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Tag Archives: America
Earth Report – Grounds for Hope
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Central, coffee, Earth, environment, farming, Guatemala, IUCN, Land, management, Mexico, organic, pollution, report, river, sustainable, tve, water
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PaddleToTheAmazon.com
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, amazon, America, Canoe, Caruso, Chris, Columbia, Cops, Dana, Don, Excitement, expedition, explorers, FInn, Forde, From, heroes, Huckleberry, impossible, indians, LFTN, longest, Lost, Mexico, Military, mosquito, normal, Paddle, Police, Robinson, Sawyer, Soldiers, South, Starkell, States, the, to, Tom, travel, trip, United
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Pink Dolphin
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, America, Dolphin, Orinoco, pink, Rainforest, river, South
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Going Over the Edge at Niagara’s Rainbow Falls – Horrible Tragedy
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged 1985, accident, America, Canada, Daredevils, Falls, Jump, Medication, Miracle, News, Niagara, Niagra, Rainbow, Rescue
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Mission – Boundaries Unlimited, Inc Ministry Overview
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Boundaries, Brazil, Mission, Missionaries, OneTrueMedia, South, Unlimited
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Officials in US Look for Fixes to Carp Problems
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, … Continue reading
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The Mighty Amazon & River Dolphins -Wild South America – BBC
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 … Continue reading