A flat-topped peak gives researchers a chance to identify new species and unlock secrets of evolution. The biggest challenge: getting there.
Pretty Fish They see many beautiful fish in the river, but also some piranhas. They climb onto a wooden boat and find a compass and a map on it. Monkey Trouble They use the compass and the map to find the direction...
with approximately 50 km between each sampling site and accessible by the Madre de Dios River (Fig.2A). We selected two sites without any mining (Boca Manu and Chilive, approximately 100 and 50 km from ASGM, respectively
Catchment boundaries corresponding to each sample site were determined using a high-resolution (~500 m) stream drainage direction map for the Amazon River basin71. Supplementary Fig.1c, d was created with ArcMap 10.6, relief shade from Natural Earth dataset (http://www.naturalearthdata.com),...
A large amount of dust from the Sahara reaches the Amazon Basin, as observed with satellite imagery. This dust is thought to carry micronutrients that could help fertilize the rainforest. However, considering different atmospheric transport conditions, d
In the Amazon basin, particles containing mixed sodium salts are routinely observed and are attributed to marine aerosols transported from the Atlantic Ocean. Using chemical imaging analysis, we show that, during the wet season, fungal spores emitted by
Current high deforestation rates are found at the central basin, mainly in the Tapajós and Madeira River sub-basins in southwestern Pará and southern Amazonas, respectively (Walker et al.2019; Brazil, INPE Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais2020). Pará State continues to have Amazonia’s...
The Amazon River has the highest discharge in the world. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of the research on the interaction between river-diluted water and the ocean. This study used the remote sensing data (2008–2017) of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the...
data from the Brazilian municipality of Paragominas to produce four maps, one each of soil texture, slope, floodplains, and hydrography, that we then combined into a single land suitability map. This map has been incorporated into a spatial database, which also contains information on land use...
In the Amazon basin, rainfall is influenced by annual changes in the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ) over the Andean region, as well as in certain years by the effects of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) [2]. Specifically for the...