It’s the world’s third largest freshwater outlet to the ocean, after the Amazon and the Congo ... at the western end of the 200-mile-wide Ganges River Delta. Sagar sits on the Bay of Bengal ...

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Brazil's environmental authority has approved one of the final requirements for state-run oil company Petrobras to proceed ...

A deadly river that boils without volcanoes, hidden deep in Peru’s jungle. Worshipped by shamans, feared by scientists—Shanay-Timpishka is real, and it may be a glimpse into Earth’s future.

The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará ...

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Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a key step that could soon allow Petrobras, the nation’s state oil company, to ...

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A sprawling homeless encampment off Thousand Acres Trail in the Sandy River Delta park is his home. "I've been here about 20 years," he said. You don't have to take his word for it. The address ...

One early morning in late April, with a supermoon still in the sky, he trekked dozens of miles through the mud up the Mearim River, at the eastern tip of the Amazon, to surf the country's biggest ...

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