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How to Help Brazilian Farmers Save the Amazon

A new investment standard would reward efforts to protect tropical forests. By Daniel Nepstad Dr. Nepstad is a forest ecologist who has worked in the Brazilian Amazon for more than 30 years. When I moved to the Amazon “Wild West” town of Paragominas in northern Brazil in 1984 as a young scientist studying forest recovery …

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Baltic index falls to over 6-month low as vessel rates drop

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Dec 23 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index continued its losing streak on Monday, falling to its lowest in more than six months as demand across vessel segments dropped. * The Baltic index, which tracks rates for capesize, panamax and supramax vessels that ferry dry bulk commodities, fell 20 points, or 1.8%, …

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