A collective work titled "Archaeology of the Amazon" offers a broad overview of traces left by thirteen millennia of human ...

As global heat records are obliterated, scientists conclude it’s a signal the planet is likely on track to breach the Paris ...

Korap Munduruku is the president of the Pariri Indigenous Association, an organization that supports the communities in the Tapajós River region in Brazil. She became the first woman coordinator of ...

Virgin River is Netflix's biggest wonder. With six seasons in (and the seventh on the way), it's the longest-running drama on Netflix, which is commendable, considering they tend to cancel shows ...

Over the Christmas period, season 6 of Virgin River dropped on Netflix, and it was one to behold. Bookmarked by the big wedding between Jack and Mel, the series remains incredibly popular for Netflix, ...

For example, in 2016, after many indigenous demonstrations, IBAMA, the environmental agency, suspended the building of a large dam on the Tapajós River – São Luiz do Tapajós – which would ...

South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) is an informal network working on issues related to rivers, communities and large scale water infrastructure like dams: their environmental ...

Concentration of trace elements (CTEs) is a significant environmental concern worldwide. This study assessed CTE levels in the Lower Indus River (LIR) by analyzing CTEs in water, sediments, tissues of ...

Slightly over 1,900 kilometers from Brasilia, Brasil Novo is one of the nine municipalities in the Xingu and Tapajós river basin, in the state of Pará, which have benefited from infrastructure ...

BRAZIL’s Federal Audit Court (TCU) has received a concession proposal for the Ferrogrão project, a new 933km railway that will connect Sinop, Mato Grosso, with the port of Miritituba, across the ...

Freshwater ecosystems contain a diverse mixture of material and biological organisms linked to both the landscape through which water has previously flowed and processes occurring in situ (Ward et al.