Amazon river 'longer than Nile'
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Scientists in Brazil claim to have established that the Amazon, not the Nile, is the longest river in the world.
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The Amazon is the home of writers who, despite the vast canvas before them and their own considerable talent, have had problems making their voices heard beyond the jungle.
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By Gregory Richards, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 8--NORFOLK -- It's 185 feet long and weighs about 700 tons.   Yet the vessel, named the Flint River, was high over the Elizabeth  River's brown waters Wednesday morning.
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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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EJIDO LA LAGUNA, Mexico  - Julian Rosales' farm is within a stone's throw of one of North America's biggest rivers, but the Mexican landowner fears he will not be able to sow his crops next year for lack of water.
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Some are challenging earlier ideas about how water naturally flows because the streams studied then were not ânatural archetypesâ but rather the artifacts of 18th and 19th century dam-building and deforestation.
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LETICIA, Colombia -- The presidents of Colombia and Brazil met on their Amazon jungle border yesterday to discuss the dispute between Colombia and Venezuela, sparked by the abduction of a Marxist guerrilla on Venezuelan soil.
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Rubber tappers,  fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined  environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion  hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main  tributaries.
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A reported jump in the rate of Amazon deforestation is unproven despite a government crackdown on tree cutting, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in comments published Thursday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Rubber tappers, fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main tributaries.
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A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection Monday in a region infamous for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers and environmentalists.
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Â· Thames and Severn rivers set to rise further Â· Battle to protect power supplies
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A Dutch angler got a big surprise when he caught a carnivorous piranha, native to Brazil's mighty Amazon river, in a river in the north of the Netherlands, ANP news agency reported.
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Brazil gives an initial green light to the construction of two hydro-electric dams on the Amazon River.
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By Andrew Hay URUCU, Brazil  - A tower of orange flame risesabove the Amazon jungle, firing the energy goals of theBrazilian government.
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IQUITOS, Peru -- 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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By Yomi S. Wronge, MEDIA NEWS  The state's second-longest river will be brought back to life after 60 years of being drained dry for Central Valley agriculture, under a settlement filed Wednesday in federal court.