Mercury poisoning can be found almost anywhere, including places considered remote, like the Amazon River basin in Brazil.
In 2001, while sailing up the Amazon River on an environmental expedition, he was attacked and murdered by robbers.
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River dolphins of that colour can be spotted in the Amazon River.
Occidental Petroleum, for example, is involved in a major human rights and environmental contamination lawsuit regarding the pollution of indigenous land and the Amazon River.
At the end of September, one family discovered that loggers had secretly built a track into the back of their land so they could take out timber by barge along a tributary of the Amazon River.
In fact, PANGAEA had just arrived in Annapolis after completing a traverse of the Northwest Passage from the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, and is on her way to Florida to explore the Everglades before an expedition next year far up the Amazon River.
Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, told the Brazilian network TV Globo that today it could already be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.
At the time, Dilma was the Minister of Mines and Energy and her major project on the books was the 11, 200 megawatt Belo Monte dam, slated to be built along the Xingu River in the Amazon state of Para.
The Enawene Nawe people live in the basin of the Juruena River in the southern Amazon rainforest.
The dam calls for diversion of up to 100 kilometers of the Xingu, an Amazon River tributary.
The dam is to be built on the Xingu River in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
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Teddy Roosevelt, during his epic 1913-14 trip down the Amazon's uncharted River of Doubt, sought unbounded natural frontier.
The Mekong is home to over 1, 200 different species of fish, more than any other river save the Amazon and the Congo.
Belo Monte is to be built on the Xingu River in the Amazon, home to virgin rainforest and around 2, 500 natives.
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The solar-powered Amazon Yarapa River Lodge has designated some land as a natural preserve and partnered with Cornell University to build a field laboratory.
The dam has been hit by several injunctions from federal prosecutors in the state of Para, where the dam is being built on the Xingu River, an Amazon tributary.
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In a letter to public attorneys general on Tuesday, the Arara tribe said that they were concerned about the quality of potable water derived from the Xingu River, an Amazon tributary.
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When Belo gets built, around 20, 000 will have to relocate, hundreds of acres of virgin forest will be flooded, and the Amazon tributary, the Xingu River, will be diverted to feed the turbines that will potentially generate 11, 200 megawatts of electricity if all goes swimmingly well.
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This newfound reptile appears to be the first known freshwater mosasaur, an animal comparable to modern river dolphins now seen in the Amazon, Ganges and Yangtze rivers.
For example, when Texaco dumped oil sludge into the river in a remote Amazon community, it got away with it for decades because it was so remote and the population affected was so poor.
Amazon, at the time, was nothing more than a river in South America.
Norte Energia said Friday morning that it had created a permanent commission with affected people along the Xingu River, most of them small property owners, farmers and a director of one Amazon based sustainable development research center.
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