Exploring the Amazon River
Overview
Portuguese captain Pedro de Teixeira (1587-1641) led the first full-length upstream exploration of the Amazon River in 1637. Taking almost two years to complete, th...
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A whale that got lost and swam some 1,300 kilometers (810 miles) up the Amazon River died after a failed effort to capture it and transport it back to the ocean, an environmental official said Wedn...
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A former farmer from Ecuador went from battling oil companies in the Amazon to rubbing elbows Saturday with the world's musical elite, a journey he hopes will bring attention to his environmental l...
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Brazil announced Friday it will create a landholder registry and send 700 more federal police to the Amazon River basin in a new effort to monitor and prevent deforestation in the environmentally s...
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After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River Saturday that could set a world record for distance _ so...
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An environmental group said Thursday some of the world's greatest natural treasures are threatened with destruction because of global warming _ from the Great Barrier Reef to the Amazon rain forest...
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Slovenian Martin Strel approached the halfway point of his attempt to swim the entire length of the Amazon river Thursday, trying to avoid severe burns, alligators and the dreaded bloodsucking toot...
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Regulators granted preliminary approval Monday to a massive Amazon dam project praised by business leaders as a way to prevent possible energy shortages but criticized by environmentalists as a pot...
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A crew of Brazilian fishermen was captured on video killing 83 dolphins and joking about their illegal haul, Brazil's Ibama environmental protection agency said Tuesday.The video obtained by an Iba...
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Washington/Brussels (dpa) - Much of the lower 1,100 kilometres of
the Amazon River's ecosystem face replacement by savanna by mid-
century at the current rate of global warm...
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Nov 28 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on December 5 since 1900: 1917 - German and Russian delegates signed an armistice at
Brest-Litovsk; peace negotiations be...
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Exploring the Amazon River
Whale that got lost and swam up Amazon River found dead
