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What’s the world’s longest river? New expedition aims to settle the debate once and for all

But the longest, we will see.” A 7,000-kilometer expedition The planned five-month-long expedition, due to set off in April 2024, aims to voyage the Amazon’s full length, using modern river-mapping ...
Forbes

The Amazon: Both Forest And River Are Critical To Climate Solutions

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...
The New York Times

A Changing Climate Is Scorching the World’s Biggest River

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway. As a punishing drought ...
NPR

Colombia's lone Amazon port faces drying river and rising tensions with Peru

LETICIA, Colombia — The jungle town of Leticia provides Colombia's only access to the Amazon River. But as the river changes course the town could soon be left high and dry and that's fueling a border ...
CNN

What’s the world’s longest river? New expedition aims to settle the debate once and for all

In today’s modern age, it might be fair to assume that science has decisively answered some of the bigger questions regarding the natural world – or at least those dependent upon sheer physical ...