Scientists Name Amazon the Longest River
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A group of Brazilian scientists recently said they have scientifically proven that South America's Amazon River is officially the world's longest river.
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We sift through the best that South America's largest country has to offer.
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John Maringouin is  filming a documentary about endurance swimmer Martin Strel, who  began a planned, 70-day swim Thursday, starting at the source  of the Amazon River in Peru and following the river until it  meets the Atlantic Ocean at Belem, Brazil.
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Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern Amazon when he was 7. First they felled the mahogany. Then they returned to cut the cedars. By the time they came back for other hardwoods, there was little left of the forest.
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Scientists interested in the search for life on other planets often spend their time hunting for novel life forms and unique ecosystems here on Earth. The RÃÂ­o Tinto, a river in Spain with highly acidic water the color of red wine, has one group of researchers intrigued about what might be living underground.
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U.S. scientists are studying the environmental impact unique patterns of deforestation are imposing on the land and climate of Rondonia, Brazil.  Rondonia is in the Amazonian region where rural development projects have resulted in construction of orthogonal road networks.
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HELSINKI, Nov 5 (IPS) - In Brazil rubber tappers living in the Amazon  forest are locked in deadly conflicts with timber loggers and big  agribusiness companies, with up to ten activists killed every  year, NGOs working in the country say.
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China's Yellow River choking on pollution    ZHENGZHOU, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Pollution of the Yellow River, China's second longest river after the Yangtze, is getting worse, with over 66 percent of the water undrinkable, according to a newly released report on Yellow River Water Resources.
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By Staff Reports  Members of Brazils Kayapo tribe attend a ceremony Wednesday at the Federation of the Industries of the State of Sao Paulo, where they received the SmartWood certificate for management of 3.7 million acres of Amazon rain forest.  (c) 2006 Tulsa World.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Scientists have documented natural spawning by the endangered pallid sturgeon in the Missouri River.  They had suspected the six dams in the Dakotas and Montana kept the fish from spawning by altering flow, temperature and sediment content.
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The Panama Canal linked more than the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: it also connected rivers that had been separated by the Continental Divide.
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NE China water diversion tunnel to set new world record    SHENYANG, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- A water diversion tunnel under construction in northeast China is set to become the world's longest manmade tunnel, and is currently less than four kilometers short of the record.
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The San Joaquin River, once California's second longest, will be reborn in a massive, 20-year plan, officials say.  In the past 60 years, the San Joaquin has been drained dry for agriculture purposes.
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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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Physicists have successfully teleported particles of light over a distance of 600m across the River Danube in Austria, the journal Nature reports.
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Silt-washing operation begins in Yellow River    ZHENGZHOU, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The annual operation of flushing silt from the ailing Yellow River, China's second longest waterway, into the Bohai Sea, began on Tuesday.
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A symbol of abundance to the rest of the world, the Amazon is experiencing a crisis of overfishing.