Central Amazon News Today

Severe drought has been gripping the Amazon for several months.

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. […]

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.

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.

Taiwan is racing to contain an outbreak of invasive cane toads, which likely escaped from a black market breeder.

Diogo de Souza used to wake up at 3 a.m., stop by the house of a community member who knew about manatees, and the two began work among the carapanãs, the large Amazonian mosquitoes, as the sun came up. Sitting still in their wooden canoe under the scorching sun typical of the dry season, they […]

Case Study Geometry by Design: Contribution of Lidar to the Understanding of Settlement Patterns of the Mound Villages in SW Amazonia Authors: Abstract Recent research has shown that the entire southern rim of Amazonia was inhabited by earth-building societies involving landscape engineering, landscape domestication and likely low-density urbanism during the Late Holocene. However, the scale, timing, and intensity of human settlement in this region remain unknown due to the dearth of archaeolog...

And what can only be described as the hottest and muggiest day. i feel like im in the central amazon. if the jurors are on a lunch break theyre not coming outside. its thundering. its raining. its been like this most midday throughout this hot, muggy july trial. whats critical here is the lightning inside that courtroom. i want to do a whip around to my group who is watching this gavel to gavel. for starters, danny, im going to ask you if you look ahead to the next hour, whats the next shazam mo...