Page 189 - Amazon River News Today

Armed police and environmental protection agents are due to launch the first operation by plane and helicopter to remove thousands of miners in Brazil’s Yanomami Indigenous territory.

The 2017 killer and rapist of British former headteacher Emma Kelty has been caught by police in Manaus, Brazil, nearly six years after he threw her body in the Amazon to be eaten by piranhas.

What led to the twentieth century’s rapid economic growth? And what are the prospects for that kind of growth to return?

In today’s newsletter: Hundreds of casualties have been reported in Turkey and bordering Syria after the quake – and the ramifications will last years

Brazilian scientist Antonio Donato Nobre has long been a student of the Amazon Rainforest. An agronomist with a master’s degree in tropical biology and a Ph.D. in Earth science, Nobre has researched the region for nearly four decades with the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Like […]

Sail World - The world's largest sailing news network; sail and sailing, cruising, boating news

The 2022-23 Globe40 is an eight-leg doublehanded round the world race in Class40s. Seven teams were at the beginning on June 26, with five teams having

Far upriver in the rainforest, the lure of rare pink river dolphins is creating jobs and promoting conservation and reconciliation after a 50-year war

Crew members in blue jumpsuits stared at computer screens that revealed their hidden target miles below: a powerful atmospheric river that was churning across the Pacific Ocean toward California.

(Reuters) - Dallas police arrested a 24-year-old man over the disappearance of two South American monkeys from the citys zoo earlier this week and charged him with six counts of