Great seamanship: A tale of an Amazon Delta voyage
The Five Year Voyage is a race against time and tide across the mouth of the Amazon for Stephen Ladd in his 21ft Herreshoff Sea Pear ketch.
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Riders of the lost waves: Surfing, and saving, Brazil's pororocas
Surf enthusiasts and volunteers are mapping out hotspots of a spectacular form of surfing on Brazil’s northern coast, in a bid to both preserve the practice and help boost tourism in coastal communities. For years, surfers would descend on the mouth of the Araguari River in Brazil’s Amapá state. Their goal: to ride the pororoca, […]
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A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters
Based on the best scientific data available, the unprecedented Amazon Water Impact Index draws together monitoring and research data to identify the most vulnerable areas of the Brazilian rainforest. According to the index, 20% of the 11,216 Brazilian Amazon microbasins have an impact considered high, very high or extreme; half of these watersheds are affected by hydroelectric plants.
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