Expedition to hunt Amazon 'yeti'
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Heart of barkingness A team of cryptozoologists is headed for the South American jungle to track down a legendary apeman said to terrorise villages and tear out cattle tongues.â¦
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By LARRY ROHTER  By LARRY ROHTER   New York Times News Service  KYOWA, Brazil  As the Karitiana Indians remember it, the first researchers to draw their blood came here in the late 1970s, shortly after their Amazon tribe began sustained contact with the outside world.
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Internet sleuths using satellite imaging software such as Google Earth have joined the hunt for missing adventurer Steve Fossett, officials said Tuesday.
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Networking project in the Amazon turns up unknown amphibian, proving Negroponte right in more ways than one.
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Radio frequency identification tags, usually used to track commercial products, are helping researchers study the movements of Amazonian peccaries.
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By MICHAEL ASTOR ELDORADO DO JUMA, Brazil - It's a gold rush in the Amazon jungle, driven by the Internet.
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Archaeologists are set to begin an expedition this month in hopes of finding a Spanish ship that wrecked along the jagged reefs off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841 carrying a cargo of African slaves.
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Los Angeles Times - IQUITOS, Peru &#8212; A few miles downriver from this city in the western Amazon jungle, Andres Alvarado hops off a boat and walks up a muddy path to a hollowed-out log resting on a wooden stand. He beats the log with a stick, sending a series of low-pitched tones into the rain forest.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Grieving relatives of 155 people killed in Brazil's worst aviation disaster arrived in the Amazon on Monday to fly over the wreckage as searchers tried to recover corpses in the dense jungle.
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A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Internet giant Google to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
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In the Agua Boa, an upper tributary of the Amazon near the Venezuelan border in Brazil, fly fishing for peacock bass is a favorite pastime.
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Travel: Under siege from oil companies and loggers, the Huaorani of Ecuador are fighting back - through ecotourism.
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Following the disappearance of Steve Fossett, Amazon.com and Google joined forces to coordinate a âdistributed searchâ for the millionaire aviator and adventurer. Welcome to the new world of search and rescue.
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A PREVIOUSLY undiscovered tribe of Indians has been located in a remote Amazon region 1,200 miles north-west of Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian authorities said today.  (c) 2007 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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PACHACAMAC, Peru  - A powerful hallucinogenic vine, long revered by Amazon Indians as a tool for peering deep into the psyche, is drawing interest from urban Peruvians and enticing foreign visitors to Peru.
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A symbol of abundance to the rest of the world, the Amazon is experiencing a crisis of overfishing.
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Teams search for adventurer's aircraft Rescue teams are scouring tracts of Nevada in the hope of locating missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fosset, who took off on Monday in a single-engined aircraft to scout possible locations for a planned attempt on the world land-speed record, AP reports.â¦