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New positive numbers about the world's rainforests provide lessons on how to prevent deforestation: protect, plant, and pay. Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 25%--amount of decrease in rainforest deforestation The climate is becoming increasingly unpredictable and global greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, but take heart: the destruction of the world's largest rainforests (the Amazon, Congo, and Borneo Mekong) is actually down 25%, according to a new report from ForestCarbon Asia .

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Disney Goes Hulu Disney will launch a video-streaming site for their content within a year, according CEO Bob Iger.

Sickweather is the latest effort to mine data in order to reveal how common colds--and worse--are going around your neighborhood. Like it or not, sickness often infects you and your friends

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's environment agency gave its definitive approval on Wednesday for construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, a controversial $17 billion project in the Amazon that has drawn criticism from native Indians and conservationists. The regulator, Ibama, issued licenses to the consortium in charge of Belo Monte to build the massive dam on the Xingu River, a tributary to the Amazon

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -Mariajo Uribe of Colombia shot a 6-under 66 to defeat Lindsey Wright of Australia by a stroke in the final round of the Brazil Cup on Sunday, picking up her first LPGA Tour win.

American Heather Bowie Young made eight birdies in a 6-under 66 Saturday that gave her a two-shot lead at the LPGA Tour's Brazil Cup in Rio de Janeiro.

CEOs of two breakthrough, webby businesses show Fast Company how office policies built on frankness, trust, and occasionally awkward closeness engender a culture of success. Inside the multi-million dollar video streaming giant, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar has gone to extraordinary lengths to subvert his own power: He has no office, has a makeshift desk partly built from empty boxes, and personally takes each new hire out to lunch to learn what he or she thinks the company can do better.

As businesses go global , the market for second-language acquisition continues to grow due to both increasing globalization and an increasingly diverse U.S. population

" Google hasn't gotten social right yet," said Marissa Mayer, VP of consumer products, in a recent interview . Well, company employees better get social right soon--if they want to earn a good chunk of their bonuses, says a new report.

Erika Anderson has something of a Silicon Valley pedigree. She graduated from MIT and Cornell Law School before bringing her socially conscious business plan to the Bay Area's Singularity University