Since the 1990s agriculture, pollution and poor land management have been taking a severe toll on the river system on the Mexico/Guatemala border. A major culprit is the region’s economically-important coffee growing industry. But recently there have been big changes in the way much of this coffee is grown, changes driven by the coffee industry [...]
Their plan was surprisingly simple, their journey anything but.
Don Starkell and his two sons, Dana and Jeff, would paddle and portage south to the Mississippi River system along the Gulf of Mexico and on to the head of the Amazon. Battling a barrage of internal and external conflicts, their epic canoe trip threatens to take [...]
The Pink Dolphin lives in the Amazon Rainforest. It is usually found in the tributaries and main rivers of the Orinoco River systems in South America. This animal can stay summerged up to fifteen minutes in the rivers. Males sleep just below the surface and they come up to breathe as the reflex. The Pink [...]
Going Over the Edge at Niagara’s Rainbow Falls – also known as Niagara’s American Falls: Neither suicide nor daredevil, a horrible tragedy by a man who over medicated.
I was contacted by this man’s family. He was a pharmacist, named Robert Ahrens, from the Tonawanda, NY. area. His body was recovered and medication found [...]
Paul & Jan Scott have been volunteer missionaries to Santarem, Brazil, living there since March 2002. This is an overview of the work being done in Santarem and along the Amazon River System.
Background Music: A New Hallelujah [feat. the African Children's Choir], Michael W. Smith
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com
Last week our subject was illegal fishing. Now we report on two cases where fish are both the victims and the offenders.
The first involves two kinds of Asian carp, bighead and silver.
They can grow more than a meter long and weigh up to forty-five [...]
Glenn Beck from Fox News talks about his 40 seconds research to compare the healthcare system between The United Stated of America and India
In support of health care reform, SEIU’s website recently highlighted the case of Karlyn Zimbelman, an American who received successful medical treatment abroad because she couldn’t foot the $40,000 bill for hip [...]
Running 4000 miles from the Andes to the Ocean, The Amazon carries a fifth of all the river water on the planet. Learn more about the mighty Amazon river and its weird and wonderful inhabitants in this brilliant wildlife video from BBC nature show ‘Wild South America’.
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