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FILTER RESULTS ►Books: Book Review: Napoleon Chagnon: Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes
In 1964, Napoleon Chagnon was a 26-year-old anthropologist at the start of his career, going to live among the Yanomamö Indians, 20,000 people living in around 250 small villages in “an unexplored pocket of the Amazon Basin.” He became one of America’s best-known anthropologists, and one of the most controversial. Show More Summary
Bianca Jagger: Deadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon
If Belo Monte and the other dams are allowed to go ahead, they will devastate the livelihoods of thousands of people among the tribes and communities in the Amazon Basin. A great part of Brazil's rich, varied cultural heritage will be lost.
34 More Hydroelectric Dams For Amazon Basin
Brazil is planning to build 34 additional hydroelectric facilities in the Amazon by 2021 in an effort to increase Brazil’s national energy output by 50% or more. Total cost for their construction is over $150 billion. Over 6,000 square kilometers of land will be flooded when the dams are finished. Show More Summary
As Amazon urbanizes, rural fires burn unchecked
Over past decades, many areas of the forested Amazon basin have become a patchwork of farms, pastures and second-growth forest as people have moved in and cleared land--but now many are moving out, in search of economic opportunities in newly booming Amazonian cities. Show More Summary
Dreaming of diamonds
We are just north of the Amazon Basin, riding a boat on the Ikabaru River. The passengers are people who buy gold and diamonds. They stop at each of the illegal mines that appear as craters on the river’s edge. They carry small weighing scales that seem very accurate, magnifying loupes, burners to melt the gold and separate the mercury, and some large spoons to collect it.
Nina Wegner: Ecuadorian Indigenous Elders Make Plea to Developed World on 11th Oil Round
In the southern Amazon basin of Ecuador, the air is filled with the sound of macaws and the distant sound of thunder. But as soon as next year, the metallic hammering of oil drills may join the chorus. Local indigenous leaders are dead-set on not letting that happen.
7 Things to Do in the Amazon River Basin
You could spend a lifetime exploring the Amazon's vast interior, much of which is inaccessible and remains unseen by human eyes, but here is a list to get you started. 7 Things to Do in the Amazon River Basin by David Jennings from Viator Travel Blog
Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI: 100 Years In The Amazon Basin
The centenary event that recalls the history of oppression, destruction and abuse that was visited on the indigenous of the region must be a chill reminder for all corporations who decide to explore the oil and gas reserves that lie beneath the surface of these lands.
Daily Headlines: October 3, 2012
Bolivia: Scientists in Bolivia have reportedly been able to use tree ring samples to more accurately measure rainfall levels in the Amazon basin. South America: The U.N.’s economic body for Latin America estimates that the regional economy this year will grow at a slower pace than initially estimated. Show More Summary
Tree rings go with the flow of the Amazon
University of Leeds-led research has used tree rings from eight cedar trees in Bolivia to unlock a 100-year history of rainfall across the Amazon basin, which contains the world's largest river system. The new study shows that the rings in lowland tropical cedar trees provide a natural archive of data closely related to historic rainfall. read more
Wetlands are the primary source of Amazon Basin methane
The Amazon basin is an important sink of carbon dioxide, but it is also a substantial source of atmospheric methane, which has 23X the short term impact of CO2 on global warming. Tropical wetlands, including those in the Amazon, areShow More Summary
New research reveals extent of poor-quality antimalarial medicines in South American countries
Rockville, Md., August 1, 2012 — Two articles recently published in Malaria Journal shed new light on the quality of antimalarial medicines circulating in countries in the Amazon Basin in South America. Researchers from the Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) program, a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Show More Summary
Fisherman Catches Testicle-Eating Fish In Illinois Lake
The pacu is native to the Amazon river basin, can grow to be three-feet long, weigh 50 pounds, has powerful jaws and teeth similar to a human, and feasts on a diet of nuts, snails and aquatic vegetation.
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Scientists reconstruct pre-Columbian human effects on the Amazon Basin
Small, shifting human populations existed in the Amazon before the arrival of Europeans, with little long-term effect on the forest. The finding overturns the idea the Amazon was a cultural parkland in pre-Columbian times with large human populations that transformed vast tracts of the landscape.
Scientists reconstruct pre-Columbian human effects on the Amazon Basin
Small, shifting human populations existed in the Amazon before the arrival of Europeans, with little long-term effect on the forest. That's the result of research led by Crystal McMichael and Mark Bush of the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Show More Summary
Scientists adjust their picture of the Amazon in the age before Columbus
The historical portrayal of the Amazon Basin's residents before 1492 has swung from the stereotype of backward savages to a vision of sophisticated stewards of the land — but a newly reported survey suggests that wide swaths of the Amazon's forests, particularly in the west …
Scientists adjust their picture of the Amazon before Columbus
The historical portrayal of the Amazon Basin's residents before 1492 has swung from the stereotype of backward savages to a vision of sophisticated stewards of the land — but a newly reported survey suggests that wide swaths of the Amazon's forests, particularly in the west …
Activists protest dam project in Amazon basin of Brazil
Text by Mario Tama
Belo Monte will be the world’s third-largest hydroelectric project and will displace up to 20,000 people while diverting the Xingu River and flooding as much as 230 square miles of rainforest. The controversial project is one of around 60 hydroelectric pr …
Amazon was not all manufactured landscape, scientist says
Population estimates for the Amazon basin just before Europeans arrived range from 2 to 10 million people. A new reconstruction of Amazonian prehistory suggests that large areas of western Amazonia were sparsely inhabited. This clashes with the belief that most of Amazonia, including forests far removed from major rivers, was heavily occupied and modified.
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