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Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Knights of Columbus Sends Oxygen to COVID-Stricken Amazon Region February 12, 2021 GMT (PRNewsfoto/Knights of Columbus) NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to an urgent request from Archbishop Leonardo Steiner, O.F.M., archbishop of Manaus, Brazil, the Knights of Columbus has sent more than $200,000 in concentrated oxygen and personal oxygen concentrator devices to the Amazon regio...

Experts say that illegal gold mining has destroyed the ecology of the area, an issue which the local authorities ignore in exchange for handsome bribes. Gold mining in the area, a lot of which is in a protected park, is growing by 242 hectares per year according to an NGO. Mining also leads to deforestation in the area and the mercury being used for gold mining pollutes the waters. Experts deem the damage being done in the area by pollution as ‘irreversible’.  Deforestation due to gold min...

Stunning NASA photo shows gold Peruvian Amazon rivers — but theres a dark backstory By Jack Guy, CNN enablePagination: false endIndex: (CNN) — All that glitters is not gold, the saying goes, as proven by a new photo taken from the International Space Station (ISS). What appear to be rivers of gold running through the Amazon rainforest in Madre de Dios state in eastern Peru are in fact prospecting pits, likely left by independent miners, according to NASAs Earth Observatory, which published...

Stunning NASA photo shows gold Peruvian Amazon rivers -- but theres a dark backstory CNN 12th February, 2021 12:13:02 All that glitters is not gold, the saying goes, as proven by a new photo taken from the International Space Station (ISS). What appear to be rivers of gold running through the Amazon rainforest in Madre de Dios state in eastern Peru are in fact prospecting pits, likely left by independent miners, according to NASAs Earth Observatory, which published the photo taken by one of its...

Source: Amazon Conservation Association Nearly real-time satellite imagery analysis has been spotting and stymying illegal gold mining activity in the Amazon rainforest. The mining sector is a substantial contributor to forest ecosystem destruction, and a recent report suggests the world is behind on international goals to end global deforestation by 2030. The Amazon Conservation Associations Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project, or MAAP, uses satellite imagery to flag potential deforestati...

Jeri Clausing American Queen Steamboat Company and Avalon Waterways have updated their health and safety protocols to include vaccine and testing requirements for guests. But other lines dont seem to be in any rush to follow suit. And given the uncertainty over whether and how Americans will be able to travel more freely, they certainly have time to mull their options. Most European river operators say they wont be able to sail until at least April, and most say they expect it could be summer b...

High above the Peruvian Amazon, the forests beam with gold. While the glittering pits might look pretty from low-Earth orbit, the image actually highlights a worrying problem back home on planet Earth.  An astronaut on board the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of gold prospecting pits while drifting above eastern Peru on Christmas Eve 2020. Perfectly hit by the Sun’s beams, the gold-rich pits beam back with a radiant reflection.  As explained by NASA Earth Observat...

What appear to be rivers of gold running through the Amazon rainforest in Madre de Dios state in eastern Peru are in fact prospecting pits, likely left by independent miners, according to NASAs Earth Observatory, which published the photo taken by one of its astronauts.

Peru in COVID-19 lockdown as new Brazilian variant exposes murderous “herd immunity” policy Peru’s government imposed another two-week lockdown on January 31 in an attempt to counter a renewed collapse of the country’s health care system. Family members of COVID-19 patients have been left waiting in the streets for up to three days to fill life-saving oxygen cylinders, and the daily death toll has risen to over 180 in a country of just 32 million inhabitants. Late January figures show 6...

The United States Donates 70 Medical Oxygen Balloons to Communities in the Peruvian Amazon Format As part of the cooperation of the United States Government to Peru in the fight against covid19, the National Commission for Development and Life without Drugs (DEVIDA) delivered 70 medical oxygen balloons, donated by USAID in alliance with Partners in Health, to 17 health centers in the regions of Huánuco, San Martín and Ucayali in the Peruvian Amazon that have been severely hit by the pandemic....