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Szucs didn’t make artistic maps until a decade into his cartography career. While volunteering at a marine environmental research NGO in Portugal, he began to experiment in his free time with open-source software commonly used by cartographers to generate data visualizations. Through t...
While urban river restoration has become mainstream in the Global North, it remains scarce in Latin America, where most literature focuses on water quality
The Guadiana River as seen from space. Portugal is on the right and Spain is on the left. Photo: International Space Station, NASA, public domain. Paraná River and the Argentina–Paraguay border TheParaná Riveris South America’s second longest river. The The Paraná River is South America...
Douro River itineraries in Portugal lead to charming villages, deep gorges and the lush vineyards that produce the country's famous port wine. And in Italy, you might enjoy a gondola ride through Venice's picturesque canals before cruising the Po River to Bologna, northern Italy's culinary ...
Nile – Cairo (Egypt), Khartoum (Sudan) Rio de la Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina), Montevideo (Uruguay) Seine – Paris (France) Tagus – Lisbon (Portugal) Thames – London (U.K) Tiber – Rome (Italy) Tigris – Baghdad (Iraq) ...
Fig. 1: Location map of oceanographic moorings and telecommunication cables that recorded turbidity currents in 2019–21 in the Congo Canyon and Channel, offshore from the mouth of the Congo River in West Africa. AMap of the entire array with mooring (e.g., M1 or A2) and cable (e.g.,...
, taken in 1928 by an unidentified American sailor, detail a rare glimpse of the German paddler Captain Franz Romer and his month-long visit to St. Thomas. Romer had just completed “a harrowing 58-day crossing of the Atlantic in his 21-foot Klepper kayak” from Lisbon, Portugal....
The ecological conservation of large rivers is impossible unless immediate attention is given to protecting their small tributaries at local levels. The natural boundaries of large river basins are shrinking because their tributaries and streams of diffe
Douro River itineraries in Portugal lead to charming villages, deep gorges and the lush vineyards that produce the country's famous port wine. And in Italy, you might enjoy a gondola ride through Venice's picturesque canals before cruising the Po River to Bologna, northern Italy's culinary ...