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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Felix Death Toll Washes Up on Coastline]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nicaraguan and Honduran officials have announced that upwards of 100 people are confirmed dead, and another 120 still unaccounted for after Hurricane Felix made landfall earlier this week.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0907-felix_josh_hill.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Felix: first time two Category-5 storms hit land in same season]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Felix made landfall in Nicaragua around 7:45 a.m. Eastern Time as a Category 5 storm with top winds at 160 mph (260 km/h), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0904-hurricane.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Avoided deforestation could send $38 billion to third world under global warming pact]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Avoided deforestation will be a hot point of discussion at next week's climate meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.  Already a coalition of 15 rainforest nations have proposed a plan whereby industrialized nations would pay them to protect their forests to offset greenhouse gas emissionsm.  Meanwhile, last month Brazil -- which has the world's largest extent of tropical rainforests and the world's highest rate of forest loss -- said it promote a similar initiative at the talks.  At stake: potentially billions of dollars for developing countries. When trees are cut greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere -- roughly 20 percent of annual emissions of such heat-trapping gases result from deforestation and forest degradation.  Avoided deforestation is the concept where countries are paid to prevent deforestation that would otherwise occur. Policymakers and environmentalists alike find the idea attractive because it could help fight climate change at a low cost while improving living standards for some of the world's poorest people and preserving biodiversity and other ecosystem services. A number of prominent conservation biologists and development agencies including the World Bank and the U.N. have already endorsed the idea.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1031-deforestation.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forest fires burn in Central America]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of fires are burning across Central America according to NASA satellite images and reports from the ground. Fires have been detected in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0410-central_america.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforests worth $1.1 trillion for carbon alone in Coalition nations]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[If a coalition of developing countries has its way, there could soon be new forests sprouting up in tropical regions. The group of ten countries, led by Papua New Guinea, has proposed that wealthy countries pay them to preserve their rainforests. The Coalition for Rainforest Nations argues that all countries should pay for the benefits -- from carbon sequestration to watershed protection -- that tropical rainforests provide.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sea turtles protected in Costa Rica are killed in Nicaragua]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sea turtles that receive the highest protection in Costa Rica and other neighboring countries are dying by the thousands at the hands of unregulated - and unsustainable - commercial fishing in Nicaragua, according to a study by the Bronx Zoo based Wildlife Conservation Society.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0726-wcs-sea_turtles.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nicaragua: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Nicaragua.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20nicaragua.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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