July 20th, 2010
Perhaps the most striking thing about flying over the Amazon rainforest is how untouched it looks; there’s no checkered quilt of farmland or veins of highway. From horizon to horizon it’s nothing but an impossibly vast sea of green, inspiring the same sense of minuteness one might feel gazing at the Milky Way. At that height, the Amazon is as impressive and humbling as anything I’ve seen, seeming to be one giant breathing thing, untouched. Yet deep within this forest <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/oil-and-gas-exploration-threatens-peruvian-amazon…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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