Appetite of Amazonian cities impact wildlife up to 1,000 km away
Lots of mouths to feed.
Tag: Amazon
Book review: ‘The Power of Networks: Six Principles that connect our Lives’
A great introduction to how networks work.
The Amazon Stonehenge: Drones discover hundreds of ancient earthworks in the basin
Large, mysterious earthworks built thousands of years ago were discovered in the Amazon basin.
First images of the Amazonian reef released by Greenpeace
More like Amazingonian reef, am I right?
Scientists find 1,000-km-long coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon
It's a true "Wow!" moment.
An Amazonian tribe is defending their forests from illegal loggers with bow and arrow
Motivated by the love for their native lands and armed with bows, arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, an indigenous ...
Amazon holds contest to see who’s the best robot that can replace a warehouse worker
Over the weekend, Amazon - a company that employs more than 50,000 people in its warehouses alone - organized a ...
Dust from the Sahara Desert Fertilizes the Amazon’s Forests
The Sahara Desert and the Amazon area have few things in common - one is a dry, barren wasteland, while ...
Uncontacted Amazon tribe raids neighboring village; raises fear of retaliation
The past couple of months have been really tense for the people who are often times labeled as coming from ...
Members of a previously uncontacted Amazonian tribe become infected with influenza
Three members of a recently contacted tribe walk with weapons in hand in Brazil. (c) FUNAI A few months ago, ...
Google Earth used to track uncontacted Amazonian tribe
An Amazonian isolated village, with natives in the background. Some of them can be seen with their bows readied to ...
New Arapaima species discovered in Amazon: a giant fish that can breath air
A diver shares a tank with an adult arapaima fish at an aquarium in Manaus, Brazil. Known as the pirarucu ...
Finnish archaeologist digs up ancient civilization in Brazil
Archaeologist and professor Martti Pärssinen from the University of Helsinki has made a sensational find: he found signs of a ...
Mysterious engineering insect builds white-picket fence to protect egg nest
While browsing reddit the other day, I came across a most peculiar finding. One of the users, Decapod73 or Tony Alexander in ...
Ecuador plans to move ahead controversial drilling efforts in the Amazon
An aerial view of the Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador's northeastern jungle. Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP Yasuni National Park to be ...
How roads could help protect the environment instead of destroying it
Rapidly expanding road networks are causing massive direct and indirect damage to forests but proper infrastructure planning and implementation could ...
Scientists discover vividly colored lizards in the Peruvian Amazon
There is still unbelievably much we have yet to discover from the Amazon. Now, researchers have uncovered two new species ...
Apollo 11 rocket engines may have been recovered from Atlantic Ocean floor
A crewman sprays water over a recovered injector plate. (c) Bezos Expeditions Jeff Bezos is an extraordinary individual whom I ...
Amazon trees will withstand even the most pessimistic of global warming scenarios
Researchers from the University of Michigan and University College London have found that trees in the Amazon forest will be able to withstand even ...
Loggers burned Amazon 8 year old tribe girl alive, as part of a campaign to force indigenous population out of the land
This is truly one of the days when you could feel ashamed to be human. According to reports, loggers in ...
Underground river discovered 4km beneath the Amazon – but it’s not quite a river
Starting yesterday, the whole world has been abuzz about the giant river discovered 4 kilometers beneath the Amazon, ranging from ...
Vietnam War bio-weapon used today for Amazon deforestation
Of all the despicable things I thought possible going on around the Amazonian Rainforrest, using an extremely powerful chemical agent ...
