Tag: Amazon river

• Wednesday, April 10th 2024 - 19:51 UTC

  Petrobras finds oil not far from Amazon River mouth

  

  Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras said Wednesday it had discovered a new reservoir in the ultra-deep waters of the Potiguar Basin, in the Anhangá exploratory well, located between the states of Amapá and Rio Grande do Norte.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 10:29 UTC

  Lowest rainfall in over 40 years affects Amazon basin rivers

  

  A recent study from the European Union Science Center showed that rivers in the Amazon basin have been severely affected by historic poor rainfalls, Agencia Brasil reported. The region's biodiversity has also been hit by the meteorological conditions, particularly in the headwaters of the Solimões, Purus, Juruá, and Madeira rivers (Brazil's Amazonas state) and also in parts of Peruvian and Bolivian forests.

• Thursday, December 7th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

  Oil tanker runs aground midway through Amazon River

  

  Brazilian authorities said no casualties were reported and measures to gauge the potential environmental damage were underway after the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Minerva Rita, carrying 18,000 m³ of Naphtha and 8,499 m³ of gasoline, had her hull damaged after running aground on Monday about 170 kilometers from the State's capital down the Amazon River en route from Manaus to a refinery in Itacoatiara.

• Wednesday, October 18th 2023 - 10:07 UTC

  Amazonian rivers in Brazil hit by severe drought

  

  According to reports released in Brazil Tuesday, the Solimões River has dried up and has become a desert while the Negro River in Manaus has reached historic levels of drought and nearing figures similar to those recorded during the Oct. 2010 crisis.

• Wednesday, October 4th 2023 - 10:47 UTC

  Severe drought and warm waters killing dolphins in the Amazon river basin

  

  More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in a tributary of Amazon river in Brazil this past week. Experts suspect the deaths may have been caused by severe drought and rising heat.

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 - 20:15 UTC

  Brazil to begin dredging stretches of the Amazon fluvial network because of the drought

  

  Several Brazilian ministries have joined efforts in a desperate attempt to impede the gigantic Amazon basin and its fluvial network from continuing to lose water, result of a scorching drought and insufficient rainfall.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:28 UTC

  Phillips's boat found in Amazonia river

  

  The boat British reporter Dom Phillips and local indigenist Bruno Araújo Pereira were riding when they were ambushed and killed on June 5 has been retrieved from the bottom of a river, Amazonas Civil Police announced Monday.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Record flooding in Brazil's Amazon region; half a million displace

  

  In Brazil's Amazon region the Rio Negro has swollen to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping. More than 450,000 people have been affected state-wide. Residents in Manaus, the biggest city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, were struggling to cope with severe flooding after heavy rain caused nearby rivers to swell.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  The “Last Shark” and the Amazon dolphin in the endangered species list

  

  A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in trouble showed on Thursday.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 10:30 UTC

  The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt stretches 5.592 miles, fed with rich nutrients from farms along the Amazon river

  

  Slimy, stinky brown seaweed that ruins beachgoers' vacations from Mexico to Florida may be the new normal unless Brazil halts Amazon deforestation, experts say. The culprit, called sargassum, turns clear-blue seawater a murky brown and smells like rotten eggs when it washes ashore and starts to rot.