Page 166 - Amazon River News Today

Turquoise sea lapping on white shores, spectacular mountain peaks or finely presented food - our writers weigh in on what makes a country truly beautiful.

Petrobras may relocate a rig at the mouth of the Amazon River Basin if does not get environmental clearance to operate there.

Shocked victims in Brazil are understood to have been playing in a stream on May 1 during the Labour Day holiday when they suddenly felt sharp pains on their feet and legs.

The 5,000-mile-wide clump of sargassum seaweed is starting to wash up on beaches across Florida and the Caribbean and is releasing toxic gases as it rots.

Neves has studied human occupation of the Amazon for 30 years and found evidence of rice, manioc and palm tree cultivation dating back thousands of years.

Yanomami, also spelled Yanomamö or Yanoamö, South American Indians, speakers of a Xirianá language, who live in the remote forest of the Orinoco River basin in southern Venezuela and the northernmost reaches of the Amazon River basin in northern Brazil. In the early 21st century the Yanomami probably numbered about 32,000 individuals throughout their range. The Yanomami practice slash-and-burn agriculture and live in small, scattered, semipermanent villages. They supplement their crop of pla...

The brown algae is in the news today because of a massive bloom occurring in the Caribbean Sea that has made its way to Florida.

In what’s become an annual occurrence, seaweed has begun washing ashore from Miami south to Key West. But ...

A combination of negative economic data and thin trading in oil markets led to a sharp drop in crude prices Tuesday.

From indigenous women in Africa, to a Ukrainian girl fleeing from war, a new exhibit on St. Peter's Square wants to highlight women from the peripheries.