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Riverside families in the Amazon change meals as mercury poisons staple fish
By Karla Mendes LAGO DO PURUZINHO/KARIPUNA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY/CALAMA, Brazil — The Lake Puruzinho community sits on a clear ...
They account for 15% of all known species worldwide – about 15 percent of all known species in the world. Approximately ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. In a groundbreaking expedition, researchers from Harvard and Amazonas State University began monitoring water quality and mercury contamination in ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Following proof of the presence of microplastics in Amazonian rivers, streams and lakes, researchers are investigating how these particles affect ...
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How to protect yourself from the Amazon’s most feared fish
On the waters of the Amazon, an ancient world flows below your feet. But make a wrong move, and part of this world may end up ...
The Amazon River basin is larger than any other on the planet, covering an expanse of over six million square kilometres and is home to a vast abundance and variety of freshwater fish species. 1 While ...
When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...
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