Tag: Amazon river

• 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.