Page 213 - Amazon River News Today

An illegal dirt road ripping through protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon is now just a few miles shy of connecting two of the worst areas of deforestation in the region, according to satellite images and accounts from people familiar with the area.

Editor’s note: Dean Jacobs is a Fremont man, world traveler, photographer and author, who is writing a series of columns about his trip to Ecuador. There is a good reason

An illegal dirt road ripping through protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon is now just a few miles shy of connecting two of the worst areas of deforestation in the region, according to satellite images and accounts from people familiar with the area. If the road is completed it will turn a large area of…

Sea cows have inhabited the shores of every continent except Antarctica, and multiple species have coexisted during periods.

Researchers have assembled the most complete story yet of the ancestry of manatees, including a 24,000-pound version that once swam in the Bering Sea.

DURHAM, N.C. — Zoologists refer to manatees and dugongs as “sea cows” but a simple internet search might return the more playful moniker “floaty potatoes.” Now, imagine a 24,000-pound version, twice

An illegal road in the Brazilian Amazon in a protected area of the forest could accelerate deforestation of the surrounding areas, as the road provides easy access for loggers.

Atmospheric rivers that bombard the Western U.S. from time to time could result in as much as $3.2 billion in flood damage by century's end, according to

An illegal dirt road ripping through protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon is now just...

‘(This) brings the risk of an irreversible breaking of the Amazon rainforest’