Word: rainforest
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ostentation of the 1980s vanished; hello, '90s humility. Good intentions became fashionable once more -- even marketable. Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch ice cream was a best seller...
However, environmentalists are anything but happy. Local conservation groups, along with such national organizations as the Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, call the geothermal project unsafe and unnecessary. Moreover, they argue, the drilling rigs, power plants, transmission lines and roads in the plan will harm or destroy tracts of the precious Wao Kele O Puna rain forest. Even native Hawaiian religious groups oppose the scheme, claiming that it will rob the volcano-dwelling goddess Pele of body heat...
...acres of forest land in Costa Rica. On their way to and from school, they collect old newspapers and empty aluminum cans for sale to a recycling plant at 63 cents per kg. The proceeds, augmented by donations from parents and neighbors, are sent to the International Children's Rainforest Program, which buys and preserves virgin parkland at the rate of $50 an acre. So far, Jiro and his friends have raised more than...
...said good-bye to the rainforest from the top of a ladder next to our camp. It had become my favorite perch, and I could look out at the forest and the sinking...
They disappeared behind the trees as I stepped into the van. But I could still hear the cockatoo screeching as we drove from the rainforest and down the mountain to civilization...