Deep in the lush, untamed heart of the Amazon rainforest lies a river that seems torn straight from the pages of a fantasy ...

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It’s even been called the “Amazon of the North ... after which the massive rainforest is named. “Venture into a realm where thousand-year-old trees stand tall, unique plants and animals inhabit the ...

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Credit: Simon Topp. In the Amazon, gold mining is a thriving business, pushing deep into the rainforest and indigenous lands. Small-scale operations set up primarily illicitly and operated in the ...

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31 (IPS) - Indigenous leaders from the Amazon rain forest want the US government to revoke a patent issued to a US company for a plant used in sacred ceremonies by indigenous people ...

Nearly 70 percent of these Amazon blocks are either still under study or available for market bidding, meaning they remain unproductive. In contrast, 60 percent of around 2,250 South American blocks ...

‘Loss and degradation of native plant and animal habitat by invasion of escaped garden plants, including aquatic plants’ was listed as a key threatening process in January 2010 under the Commonwealth ...

Researchers found that biodiversity in two-thirds of animals and plants around the globe was declining. "We know that genetic diversity is what enables populations and species to adapt to future ...