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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New species of river dolphin discovered in the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have identified a new species of river dolphin in the Bolivian Amazon according to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS).  The announcement was made at a conservation workshop in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0430-dolphin.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Overfishing may hurt Amazon forest trees]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Overfishing is reducing the effectiveness of seed dispersal by fish in the Brazilian Pantanal, reports <i>Nature</i>.  The research suggests that fishing practices can affect forest health.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Controversial dam in the Amazon gets Brazilian go-ahead]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian government has awarded rights to build and operate a controversial R$10bn hydroelectric power plant on the Madeira river in the Amazon rainforest near the border with Bolivia, according to FT.com.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Piranhas originated when Amazon was flooded by seawater]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[South America's piranha family of fish -- notorious as eaters of flesh -- can be traced back to a single ancestor which dispersed when the Amazon was flooded by seawater some five million years ago, report researchers from the Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement (IRD).  Today piranhas are exclusively freshwater fish found from the Orinoco River basin in Venezuela to the Paraná in Argentina.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1204-piranha.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Whale stranded 1,000 miles up the Amazon river]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An 18-foot minke whale was found beached on a sandbar 1,000 miles up a tributary of the Amazon river, reported Globo television and the Associated Press.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1117-whale.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[$11B Amazon rainforest dam gets initial approval]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian government has given preliminary go-ahead on a massive Amazon dam project that environmentalists and scientists say could be a potential ecological disaster.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0710-madeira.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA maps newly proposed source of the Amazon River]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[NASA released a map showing the newly proposed source of the Amazon River, a change that would make it the longest river in the world. Last month Brazilian researchers proposed Mount Mismi, a snow-covered mountain in southern Peru as the source of the Amazon River.  Previously, the generally accepted source was in northern Peru. If the revision holds, the length of the Amazon would exceed that of the Nile by roughly 60 miles (105 km).  However the claim is likely to be contested.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Man-eating piranha are actually cowards]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Despite their reputations as aggressive blood-thirsty carnivores, piranha schooling behavior is a defensive measure to protect against predators rather than an offensive hunting maneuver, reports new research presented at the Royal Society's summer science exhibition in London.  Piranhas face many predators in their Amazon habitat, including caiman, freshwater dolphins, and giant fish like the pirarucu or arapaima.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0701-piranha.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is the Amazon longer than the Nile?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazilian researchers claim they have evidence proving that the Amazon is the longest river in the world, some 65 miles (105 km) longer than the Nile, reports BBC News.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0618-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil debates $11B Amazon dam project]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The eternal tension between Brazil's need for economic growth and the damage that can cause to the environment are nowhere more visible than here in this corner of the western Amazon. Now a proposal to build an $11 billion hydroelectric project here on the Madeira River, which may have the world's most diverse fish stocks, has set off a new controversy.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0610-iht.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon tribe blocks major Brazilian highway]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Indigenous Amazonians have blocked a major highway in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to protest a series of hydroelectric dams planned on the Xingu river, one of the Amazon's largest tributaries, according to Brazzil Mag and Survival International.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0608-xingu.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can cattle ranchers and soy farmers save the Amazon?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[John Cain Carter, a Texas rancher who moved to the heart of the Amazon 11 years ago and founded what is perhaps the most innovative organization working in the Amazon, Alianca da Terra, believes the only way to save the Amazon is through the market.  Carter says that by giving producers incentives to reduce their impact on the forest, the market can succeed where conservation efforts have failed.  What is most remarkable about Alianca's system is that it has the potential to be applied to any commodity anywhere in the world. That means palm oil in Borneo could be certified just as easily as sugar cane in Brazil or sheep in New Zealand.  By addressing the supply chain, tracing agricultural products back to the specific fields where they were produced, the system offers perhaps the best market-based solution to combating deforestation.  Combining these approaches with large-scale land conservation and scientific research offers what may be the best hope for saving the Amazon.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0607-carter_interview.