Science news articles about 'amazon river basin'

... of deforestation beyond which was originally thought." Roughly the size of the 48 contiguous states, the Amazon River Basin is home to the world's largest rainforest, most of it in Brazil, and is the ...

... being introduced to the UK. The fish, of a species more accustomed to the Amazon river basin, was discovered in the river Torridge by Environment Agency workers conducting a wildlife survey. Eddie ...

... river basin water levels and, hopefully, better predict future water storage and runoff ... stored, released, and sloshes about within the Amazon river basin.  They compared the data with simulations. read ...

... TOPEX/Poseidon data from the 1997 Red River flood in the upper Midwest of the United States ... TOPEX/Poseidon data for a flood in the Amazon River Basin, and with ENVISAT data for a flood in southwestern ...

... occurred between one and seven million years ago, when the modern tropical rainforest of the Amazon River basin was forming. "There was a repeated dispersal of frogs from the foothills of the Andes ...