Page 99 - Amazon River News Today

Local resident says,

The low flow of rivers in northern Brazil has prevented navigation, the only way to reach thousands of small municipalities that are about to run out of water and food

New research combines a remote sensing system with a predictive spatial distribution model and concludes that between 10,272 and 23,648 large-scale archaeological sites remain to be discovered in the Amazon jungle

Severe drought and record-high water temperatures are thought to have contributed to the deaths of over 100 river dolphins in the Brazilian Amazon.

Climate change has not really taken a deep bite out of humanity yet, says Dr. Marshall Brain. Here's why he believes nothing "truly catastrophic" has happened to humanity because of the effects of climate change—yet—and a deep dive at the catastrophes that could be on the horizon.

Over 100 dolphins found dead in the Brazilian Amazon over the past week due to historic drought and soaring temperatures.

At least 120 Amazon river dolphins have died in the Brazillian Amazon rainforest amid a scorching drought.

The macroeconomic hypothesis that infrastructure investments stimulate economic growth assumes that these physical assets overcome a logistical or systemic constraint on production. In practice, this requires for individual projects to be the subject to an objective feasibility analysis, are priced fairly, and have been approved after the full evaluation of their social and environmental impacts. […]

The ecological predicament in the Amazon is at a tipping point. I went to learn from those on the ground pushing back against the ecocide.

The dolphins may have lost 10 percent of their population, which could threaten the survival of the species