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Globalization could save the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon basin is home to the world's largest rainforest, an ecosystem that supports perhaps 30 percent of the world's terrestrial species, stores vast amounts of carbon, and exerts considerable influence on global weather patterns and climate. Few would dispute that it is one of the planet's most important landscapes. Despite its scale, the Amazon is also one of the fastest changing ecosystems, largely as a result of human activities, including deforestation, forest fires, and, increasingly, climate change. Few people understand these impacts better than Dr. Daniel Nepstad, one of the world's foremost experts on the Amazon rainforest. Now head of the Woods Hole Research Center's Amazon program in Belem, Brazil, Nepstad has spent more than 23 years in the Amazon, studying subjects ranging from forest fires and forest management policy to sustainable development. Nepstad says the Amazon is presently at a point unlike any he's ever seen, one where there are unparalleled risks and opportunities. While he's hopeful about some of the trends, he knows the Amazon faces difficult and immediate challenges.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Man swims entire length of Amazon river]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Slovenian marathon swimmer Martin Strel became the first person to swim the entire length of the Amazon River Saturday when he arrived in Belem, Brazil. Strel was immediately taken to the hospital in critical condition but is now recovering in a local hotel.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0409-swim.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon river flowed into the Pacific millions of years ago]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new study adds further evidence the theory that the world's largest river, the Amazon, once flowed in the opposite direction, emptying into the Pacific Ocean. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) discovered "ancient mineral grains" in the central Amazon that could only have originated in now-eroded mountains that once existed in the central and eastern South America, not the more recently formed Andes in the west]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1024-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon drought extends into second year]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The drought in the Amazon rainforest looks to be extending into a second year.  Last week Brazil's government declared a state of emergency across more than 250 towns in the region due to lack of rainfall.  Last year's drought, which left rivers dry, stranded thousands of villagers, and put regional commerce at a standstill, was the worst on record.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0811-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon Port Pits Farmers Vs. Rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When U.S. grain giant Cargill opened a $20 million port in this sleepy Amazon River city three years ago, it expected to cash in on the rising global demand for soybeans that had become Brazil's richest agricultural export.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0718-ap.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Amazon: Fisherman's paradise]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The following is an update from The Wilderness Classroom's expedition to the Peruvian rainforest.  This morning, I joined Warren and our new guide, Ramon, for a paddle in search of animals. At Lake El Dorado, you do not have to go far to find animals. It seemed like everywhere we looked we found something new to look at.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Flooded forest habitat in the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The following is an update from The Wilderness Classroom's expedition to the Peruvian rainforest.  We are near the end of our journey through the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, and we have experienced so many new sights and sounds that it is hard to recount all of them in our updates. Each week we've focused on a different topic to pass on the information that we are gathering for you. This week we will focus on habitat.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0502-wc16.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rivers are the highways of the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rivers are the highways of the Amazon. Instead of driving cars and trucks, people use use boats to travel from place to place. Launchas are large boats powered by strong engines that travel up and down all the major rivers in the Amazon Basin. We have spent the last two day nights and two night on a launcha that is traveling up the Amazon River at about 10 miles an hour.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0411-wc.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Exploring the Flooded Streets of Iquitos, Peru]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Belen is on the edge of the large city of Iquitos. Belen is unique because much of the city is covered in water for most of the year. From January to May the streets, soccer fields, and gardens are underwater. Many of the houses are built on rafts that float up and down as the river rises and falls. Other houses are built on stilts so that the water does not cover the house when the water rises. The floating city was full of life: people paddling canoes, children swimming and laughing, people going about their daily lives in houses floating on the Amazon River.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0409-wc.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil to flood Amazon rainforest for hydroelectric power]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil's plans to dam two rivers in the Amazon basin to generate power threaten a treasure trove of animals and plants in a region with one of the world'apos;apos;s richest arrays of wildlife, environmentalists say.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0317-reuters.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon drought continues, worst on record]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The worst drought ever recorded in the Amazon continues according to an update from The New York Times. The drought has turned rivers into grassy mud flats, killed tens of millions of fish, stranded hundreds of communities, and brought disease and economic despair to the region.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1211-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon at record low -- communities isolated, commerce stalled]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon River in Peru and parts of Brazil is at its lowest level in 30 years of record keeping. While variable water levels are characteristic of the Amazon river ecosystem, the increasingly extreme fluctuations are of great concern. Low water levels are wreaking havoc on the shipping industry in the region. In Iquitos, a city in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon which is only accessible by plane or boat, ships and barges are having difficulty navigating the river, resulting in serious shipping delays. Local officials in Peru are blaming deforestation of the upper reaches of the Amazon in the Andes for the fall in river levels, although it is likely that larger forces are at least equally important.  