It would be easy to think that the rainforest was saved, or at least, that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest is no longer one of the great crises facing a planet finally reaching consensus on the issue of global warming.

BBC: Can capitalism save the Amazon?

Minding the speeding bodies are the grown-up versions of student-body presidents, save-the-rainforest activists and no-longer-so-Young Republicans and Democrats.

BBC: Visiting Washington DC with kids

Another stunner about a potential 40% decline in the Amazonian rainforest "appears to have absolutely no scientific basis at all, " according to Roger Pielke, Jr.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: A Climate Absolution?

It is no good China planting kingdoms of eucalyptus at home while bulldozing Congo's rainforest to grow palm oil.

ECONOMIST: A special report on forests