced society.
And for myself, I feel like I've just barely begun this health journey. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | In a hundred years, we have lost more than half of the world's rain forests. Most of this devastion comes from logging tropical hardwoods such as teak, mahogany, and rosewood. The demand for exotic timber flooring drives deforestation—this is especially tragic because it's unnecessary. We can obtain the same gorgeous, solid, natural-wood flooring in a sustainable way—and for less money than rain forest wood —by reclaiming and reusing discarded hardwood. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts | | But even in the 1960s, scientists were telling the government that the land was not conducive to cattle ranching and that this was not a sustainable practice. By the 1980s, that prophecy had been proven correct. Cattle ranching was no longer profitable; other countries, like Brazil, in their own race to decimate, had entered the cheap beef market that American fast food had spawned and were easily going to outburn everybody else. |
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