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Amazon (River of Dreams), a 1993 song by jazz guitarist Artie Traum emblematic of the iconic river basin’s dire straits three ...
Amazon Basin Indians. ... Coronavirus gets dangerously close to isolated ‘Arrow People’ in Amazon. ... Near the Amazon fires, residents are sick, worried, and angry. Environment; ...
“People need to think about river basins or freshwater systems like a heart, a living system,” says Bernardo Caldas, from WWF-Brasil. Caldas is the co-lead author of a new study investigating ...
Transformative changes are needed to support socio-bioeconomies for people and ecosystems in the Amazon. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02467-9 Cite This Page : ...
People living along the dried-up rivers have had to carry drinking water on their shoulders Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have reached their lowest on record amid a ...
Field Museum scientists learn about biodiversity, conservation in Amazon Basin. ... "It is our privilege to be there, working alongside people who have known these forests for generations," he said.
CHICAGO — Indigenous people in the Amazon may have been deliberately creating fertile soil for farming for thousands of years. At archaeological sites across the Amazon River basin, mysterious ...
South America’s Amazon River Basin is currently undergoing a severe drought, with water levels in the river lower than they have been in the past 120 years. A boat travels through a section of ...
Bernardino and Owuor’s work in the Amazon embodies a major goal of the overall expedition: to create sustainable, community-based management of natural resources across the Amazon River Basin ...
It's not until around 2,000 years ago, however, that they reach their peak, says Robinson. That's the average age of the black deposits that are found over a wide area across the Amazon basin.
In 2023, the Amazon basin suffered its most severe drought in at least 45 years ... The low water levels in the region's main rivers are also severely impacting the lives of local people, ...