By Kevin Damasio Mariazinha Baré spent her childhood bathing and playing in the Upper Negro River. Born and raised on the ...
"Often, these risks vs. benefits are looked at in siloes." Researchers uncover new information about fish that may affect ...
The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of illegal gold mining in the Amazon, which destroys the riverbeds ...
Smaller fish species are more nutritious, lower in mercury and less susceptible to overfishing, a Cornell-led research team has found. The team's study was conducted in the Amazon River ...
This model used data from the “Mercury Observatory” on the distribution and accumulation of the metal in the four basins of the Tapajós River (Pará, Mato Grosso, and Amazonas); the Xingu ...
The researchers analyzed nutritional value, mercury content, price and abundance for 59 fish species in the Amazon River. They found that smaller species that are more common and less expensive ...