Warmer ocean surface temperatures in the Pacific and low sunspot activity is also affecting weather in the region, while warming in the north Atlantic -- which has helped trigger an unusually strong and destructive hurricane season -- may be preventing the formation of rain clouds over the Amazon Basin.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1011-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Extreme drought drops Amazon river to record low levels]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon River in Peru and parts of Brazil is at its lowest level in 30 years of record keeping. While variable water levels are characteristic of the Amazon river ecosystem, the increasingly extreme fluctuations are of great concern. Low water levels are wreaking havoc on the shipping industry in the region. In Iquitos, a city in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon which is only accessible by plane or boat, ships and barges are having difficulty navigating the river, resulting in serious shipping delays. Local officials in Peru are blaming deforestation of the upper reaches of the Amazon in the Andes for the fall in river levels, although it is likely that larger forces are at least equally important. Warmer ocean surface temperatures in the Pacific and low sunspot activity is also affecting weather in the region. Brazilian meteorologists have discounted the theory that the severe hurricane season off the US Gulf coast has impacted the availability of moisture in the Amazon.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1007-reuters-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Weight of flooded Amazon river causes Earth to sink 3 inches]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As the Amazon River floods every year, a sizeable portion of South America sinks several inches because of the extra weight -- and then rises again as the waters recede, a study has found.  This annual rise and fall of earth's crust is the largest ever detected, and it may one day help scientists tally the total amount of water on Earth.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1005-osu.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon river at record low levels; deforestation blamed]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon River in Peru is at its lowest level in 30 years of record keeping according to a report in Peruvian daily newspaper El Comercio. Local officials say deforestation is the likely culprit of the low water levels.  While variable water levels are characteristic of the Amazon river ecosystem, the increasingly extreme fluctuations are of great concern.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0930-amazon_river.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rivers, Streams, and Creeks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tropical rainforest rivers are often overwhelming to the first-time visitor because of their size and abundance. Even more perplexing is the ability of tropical rivers to fork into large branches, forming giant islands that can be easily confused with the mainland. It is sometimes nearly impossible to distinguish which is the main fork of the river.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0603.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Flooding, Low Water, High Water]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Seasonal flooding is characteristic of many tropical rivers, although few compare to the so-called igapo (swamp forest) and varzea (flooded forest) of the Amazon River Basin, where large tracts of rainforest are inundated to depths of 40 feet during seasonal flooding. The lowest flood stage occurs in August and September, while the highest stage occurs in April and May. Tributaries that drain the Guyana Shield flood in June, while the tributaries that drain the Brazilian Shield flood in March or April. Since the peak rainy seasons are out of phase, the peak discharges of left bank (Guyana shield) and right bank (Brazilian shield) rivers are somewhat offset, having the effect of moderating high and low water levels on the main stream, but tributaries can have extreme variations..]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0604.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Floating Meadows]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Floating plants have advantages over submerged plants in that they always have access to sunlight and can readily use the nutrients of whitewater rivers. Submerged plants have difficulty capturing enough sunlight in the muddy waters to carry out sufficient photosynthesis..]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0605.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Riverside wildlife in the Rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Few riverine (bank) plant species will be found in the forest. These tend to resemble gap-colonizers and edge species that grow well in the strong sunlight of open areas. There is not a great diversity of riverside plant species, and rivers are often bordered by walls of vines which cover trees because of the access to bright tropical sunlight. The presence of this thick vegetation is largely why early explorers in the Amazon referred to the rainforest as an &quot;impenetrable jungle.&quot;.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0606.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[River Types]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[First-time visitors to the Amazon or other large tropical rivers are often shocked to see the muddy brown, almost polluted-looking water. However, this color results not from sewage or pollution, but from the heavy sediment load of the water. Each day, tons of sediment are washed into rainforest rivers from the mountains and from run-off of surrounding forest areas due to heavy tropical rains. The sediment load is even greater where deforestation has left the soils unprotected and massive amounts of topsoil are eroded by the rains.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0602.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Biogeographical Forest Realms--Where Rainforests Are Located]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The majority of tropical rainforests are found in four biogeographic realms: the Afrotropical (mainland Africa, Madagascar, and scattered islands), the Australian (Australia, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands), the Indomalayan (India, Sri Lanka, mainland Asia, and Southeast Asia), and the Neotropical (South America, Central America, and the Caribbean islands).]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0102.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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