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Mystery as a man spots an anaconda like creature lurking in the river Thames in London. Taking to Reddit he shared a snap of what appeared to be a reptilian creature peeking out of the murky water.

"Atmospheric rivers" shown to contribute huge chunk of monthly rainfall in west and north.

They’ve driven some of our most damaging deluges: now scientists have gained a clearer idea just what influence moisture-packed ”atmospheric rivers“ have o

A man posted a photo of a snake-like 'creature' in the River Thames

Estimates indicate that the national oil production will increase from the current 3 million to 5.4 million barrels per day by 2029

Acoustic tracking technology could feed into conservation projects in the Amazon and beyond. Acoustic tracking technology could feed into conservation projects in the Amazon and beyond.

Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia all invested in major highway building initiatives in the last half of the twentieth century, motivated in part to project sovereignty over their Amazonian provinces. These areas had poorly defined borders and societies remembered the trauma of the rubber boom, when Brazilian agents encroached upon their territories or when they […]

The Southern Amazon has experienced massive deforestation, coupled with the degradation of soil and water resources. The forest frontiers at the remote corners of the Brazilian highway system have remained isolated and impoverished, but the agricultural frontiers and consolidated landscapes of Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia and Tocantins are relatively prosperous. Their rural economies generate […]

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 24 (IPS) - At a meeting with European and Latin American leaders in Brussels this July, Brazil’s President Lula da Silva reiterated the bold commitment he had made in his first international speech as president-elect, when he attended the COP27 climate summit in November 2022: bringing Amazon deforestation down to zero by 2030.

An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels