Brazil sold extraction rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday, at an auction slammed by ...

Indigenous people and environmental activists protested outside a luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro where the auctions to sell oil exploration rights took place.

Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in ...

The no-contact principle was then included in the country’s Federal Constitution in 1988, which set new standards that ...

The river we are talking about is called Rio Negro. Rio Negro flows through the Amazon rainforest in South America and passes through Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. According to available ...

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“[It] was intended to give people a snapshot of what it would look like walking along the Amazon River in South America,” said Scott Maddox, the zoo’s chief operating officer. “We’ve got habitats ...

the team determined that the Amazon river really did flow in the opposite direction in the past. That team put the reversal down to a highland area in northeastern South America, which formed ...

The last of three maps ... Amazon, largest and second longest river*on the Globe. The 20 United States of Brazil comprise an area greater than that of the 48 United States of North America.

In pursuit of natural resources and refuge, the group is penetrating distant territories and bringing some of South America ... maps by Júlia Ledur. Mapping and graphics sources: HYDROSHEDS ...